Debug: more detail in dkim processing
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Since Exim version 4.90
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11JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
12 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
13 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
14 extant use locations.
15
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16JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
17 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
18
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19JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
20 Previously only the last row was returned.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
23 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
24 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
25 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
26 input.
27
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28JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
29 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
30 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
31 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
32 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
33 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
34 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
35 Main pool for expansions.
36 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
37 active in the testsuite.
38 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
39
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40JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
41 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
42 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
43 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
44 round-robin DNS.
45
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46JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
47 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
48 failure response.
49
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50JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
51 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
52 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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54JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
55 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
56 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 57
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58JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
59 rows affected is given instead).
60
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61JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
62 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
63
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64JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
65 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
66 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
67 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
68 for all multi-message initiating connections.
69
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70JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
71 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
72 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
73
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74JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
75 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
76 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
77 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
78 separate.
79
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80JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
81 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
82 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
83 fake-reject.
84
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85HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
86
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87JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
88 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
89
aab9a843 90PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 91 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 92 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 93
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94JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
95 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
96 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
97 and send a quit.
98
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100Exim version 4.90
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102
103JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
104 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
105 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
106 pairs of long lines into single ones.
107
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108PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
109 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
110
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111JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
112 This permits better logging.
113
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114JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
115 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
116 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
117 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
118 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 119 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 120
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121JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
122 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
123 "exiwhat" output.
124
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125PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
126 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
127 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
128
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129JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
130 than 255 are no longer allowed.
131
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132JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
133 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
134 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
135 client, there is no benefit for these.
136 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
137 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
138 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
139 is used (3.2.4 +).
140
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141PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
142 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
143
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144JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
145 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
146 erroneously found still-pending ones.
147
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148JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
149 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
150
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151JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
152 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
153 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
154 signature and again for transmission.
155
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156JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
157 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 158 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 159
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160JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
161 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
162 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
163 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
164 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
165 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
166 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
167
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168JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
169 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
170 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 171 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 172
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173PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
174 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
175 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
176 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
177 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
178 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
179 processing options.
180
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181JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
182 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
183 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
184 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
185 connections.
925ac8e4 186
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187PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
188 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
189 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
190 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
191 versions.
192
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193JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
194 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
195 inaccessible.
196
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197JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
198 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
199 banner-time rejection.
200
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201JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
202 callout/hold.
203
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204PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
205 is the name of a transport.
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206 Fixes bug 2140.
207
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208HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
209
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210JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
211 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
212
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213JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
214 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
215 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
216 during compilation.
217
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218JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
219 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
220 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 221 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 222
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223JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
224 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
225 initial verify call returned a defer.
226
ad1a76fe 227JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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228 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
229
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230JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
231 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
232
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233JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
234 if present. Previously it was ignored.
235
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236JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
237 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
238
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239JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
240 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
241 extensible.
242
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243PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
244 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
245
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246PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
247 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
248 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
249
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250JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
251 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
252 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
253 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
254
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255HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
256 and confused the parent.
257
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258JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
259 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
260
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261JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
262 for log purposes.
263
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264JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
265 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
266 out-of-order delivery.
267
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268JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
269 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
270 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
271 error for the HELO.
272
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273JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
274 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
275 desynchronisation.
276
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277JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
278 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
279 one run was done. Bug 2189.
280
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281JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
282 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
283 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
284 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
285 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
286 message is still "Temporary local problem".
287
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288JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
289 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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290 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
291
292HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
293 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
294 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 295
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296JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
297 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
298 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
299 though a different problem.
300
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9427e879 305JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 306 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 307
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308JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
309
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310PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
311 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
312
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313JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
314 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
315
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316JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
317 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
318 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
319 before acknowledging the chunk.
320
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321PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
322 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
323 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
324
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325JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
326 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
327 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
328 should.
329
330JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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331 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
332 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 333
bd8fbe36 334JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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335 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
336
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337JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
338 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
339 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
340 body hash calculated value.
341
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342JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
343 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
344 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
345
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346JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
347
348JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
349 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
350
351JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
352 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
353 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
354
355JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
356 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
357 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
358 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
359 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
360 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
361
362JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
363 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
364 past that check, despite the cost.
365
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366JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
367 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
368 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
369
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370PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
371 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
372 TLS library to consume.
373
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374PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
375
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376PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
377
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378JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
379 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
380 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
381 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
382 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
383 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
384 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
385
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386PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
387
388PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
389
390PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
391 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
392 should be warning-free.
393
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394JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
395
396HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
397 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
398
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399HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
400 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
401 general solution here.
402
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403PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
404 already-broken messages in the queue.
405
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406JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
407
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408JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
409
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414JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
415 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 416
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417JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
418 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
419 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
420
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421JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
422 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
423 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
424 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
425 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
426 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
427 if one fails this test.
428 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
429 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
430
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431JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
432 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
433
23bb6982 434JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 435 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 436
0bd1b1ed 437JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 438 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 439
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440JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
441 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
442
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443JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
444 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
445
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446JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
447
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448JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
449 certificate).
450
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451JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
452 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
453 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
454 connection after a verify cache hit.
455 Do not update it with the verify result either.
456
457JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
458 when routing results in more than one destination address.
459
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460JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
461 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
462 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
463 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
464 when the cutthrough connection is made).
465
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466JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
467 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
468
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469JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
470 Previously they were not counted.
471
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472JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
473 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
474 that needed the lookup.
475
4c04137d 476JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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477 distinguished as "(=".
478
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479JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
480 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
481
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482JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
483
484JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
485 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 486
4c04137d 487JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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488 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
489
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490JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
491 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
492 compatible.
493
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494JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
495 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
496 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
497 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
498
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499JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
500
f59aaaaa 501JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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502 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
503 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 504
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505JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
506 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
507 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
508 be lost.
509
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510JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
511 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
512 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
513 itself :(
514
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515JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
516 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
517 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
518
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519JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
520 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
521 options.
522
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523JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
524
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525PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
526 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
527
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528PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
529 are not in the system include path.
530
ad7fc6eb 531JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 532 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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533 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
534 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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536JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
537 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
538 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
539
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540JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
541
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542HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
543 an incoming connection.
544
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545HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
546 to rspamd.
547
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548HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
549 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 550
87cb4a16 551JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 552 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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553
554
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558JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
559 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
560 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
561 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 562
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563TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
564 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
565
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566TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
567 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
568 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
569 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
570 outgoing I= field.
571
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572JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
573 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
574 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
575 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
576 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
577 check on the next write.
578
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579HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
580 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
581 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
582 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
583 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
584
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585JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
586 mime_regex ACL conditions.
587
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588JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
589 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
590 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
591
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592JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
593 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
594 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
595 an authenticate fail is not an error.
596
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597HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
598 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
599
4c04137d 600JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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601 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
602
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603JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
604 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
605 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
606 distinct.
607
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608JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
609
610JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
611
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612JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
613
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614JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
615 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
616
98b98887 617JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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618 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
619
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620JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
621
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622JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
623 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
624
625JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
626
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627JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
628 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
629
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630JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
631
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632JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
633 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 634 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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635 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
636 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
637 they will retry in-clear.
638 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
639 at installation time.
640
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641HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
642 with the $config_file variable.
643
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644JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
645 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
646 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
647 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 648 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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650GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
651 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
652 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
653 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
654 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
655
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656JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
657
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658JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
659 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
660 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
661 list order is no longer honoured.
662
4c04137d 663JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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664 for DKIM processing.
665
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666JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
667 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 668
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669JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
670 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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671 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
672 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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674JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
675 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
676
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677JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
678 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
679
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680JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
681 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
682
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683JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
684
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685JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
686 cached by the daemon.
687
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688JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
689 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
690
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691JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
692 keys are given for lookup.
693
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694JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
695 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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696 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
697 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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699JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
700 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
701 server-side so match that on older versions.
702
07c73177 703JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 704 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 705 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 706
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707JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
708 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
709
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710JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
711 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
712 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 713 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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714 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
715 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
716 initial truncated version.
717
ab9152ff 718JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 719
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720JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
721
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722JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
723 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
724
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725JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
726
bc3c7bb7 727HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
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729JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
730 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
731 induced overflows.
732
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733JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
734 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
735 stage.
736
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737JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
738 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
739
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740JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
741 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
742 former class.
743
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744JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
745 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
746 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
747
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748JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
749 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
750 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
751 extraction. Accept either.
752
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757JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
758 expanded.
759
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760JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
761
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762JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
763 it.
764
01a4a5c5 765JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 766 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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767 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
768 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
769
cb1d7830 770JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 771 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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772 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
773
610ff438 774JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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775 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
776 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
777 TLS connections
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779JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
780 sites use this now.
781
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782JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
783 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
784 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
785 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
786 have a dsn_lasthop option.
787
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788JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
789 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 790 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 791
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792JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
793
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794JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
795 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
796
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797JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
798 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
799
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800JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
801 /defer_ok option.
802
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803JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
804 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
805
fd4d8871 806JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 807 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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808 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
809
810JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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811 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
812 specify a port-range.
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814JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
815 timeout value per server.
816
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817JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
818 now have the list separator specified.
819
8a512ed5 820JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 821 option values.
8a512ed5 822
82c0c8ea 823JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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824 under OpenSSL.
825
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826JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
827
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828JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
829 rather than the verbs used.
830
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831JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
832 from 255 to 1024 chars.
833
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834JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
835
cfab9d68 836HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 837 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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839JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
840 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
841
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842HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
843 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
844
4c04137d 845JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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847JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
848
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849JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
850 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 851 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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852 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
853
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854JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
855
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856JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
857 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
858
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859JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
860 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
861
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862JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
863
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864JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
865
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866JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
867
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868JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
869 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
870
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871JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
872 added for tls authenticator.
873
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874HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
875
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880TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
881 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
882 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
883 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
884 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
885 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
886 the script parsing/test process like normal.
887
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888TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
889 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
890 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
891 function when detected.
892
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893JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
894 cause callback expansion.
895
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896TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
897 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
898 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
899 instead of bool when processing it.
900
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903
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904JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
905
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906JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
907
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908TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
909
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910TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
911 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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914 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
915 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
916 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 917 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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918 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
919
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920JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
921 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
922 exceeded it.
923
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924JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
925 version 3.3.6 or later.
926
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928 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
929 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 930 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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931 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
932 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
933 option is defined.
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936 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
937
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938JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
939 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
940 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
941 matches.
942
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943JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
944 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
945 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
946
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JH
947JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
948 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
949
950JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
951 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
952 syntax errors.
953
3394b36a 954JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
955
956JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
957 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
958
3394b36a
TL
959TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
960 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
961 tarball.
962
ad4c5ff9
JH
963JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
964
4c04137d 965JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
966 Bug 1561.
967
968JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
969 output list separator was used.
970
8bc732e8 971
1f0ebb98
TL
972Exim version 4.84
973-----------------
09728d20
TL
974TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
975 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
976 return.
1f0ebb98 977
a612424f 978JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 979 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
980
981JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
982
983TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 984 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 985
1f0ebb98 986
c0e56233
TF
987Exim version 4.83
988-----------------
989
990TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
991
992 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
993 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
994 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
995 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
996 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
997 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
998
7245734e
TF
999TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1000 utilities have not been installed.
1001
fd5dad68
JH
1002JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1003 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1004
5428a946
TL
1005TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1006 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1007
a3c86431
TL
1008TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1009 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1010 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1011 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1012
aa26e137
JH
1013JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1014
5a1b8443
WB
1015TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1016 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1017
72c9e342
PP
1018PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1019 not dns_use_dnssec.
1020
76f44207
WB
1021JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1022
770747fd
MFM
1023TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1024 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1025 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1026
8ddef691 1027TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1028 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1029 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1030 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1031 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1032 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1033
b9c2e32f
AR
1034JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1035
e45a1c37
JH
1036JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1037 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1038
67d81c10
JH
1039JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1040 failed delivery.
1041
b1f8e4f8
JH
1042JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1043
511a6c14 1044JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1045
1046JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1047 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1048
51c7471d
JH
1049JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1050 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1051
3695be34
TL
1052TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1053
1e06383a
TL
1054JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1055
76146973
JH
1056JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1057 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1058
1059 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1060 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1061 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1062
8c8b8274
TL
1063TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1064 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1065 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1066 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1067
35aba663
JH
1068JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1069
8c51eead 1070JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1071 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1072 lookup).
8c51eead 1073
deae092e
HS
1074TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1075 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1076 Schlichting.
35aba663 1077
fd3b6a4a 1078JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1079 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1080
8d91c6dc
LT
1081TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1082 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1083
2b4a568d
JH
1084JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1085
d2af03f4
HS
1086TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1087 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1088 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1089
9d1c15ef
JH
1090JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1091 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1092
44662487
JH
1093JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1094 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1095 hosts_request_ocsp.
1096
ed3bba5f 1097JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1098 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1099 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1100
8ccd00b1
JH
1101JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1102
8ded8589
TL
1103TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1104 Christian Aistleitner.
1105
f2de3a33
JH
1106JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1107
6eb02f88
TL
1108TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1109 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1110
00bff6f6
JH
1111JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1112 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1113
071c51f7
JH
1114JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1115 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1116
a6d4c44e
TF
1117TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1118 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1119
3ae173e7
ACK
1120TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1121 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1122
c13d09b8
TL
1123TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1124 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1125 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1126
0df4ab80
JH
1127JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1128
66be95e0
PP
1129PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1130 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1131 Jasper Wallace.
1132
1bd0d12b
JH
1133JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1134
0de7239e
TL
1135TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1136 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1137 CVE-2014-2972
1138
fd3b6a4a 1139
2c422e6f 1140Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1141-----------------
1142
1143PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1144
12f69989
PP
1145PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1146 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1147
54c90be1
PP
1148PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1149 by GnuTLS.
1150
1f4a55da
PP
1151PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1152 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1153 routines.
1154
13363eba 1155PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1156
66645890 1157PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1158 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1159 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1160 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1161 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1162
a3fb9793 1163PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1164 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1165 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1166 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1167 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1168 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1169
d27f98fe 1170TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1171
6822b909
TL
1172TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1173
e7568d51
TL
1174TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1175 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1176
ae0e32ee 1177TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1178 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1179 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1180
1181TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1182
e2658fff
TL
1183TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1184
83712b39
TL
1185TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1186 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1187
976b7e9f
JH
1188JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1189
be4a1376
JH
1190JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1191
ec4b68e5
PP
1192PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1193
d7148a07
NM
1194NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1195 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1196
585121e2 1197JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1198
2519e60d
TL
1199PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1200 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1201 function.
a5f239e4 1202
13d08c90
PP
1203PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1204 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1205
bef3ea7f
JH
1206JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1207 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1208 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1209
846726c5
JH
1210JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1211
3a796370
JH
1212JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1213
ea722490 1214JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1215 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1216
b1b05573
JH
1217JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1218 Bugzilla 884.
1219
362145b5
JH
1220JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1221 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1222
3c0a92dc
JH
1223JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1224 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1225
6d7c6175
PP
1226PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1227 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1228 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1229
6f123593
JH
1230JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1231 authenticators.
1232
c8e2fc1e
JH
1233JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1234 for control.
1235
005ac57f
PP
1236PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1237
3f1df0e3
PP
1238PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1239 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1240 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1241 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1242
67bd1ab3
TF
1243TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1244
1245 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1246 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1247 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1248 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1249 the retry rules.
1250
1251 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1252 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1253 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1254
1255 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1256 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1257 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1258 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1259
1ddeb334
TF
1260 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1261 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1262 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1263 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1264 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1265 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1266 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1267
1268 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1269 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1270
326cdc37
TF
1271TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1272
1273 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1274
1275 Resent-From: f
1276
1277 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1278 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1279 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1280 username as equal to the username.
1281
1282 This change corrects that bug.
1283
f62514b3
GF
1284GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1285 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1286 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1287
eb505532
TF
1288TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1289
14c7b357
PP
1290PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1291 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1292 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1293 NULL dereference and crash.
1294
94eaf700
PP
1295JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1296
6f5a440a
PP
1297PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1298 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1299 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1300
514ee161
SC
1301SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1302
fd98a5c6
JH
1303JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1304 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1305 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1306 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1307 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1308 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1309 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1310 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1311 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1312 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1313 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1314
035c7f1e
PP
1315PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1316 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1317
ff284120
PP
1318PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1319 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1320 Bugzilla 880.
1321
26e72755
PP
1322PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1323 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1324 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1325 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1326 an empty string is now equivalent.
1327
0fbd9bff
PP
1328PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1329 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1330 not performing validation itself.
1331
700d22f3
PP
1332PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1333 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1334
fcc8e047
JH
1335JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1336 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1337
4c04137d 1338TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1339
8c020188
PP
1340PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1341 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1342 other false fix of the same issue.
1343 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1344 Bugzilla 1363.
1345
d13cdd30
PP
1346PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1347 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1348
e2fbf4a2
PP
1349PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1350 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1351 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1352
f4c1088b
PP
1353PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1354 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1355 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1356
c5c2182f
PP
1357TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1358
73431ca9
JH
1359JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1360
2d07a215
TL
1361TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1362 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1363
a30a8861
TL
1364TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1365 Alexander Miroch.
1366
33382dd9
TL
1367TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1368 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1369 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1370 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1371 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1372
046172e6
TL
1373TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1374 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1375
581d7bee 1376TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1377 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1378 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1379
1380TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1381 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1382 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1383 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1384
237b2cf2
TL
1385TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1386
9fc5a352
TL
1387TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1388 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1389 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1390
b10e4ec2
TL
1391TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1392
e2cebd74
TL
1393TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1394 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1395 interaction.
1396
1397TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1398 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1399
2519e60d
TL
1400TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1401 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1402
e78e6ecf 1403
4263f395
PP
1404Exim version 4.80.1
1405-------------------
1406
1407PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1408 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1409 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1410
ea722490 1411
b1770b6e 1412Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1413-----------------
1414
1415PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1416 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1417 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1418
23c7e742
NM
1419NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1420
b322aac8
NM
1421NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1422 improved.
1423
4a891427
NM
1424NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1425
c1e794ba 1426PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1427
97753960
PP
1428PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1429
1430PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1431 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1432
df6303fa
PP
1433PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1434 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1435
7e6a8985
PP
1436PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1437 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1438
f1e05cc7 1439PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1440 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1441 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1442
4c287009
PP
1443PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1444
b98bb9ac
PP
1445PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1446 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1447
4a6a987a
PP
1448PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1449
c45dd180 1450PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1451
7db8d074
PP
1452PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1453 non-compliant senders.
1454 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1455
eae0036b 1456NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1457 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1458 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1459
dec5017e
PP
1460PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1461 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1462 in spool file corruption.
1463
c80c5570
PP
1464PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1465 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1466 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1467 "Got SSL error 2".
1468
076b11e2
PP
1469TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1470 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1471 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1472
5407bfff
JH
1473JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1474 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1475
9e45c72b
PP
1476JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1477
e74376d8
PP
1478PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1479 diagnostics.
1480 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1481
4c04137d 1482PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1483 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1484 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1485
7be682ca
PP
1486PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1487 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1488 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1489 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1490
ef840681
PP
1491PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1492 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1493
5bfb4cdf
PP
1494PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1495 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1496 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1497 resolver implementation change.
1498
c6e95d22
PP
1499PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1500 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1501
9cbad13b
PP
1502PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1503
9ee44efb
PP
1504PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1505
6a6084f8
PP
1506PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1507 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1508
12dd53c7
PP
1509PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1510 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1511
9e45c72b 1512JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1513 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1514
17c76198
PP
1515PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1516 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1517 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1518 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1519 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1520
53947857 1521PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1522
eae0036b 1523PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1524 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1525 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1526
9e45c72b 1527JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1528
7390e768
PP
1529PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1530 read-only, out of scope).
1531 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1532
08488c86
PP
1533PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1534 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1535 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1536 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1537
6475bd82
PP
1538PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1539
81f91683
PP
1540PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1541 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1542 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1543 real issues in debug logging.
1544
5779e6aa
PP
1545PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1546 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1547
3375e053
PP
1548PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1549 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1550 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1551
1552PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1553 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1554 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1555 problems.
3375e053 1556
9d26b8c0
PP
1557PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1558 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1559
57eb9e91 1560PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1561 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1562 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1563 needs to override this, it can.
1564
16880d1a
PP
1565PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1566 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1567 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1568
a799883d
PP
1569PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1570 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1571 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1572 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1573
3ecab157 1574PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1575
0599f9cf 1576
867fcbf5
PP
1577Exim version 4.77
1578-----------------
1579
1580PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1581 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1582
f1a29782
TF
1583TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1584
ab42bd23
TK
1585TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1586 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1587
0ca0cf52
TF
1588TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1589 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1590
921b12ca
TF
1591TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1592 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1593 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1594
1595 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1596 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1597 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1598 not safe for signals.
1599
1600 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1601 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1602 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1603 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1604 exiwhat.
1605
c99ce5c9
TF
1606TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1607
1608 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1609 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1610 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1611 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1612 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1613
1614 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1615 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1616 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1617 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1618 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1619 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1620
1621 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1622 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1623 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1624 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1625
1626 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1627 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1628 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1629 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1630
1631 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1632 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1633 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1634 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1635 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1636 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1637 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1638 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1639 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1640
1641 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1642 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1643 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1644 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1645
1646 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1647 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1648 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1649 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1650 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1651 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1652 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1653 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1654 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1655 details in the main documentation.
1656
3634fc25
TF
1657TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1658
792e8a19
TF
1659TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1660
5901f0ab
TF
1661TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1662 repository when doing development or release builds.
1663
7f2a2a43
PP
1664PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1665 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1666
061b7ebd
PP
1667PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1668 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1669 Bugzilla 97.
1670
e12f8c32
PP
1671PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1672
9e949f00 1673PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1674 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1675
1676PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1677 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1678
555ae6af 1679PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1680 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1681
1682PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1683 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1684
6f7fe114
PP
1685PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1686 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1687
c566dd90
PP
1688PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1689 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1690 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1691 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1692
d6cc7c78 1693PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1694 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1695 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1696
0d0e4455
PP
1697PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1698
3399bb60 1699PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1700
1701PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1702 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1703
0ca0cf52 1704
10906672
PP
1705Exim version 4.76
1706-----------------
1707
1708PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1709
754a0503
PP
1710PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1711 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1712
c0c7b2da
PP
1713PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1714
e97d1f08
PP
1715PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1716
084c1d8c
PP
1717PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1718 Bugzilla 1098.
1719
4e7ee012
PP
1720PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1721 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1722
c8d52a00
PP
1723TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1724 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1725
54e7ce4a
PP
1726PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1727 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1728
5ee6f336
PP
1729PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1730 Bugzilla 1104.
1731
c8d52a00 1732TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1733 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1734
1735TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1736 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1737 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1738 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1739
1740PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1741 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1742
10906672 1743
aa097c4c
NM
1744Exim version 4.75
1745-----------------
1746
4c04137d 1747NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1748 Bugzilla 1073
1749
7f3d9eff
TF
1750TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1751 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1752 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1753
159f52d2
TF
1754TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1755 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1756
0cc9542a
PP
1757PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1758 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1759 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1760
f7274286
PP
1761PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1762 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1763
7b797365
PP
1764PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1765 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1766
caacae52
NM
1767NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1768 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1769
09dcaba9
NM
1770NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1771 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1772
bc19a55b
PP
1773PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1774 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1775
bd4c9759
NM
1776NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1777 Fixes bug 943.
1778
b72aab72
PP
1779PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1780 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1781
2fe76745
PP
1782PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1783 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1784
76aa570c
PP
1785PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1786 SQL string expansion failure details.
1787 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1788
f1e5fef5
PP
1789PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1790 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1791
4d805ee9
PP
1792PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1793 extern declarations in function scope.
1794 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1795
cd59ab18
PP
1796PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1797 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1798 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1799 a kernel bug).
1800
332f5cf3
PP
1801PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1802 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1803
29cfeb94
PP
1804PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1805 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1806
660242ad
PP
1807PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1808 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1809
bc4bc4c5
PP
1810PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1811 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1812
2e64baa9
NM
1813NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1814 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1815 Dennis Davis.
1816
4c04137d 1817PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1818
6bac1a9a
PP
1819PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1820
552193f0
NM
1821NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1822 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1823
1b587e48
TF
1824TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1825 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1826
aa097c4c 1827
8c07b69f
TF
1828Exim version 4.74
1829-----------------
1830
1831TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1832 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1833
c0ea85ab
TF
1834TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1835 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1836
0761d44e
TF
1837TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1838
0a349494
PP
1839DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1840 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1841 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1842
1843PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1844 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1845 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1846
fea24b2e
PP
1847PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1848 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1849 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1850 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1851
6545de78
PP
1852PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1853 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1854 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1855 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1856
1670ef10
PP
1857PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1858 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1859 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1860 arbitrary files.
1861
c0886197
PP
1862PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1863 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1864
b7487bce
PP
1865PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1866 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1867 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1868 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1869 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1870
8c07b69f 1871
97fd1e48 1872Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1873-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1874
1875PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1876 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1877 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1878
6901c596
PP
1879PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1880 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1881
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1882JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1883
77bb000f
PP
1884PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1885
a29e5231
PP
1886PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1887
ec5a0394 1888PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1889
55c75993
PP
1890PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1891
453a6645 1892PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1893 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1894 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1895 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1896
8544e77a
PP
1897PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1898 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1899 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1900 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1901 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1902
83e029d5
PP
1903PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1904
ed7f7860
PP
1905PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1906
7d9f747b
PP
1907PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1908
4b2241d2
PP
1909PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1910
10385c15
PP
1911PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1912
dbc4b90d
PP
1913PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1914
532be449
PP
1915PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1916
6a8de854 1917PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1918 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1919 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1920
5dc43717
JJ
1921JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1922
1923JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1924 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1925
3346ab01
PP
1926PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1927 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1928
491fab4c
PP
1929PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1930 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1931 Notification from John Horne.
1932
13eb9497
PP
1933PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1934 compatible.
1935
1936PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1937 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1938 it normally works.
1939
7f36d675
DW
1940DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1941 access.
1942
c1d94452
DW
1943DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1944 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1945 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1946
e2f5dc15
DW
1947DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1948 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1949 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1950 configuration file.
1951
cd25e41d
DW
1952DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1953 option (effectively making it always true).
1954
261dc43e
DW
1955DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1956 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1957
fa32850b
DW
1958DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1959 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1960
79d4bc3d
PP
1961PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1962 run-time user, instead of root.
1963
43236f35 1964PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1965 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1966
fb08281f
DW
1967DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1968 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1969 arguments.
3346ab01 1970
74935b98
DW
1971DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1972 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1973 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1974
90b6341f
DW
1975DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1976
57730b52
ML
1977NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1978
66581d1e 1979
465e92cf
JJ
1980Exim version 4.72
1981-----------------
1982
453a6645
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1983JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1984 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1985 typos
465e92cf 1986
453a6645
PP
1987JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1988 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1989 (Finput)
edae0343 1990
9bd3e22c
NM
1991NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1992 Patch from Alain Williams
1993
bb576ff7
NM
1994NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1995
5a1a5845
NM
1996NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1997 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1998
981a9fad
NM
1999NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2000 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2001
7fc497ee
NM
2002NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2003
1a41defa
JJ
2004JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2005
a466095c 2006NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2007 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2008
94a6bd0b
NM
2009TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2010
2011TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2012
2013MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2014 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2015 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2016
c1b141a8
NM
2017NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2018 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2019
b26eacf1 2020NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2021 Patch by Simon Arlott
2022
179c5980 2023PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2024 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2025
9bd3e22c 2026
7c6d71af
NM
2027Exim version 4.71
2028-----------------
2029
7d9f747b 2030TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2031
f013fb92
NM
2032NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2033
0eb8eedd
NM
2034NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2035
663ee6d9
NM
2036NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2037
177ebd9b
NM
2038NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2039
7c6d71af 2040
210f147e
NM
2041Exim version 4.70
2042-----------------
2043
cdd3bb85 2044TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2045 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2046
2047TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2048 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2049 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2050
2051TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2052 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2053 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2054
2055TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2056 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2057
210f147e
NM
2058NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2059 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2060 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2061 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2062
deafd5b3
NM
2063NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2064 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2065 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2066
089793a4
TF
2067TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2068
5f16ca82
TF
2069TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2070
dae9d94e 2071NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2072 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2073
7d9f747b 2074NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2075
06864c44
TF
2076TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2077 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2078 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2079 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2080
65a7d8c3 2081NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2082 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2083
23510047 2084TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2085
7d9f747b 2086NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2087
7d8eec3a 2088NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2089 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2090
89dec7b6
TF
2091TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2092 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2093
a99de90c
TF
2094TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2095 that they are available at delivery time.
2096
e2803e40
TF
2097TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2098
7199e1ee
TF
2099TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2100 incoming_port log selectors.
2101
e276e04b
TF
2102TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2103 setting expands to an empty string.
2104
ce552449 2105NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2106 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2107
e765a0f1 2108NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2109 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2110
4f054c63 2111NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2112 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2113
7d9f747b
PP
2114NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2115 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2116
7d9f747b
PP
2117NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2118 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2119
b52bc06e 2120NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2121 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2122
447de4b0
NM
2123NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2124
4c69d561 2125NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2126 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2127
d5c39246 2128NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2129 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2130
0b23848a
TK
2131TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2132
8f3414a1 2133NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2134 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2135
fb6f955d
NM
2136NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2137
2138NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2139
7d9f747b
PP
2140NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2141 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2142
7d9f747b
PP
2143NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2144 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2145
7d9f747b
PP
2146NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2147 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2148
7d9f747b
PP
2149NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2150 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2151
7d9f747b
PP
2152NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2153 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2154
7d9f747b
PP
2155NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2156 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2157
7d9f747b
PP
2158NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2159 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2160
7d9f747b 2161NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2162 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2163
7d9f747b 2164NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2165
7d9f747b
PP
2166NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2167 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2168
7d9f747b 2169NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2170
7d9f747b 2171NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2172
7d9f747b 2173NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2174
7d9f747b 2175NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2176
17792b53 2177NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2178 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2179
7d9f747b
PP
2180NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2181 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2182
91576cec 2183NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2184 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2185
7d9f747b
PP
2186NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2187 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2188
7d9f747b 2189NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2190
7d9f747b 2191NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2192
7d9f747b 2193NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2194
7d9f747b 2195NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2196
deafd5b3 2197
47db1125
NM
2198Exim version 4.69
2199-----------------
2200
4b3504d0
TK
2201TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2202 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2203 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2204
2205 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2206 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2207 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2208 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2209 build errors in sieve.c.
2210
81ea09ca
NM
2211NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2212 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2213 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2214
f13cddcb
SC
2215SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2216
7d9f747b 2217NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2218
7d9f747b 2219NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2220
7d9f747b 2221NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2222
2223
eb4c0de6
PH
2224Exim version 4.68
2225-----------------
2226
2227PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2228
6a3bceb1
PH
2229PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2230 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2231 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2232 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2233 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2234 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2235 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2236 for iplsearch lookups.
2237
2238 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2239 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2240 previously such lookups could never work.
2241
4c04137d 2242 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2243 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2244 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2245
2e30fa9d
TK
2246TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2247 version.
2248
0806a9c5
MH
2249MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2250 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2251 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2252 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2253 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2254 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2255
ae276964
TK
2256TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2257 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2258
0f2cbd1b
MH
2259MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2260 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2261 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2262 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2263 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2264 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2265
2b85bce7
PH
2266PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2267 local_scan API.
2268
93655c46
PH
2269PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2270
6c512171
PH
2271PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2272 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2273 encrypted.
2274
2275PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2276 by clients under certain conditions.
2277
aa6dc513
PH
2278PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2279 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2280
a96603a0
PH
2281PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2282
8f240103
PH
2283PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2284 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2285
2286PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2287
d677b2f2
PH
2288PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2289
d52120f2
PH
2290PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2291
64f2600a
PH
2292PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2293 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2294
8669f003
PH
2295PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2296
a4dc33a8
PH
2297PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2298 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2299
d6a60c0f
PH
2300PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2301
8f128379
PH
2302PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2303
8932dffe
PH
2304PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2305 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2306 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2307 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2308
ddea74fa 2309PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2310 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2311 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2312
ddea74fa 2313PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2314 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2315
ddea74fa
PH
2316PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2317
ce9f225c
PH
2318PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2319
19897d52
PH
2320PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2321
bc64a74d
PH
2322PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2323 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2324 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2325
eb4c0de6 2326
b4ed4da0
PH
2327Exim version 4.67
2328-----------------
2329
22ad45c9
MH
2330MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2331 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2332 Jan Srzednicki.
2333
b4ed4da0
PH
2334PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2335 issue a MAIL command.
2336
431b7361
PH
2337PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2338
2339 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2340
2341 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2342 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2343 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2344 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2345 item. This has been fixed.
2346
2347PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2348 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2349
83da1223
PH
2350PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2351 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2352
54fc8428
PH
2353PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2354 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2355 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2356
34c5e8dd
SC
2357SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2358
bbe15da8
PH
2359PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2360 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2361 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2362 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2363 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2364
0e8a9471
MH
2365MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2366 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2367 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2368
f0872424
PH
2369PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2370 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2371 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2372 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2373
b01dd148
PH
2374PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2375
6bf342e1
PH
2376PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2377
273f34d0
PH
2378PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2379 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2380 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2381 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2382 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2383
cf8b11a5
PH
2384PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2385
41c7c167
PH
2386PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2387 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2388 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2389 values).
2390
9c57cbc0
PH
2391PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2392
f3f065bb
PH
2393PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2394
047bdd8c
PH
2395PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2396
0ce9abe6
PH
2397PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2398
0e22dfd1
PH
2399PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2400
4c590bd1
PH
2401PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2402 no_callout_flush is set.
2403
09945f1e
PH
2404PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2405 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2406 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2407 fixed.
2408
c51b8e75
PH
2409PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2410
e28326d8 2411PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2412 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2413 other ACL rejections are.
2414
75b1493f
PH
2415PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2416 with slight modification.
2417
7c5214ec
PH
2418PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2419 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2420
4311097e
PH
2421PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2422 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2423 connection.
2424
29f89cad
PH
2425PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2426 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2427
5e687460
SC
2428SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2429
c3611384
PH
2430PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2431 expansion side effects.
2432
5a11a7b4
PH
2433PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2434 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2435 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2436 be the same.
2437
0e20aff9
MH
2438MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2439 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2440 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2441
ca86f471
PH
2442PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2443 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2444 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2445 were accidentally chopped off.
2446
a14e5636
PH
2447PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2448 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2449 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2450 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2451 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2452 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2453 pipelining has not been advertised.
2454
ec95d1a6
PH
2455PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2456
42855d71
PH
2457PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2458 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2459 This has been fixed.
2460
57c2c631
PH
2461PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2462 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2463 reported on Solaris.
2464
58c01c94
PH
2465PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2466 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2467 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2468 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2469 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2470 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2471 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2472
dee5a20a
PH
2473PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2474 cpus.
2475
d2ee6114
PH
2476PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2477
b2d5182b
PH
2478PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2479
79749a79
PH
2480PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2481 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2482 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2483 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2484 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2485 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2486
c456d9bb
PH
2487PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2488 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2489 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2490 host_all_ignored option.
2491
cd9868ec
PH
2492PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2493 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2494 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2495 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2496 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2497 is what is supposed to happen).
2498
ebeaf996
PH
2499PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2500 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2501 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2502 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2503 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2504 uses the Exim user.
2505
2679d413
PH
2506PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2507 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2508 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2509 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2510 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2511 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2512 users.
2513
84024b72
PH
2514PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2515
8005d38e
SC
2516SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2517 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2518 (Jez Hancock).
2519 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2520 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2521
3298c6c6
SC
2522SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2523
a43a27c5
PH
2524PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2525
58eb016e 2526PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2527 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2528 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2529 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2530 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2531 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2532 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2533 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2534 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2535 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2536 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2537
b43a74ea
PH
2538PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2539 advertised in response to EHLO.
2540
b4ed4da0 2541
5dd1517f
PH
2542Exim version 4.66
2543-----------------
2544
2545PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2546 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2547
2548 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2549 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2550
2551 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2552 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2553 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2554
2555 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2556 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2557 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2558 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2559 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2560
2561
93cfa765
TK
2562Exim version 4.65
2563-----------------
2564
2565TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2566 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2567 versions. (#438)
2568
d6066548
MH
2569MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2570 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2571 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2572
4362ff0d
PH
2573PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2574 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2575 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2576 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2577 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2578 rather than extend the field.
2579
93cfa765 2580
944e9e9c
TF
2581Exim version 4.64
2582-----------------
aa41d2de 2583
21d74bd9
TK
2584TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2585 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2586 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2587 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2588 these files.
2589
2590TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2591 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2592 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2593
2594TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2595 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2596 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2597
2598TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2599 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2600 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2601 in the field name.
2602
2b1c6e3a
PH
2603PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2604 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2605 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2606 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2607 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2608 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2609 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2610 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2611 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2612 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2613 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2614
1f872c80
PH
2615PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2616 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2617
2618PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2619 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2620 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2621 ignores EPIPE as well.
2622
d203e649
PH
2623PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2624 (quoted-printable decoding).
2625
cc2ed8f7 2626PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2627 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2628
ddfcd446
PH
2629PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2630
d45b1de8
PH
2631PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2632
2633PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2634
38a0a95f 2635PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2636 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2637
a2405d83
JJ
2638JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2639 in 4.64-PH/09.
2640
2641JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2642 miscellaneous code fixes
2643
6ea85e9a
PH
2644PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2645 rejections.
2646
26da7e20
PH
2647PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2648 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2649 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2650 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2651 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2652 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2653 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2654 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2655
14aa5a05 2656PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2657 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2658 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2659 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2660 function.
2661 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2662 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2663 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2664 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2665 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2666 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2667 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2668 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2669 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2670
ff75a1f7
PH
2671PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2672 decoding.
2673
e6f6568e
PH
2674PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2675 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2676 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2677 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2678 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2679 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2680 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2681 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2682
d6f6e0dc
PH
2683PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2684 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2685 list.
2686
322050c2
PH
2687PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2688 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2689 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2690 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2691 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2692 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2693 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2694 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2695 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2696 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2697 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2698 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2699 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2700
08955dd3
PH
2701PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2702 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2703 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2704 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2705 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2706 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2707 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2708
1eccaa59
PH
2709PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2710 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2711 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2712 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2713 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2714 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2715 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2716 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2717 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2718 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2719
602e59e5
PH
2720PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2721 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2722 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2723 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2724 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2725
411ef850
PH
2726PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2727 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2728 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2729 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2730 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2731 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2732 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2733
7befa435
PH
2734PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2735 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2736 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2737 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2738 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2739 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2740 been verified.
2741
48da4259 2742PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2743 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2744 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2745 and authorization.)
2746
48da4259
PH
2747PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2748 if any retry times were supplied.
2749
d1d5595c
PH
2750PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2751 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2752 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2753
0ef732d9
PH
2754PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2755
328895cc
PH
2756PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2757
fd700877
PH
2758PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2759 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2760 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2761 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2762 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2763 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2764
8dce1a6f
PH
2765PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2766 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2767
17af4a17
PH
2768PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2769 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2770 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2771
2772PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2773 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2774 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2775 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2776 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2777 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2778 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2779 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2780 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2781
2782 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2783 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2784 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2785 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2786 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2787 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2788 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2789 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2790 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2791
2792 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2793 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2794 hammering the server.
2795
c1114884
PH
2796PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2797 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2798
7a0743eb
PH
2799PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2800
0d85fa3f
PH
2801PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2802 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2803 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2804
1bf43b78
PH
2805PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2806 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2807 one case where this was not true.
2808
520de300
PH
2809PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2810 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2811 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2812 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2813 fails.
2814
48c7f9e2
PH
2815PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2816 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2817 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2818 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2819 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2820 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2821 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2822 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2823 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2824 smtp transport.
2825
99ea1c86
PH
2826PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2827 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2828 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2829 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2830
a2042e78
PH
2831PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2832 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2833
4fbcfc2e
PH
2834PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2835 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2836 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2837
aa41d2de
PH
2838PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2839
af561417
PH
2840PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2841
3cc66b45
PH
2842PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2843
194cc0e4
PH
2844PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2845 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2846 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2847 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2848
a401ddaa
PH
2849PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2850 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2851
4e88a19f
PH
2852PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2853 be meaningful with "accept".
2854
d7d7b289
SC
2855SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2856 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2857
2858SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2859 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2860 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2861
2862SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2863 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2864 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2865 there is data to show.
2866 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2867
2868SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2869 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2870 as well as the number of messages.
2871
2872SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2873 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2874 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2875
2876SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2877 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2878 have a flag are now skipped.
2879
2880SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2881 Added the -emptyok flag.
2882
2883SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2884 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2885
0ea2a468
JJ
2886JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2887 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2888 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2889
2890JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2891 match 4.64-PH/13
2892
2893JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2894 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2895
2896JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2897
2898JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2899 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2900
8a10f5a4
PH
2901PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2902
30e18802
PH
2903PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2904 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2905 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2906 contravention of the specifications.
2907
55728a4f
PH
2908PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2909 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2910 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2911
d7837193
PH
2912PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2913 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2914 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2915
87054a31
PH
2916PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2917
ea2c01d2
MH
2918MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2919 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2920 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2921 some point in the past.
2922
e4fa6968
PH
2923PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2924 transport during callout processing was broken.
2925
56f5d9bd
PH
2926PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2927 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2928
922e1c28
PH
2929PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2930 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2931
21eb6e72
PH
2932PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2933 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2934
a0540757
PH
2935PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2936
944e9e9c 2937
478be7b0
SC
2938Exim version 4.63
2939-----------------
2940
2941SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2942 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2943
2944SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2945 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2946 there is data to show.
2947 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2948
2949SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2950 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2951
2b965a65
TF
2952TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2953 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2954
45b91596
PH
2955TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2956 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2957
c59f5781
TF
2958TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2959 submissions from trusted users.
2960
90fc3069
TF
2961TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2962 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2963
6083aca0
TF
2964TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2965 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2966 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2967 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2968 there is now a framework to start from.
2969
765b530f
PH
2970PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2971 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2972 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2973
4e167a8c
PH
2974PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2975
4608d683
PH
2976PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2977
b8dc3e4a
PH
2978PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2979
5418e93b
PH
2980PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2981 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2982 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2983
b4a9bda2
PH
2984PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2985 libradius.
2986
45b91596
PH
2987PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2988 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2989 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2990
5547e2c5
PH
2991PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2992 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2993 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2994 its arguments.
2995
dbcef0ea
PH
2996PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2997 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2998 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2999 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3000 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3001
25257489
PH
3002PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3003 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3004
c816d124
PH
3005PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3006
a9ccd69a
PH
3007PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3008 operations in malware.c.
3009
75fa1910
PH
3010PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3011 signatures.
3012
a7d7aa58
PH
3013PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3014 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3015 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3016 all.
3017
42119b09
PH
3018PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3019 statements to "add_header".
3020
41609df5
PH
3021PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3022 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3023
a5bd321b
PH
3024PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3025 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3026 latter.
3027
e85a7ad5 3028PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3029 so that it is now:
3030
e85a7ad5
PH
3031 ${if or { \
3032 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3033 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3034 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3035 }{no}{yes}}
3036
e85a7ad5
PH
3037 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3038 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3039
d8fe1c03
PH
3040PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3041 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3042
16282d2b
PH
3043PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3044 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3045 any possible encoding problems.
3046
35d40a98
PH
3047PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3048 but not after initializing Perl.
3049
034d99ab
PH
3050PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3051 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3052 apparently, which is not desirable.
3053
6ec97b1b
PH
3054PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3055 queries.
3056
e22ca4ac
JJ
3057JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3058 --not options
3059
3060JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3061
33d73e3b
PH
3062PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3063 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3064 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3065 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3066
9ecb03f3
PH
3067PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3068 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3069 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3070
084efe8d
PH
3071PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3072 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3073 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3074 0.12.
3075
366fc9f0
PH
3076PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3077 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3078 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3079 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3080 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3081
c59f5781 3082
c887c79e
TF
3083Exim version 4.62
3084-----------------
3085
3086TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3087 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3088
1cce3af8
PH
3089PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3090 patch).
3091
afb3eaaf
PH
3092PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3093 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3094 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3095 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3096 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3097 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3098 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3099 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3100 451 error is used.
3101
e173618b
PH
3102PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3103
dd16e114
PH
3104PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3105 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3106 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3107
f7fd3850
PH
3108PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3109 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3110 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3111 odd errors.
3112
d87df92c
PH
3113PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3114 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3115
7e9f683d
PH
3116PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3117 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3118 option (which defaults to 0600).
3119
bfad5236
PH
3120PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3121
01c490df
PH
3122PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3123 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3124 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3125 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3126 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3127 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3128 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3129
d6629cdc
PH
3130PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3131
1cce3af8 3132
214e2000
PH
3133Exim version 4.61
3134-----------------
3135
3136PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3137 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3138 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3139 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3140 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3141 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3142 addresses as local.
3143
f9daeae0
PH
3144PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3145 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3146
7e66e54d
PH
3147PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3148
c8ea1597
PH
3149PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3150 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3151 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3152 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3153 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3154 grumble.
3155
911f6fde
PH
3156PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3157 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3158
47ca6d6c
PH
3159PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3160 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3161 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3162 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3163 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3164
ed0e9820
PH
3165PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3166 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3167 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3168 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3169
eff37e47
PH
3170PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3171 be the same on different OS.
3172
1921d2ea
PH
3173PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3174 testing.
3175
b3f69ca8
JJ
3176JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3177 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3178
3179JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3180 in 4.61-PH/06
3181
424a1c63
PH
3182PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3183 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3184 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3185 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3186 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3187 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3188 bounce message.
3189
7a100415
PH
3190PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3191 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3192 when Exim was called.
3193
19b9dc85
PH
3194PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3195 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3196
309bd837
PH
3197PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3198 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3199 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3200 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3201
59e82a2a
PH
3202PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3203 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3204 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3205 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3206 changes:
3207
3208 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3209 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3210 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3211
3212 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3213 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3214 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3215
9edc04ce
PH
3216PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3217 feature).
3218
1349e1e5
PH
3219PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3220 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3221 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3222 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3223 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3224 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3225 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3226 values from the SRV records were lost.
3227
ea49d0e1
PH
3228PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3229 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3230 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3231
064a94c9
PH
3232PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3233 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3234 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3235
727071f8
PH
3236PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3237 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3238 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3239 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3240 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3241 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3242 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3243 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3244 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3245 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3246
f78eb7c6
PH
3247PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3248 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3249 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3250
21c28500
PH
3251PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3252 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3253
3254PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3255 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3256 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3257 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3258 is given.
3259
1688f43b
PH
3260PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3261 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3262 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3263
3264PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3265 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3266 PH/23 above applies.
3267
9675b384
PH
3268PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3269 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3270 (for which there is an explicit test).
3271
6a3f1455
PH
3272PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3273
dac79d3e
PH
3274PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3275 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3276 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3277 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3278 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3279
5977a0b3
PH
3280PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3281 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3282 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3283 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3284
c91535f3
PH
3285PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3286 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3287 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3288
0d46a8c8
PH
3289PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3290
278c6e6c
PH
3291PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3292
2cbb4081
PH
3293PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3294 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3295 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3296
3eef829e
PH
3297PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3298 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3299 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3300 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3301 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3302
1ab95fa6
PH
3303PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3304 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3305 the message gets confusing).
3306
230205fc
PH
3307PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3308 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3309 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3310 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3311
75e0e026
PH
3312PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3313 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3314 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3315 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3316 same order.
3317
3318PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3319 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3320 the different processes.
3321
145396a6
PH
3322PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3323
3cd34f13
PH
3324PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3325
11121d3d
JJ
3326JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3327 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3328
3329JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3330 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3331
3332JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3333 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3334 messages matching specified criteria.
3335
8def5aaf
PH
3336PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3337
929ba01c
PH
3338PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3339 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3340
2632889e
PH
3341PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3342 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3343 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3344 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3345 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3346 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3347 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3348 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3349 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3350 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3351
944a9c55
PH
3352PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3353 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3354 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3355
4a23603b
PH
3356PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3357
4730f942
PH
3358PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3359 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3360 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3361 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3362 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3363 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3364 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3365 the variable.
3366
30dba1e6
PH
3367PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3368 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3369
382afc6b
PH
3370PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3371
a86229cf
PH
3372PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3373
50c99ba6
PH
3374PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3375
d35e429d
PH
3376PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3377 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3378 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3379 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3380 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3381 size of the count of files.
3382
f90d018c
PH
3383PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3384
75def545
PH
3385PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3386 used in LMTP mode:
3387
3388 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3389 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3390 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3391 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3392
3393 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3394 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3395 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3396
3397PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3398 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3399 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3400 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3401 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3402
c46782ef
PH
3403PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3404 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3405
71fafd95
PH
3406PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3407 will now be deprecated.
3408
2c5db4fd
PH
3409PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3410
9cf6b11a
JJ
3411JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3412 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3413 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3414
3415JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3416 with very large, slow to parse queues
3417
3418JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3419
3420JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3421
898d150f
PH
3422PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3423 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3424 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3425 SMTP output lines.
3426
46218253
PH
3427PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3428 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3429 Sieve code now uses this.
3430
e97957bc
PH
3431PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3432 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3433
81e509d7
PH
3434PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3435 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3436
3d240ff7
PH
3437PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3438
b37c4101
PH
3439PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3440 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3441 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3442 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3443 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3444
79378e0f
PH
3445PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3446 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3447 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3448 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3449
e49c7bb4
PH
3450PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3451
d114ec46
PH
3452PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3453
f3d7df6c
PH
3454PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3455 is preferred over IPv4.
3456
715ab376
PH
3457PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3458 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3459 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3460 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3461 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3462 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3463 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3464
6b31b150
PH
3465PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3466 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3467 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3468
3469PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3470
d515a917
PH
3471PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3472 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3473 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3474 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3475 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3476 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3477 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3478 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3479 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3480 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3481 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3482
9b8fadde
PH
3483PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3484 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3485 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3486
214e2000 3487
5de37277
PH
3488Exim version 4.60
3489-----------------
3490
cc38ddbf
PH
3491PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3492
3493 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3494 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3495
3496 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3497 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3498 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3499
72fdd6ae
PH
3500PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3501
3502 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3503 not a single digit.
3504
3505 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3506 string.
3507
3508 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3509 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3510 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3511 silly things.
3512
3513 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3514 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3515
3516 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3517 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3518
cb741023
PH
3519PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3520 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3521 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3522
f174f16e
PH
3523PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3524 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3525
c25242d7
PH
3526PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3527 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3528
3529 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3530
3531 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3532 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3533 this:
3534
3535 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3536
82c19f95
PH
3537PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3538 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3539 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3540 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3541 identical. For example:
3542
3543 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3544
3545 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3546 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3547 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3548
d7ffbc12
PH
3549PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3550 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3551 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3552 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3553
9f526266
PH
3554PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3555 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3556 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3557 message.
3558
87fcc8b9
PH
3559PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3560
3561 o fixes some comments
3562 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3563 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3564 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3565 and documents the missing references header update
3566
3567 and most important:
3568
3569 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3570 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3571 result)
3572
456682f5
PH
3573PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3574 Electronic Mail") by including:
3575
3576 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3577
3578 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3579 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3580 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3581 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3582 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3583
3584 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3585
3586 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3587
3588 The auto-replied keyword:
3589
3590 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3591 message by an automatic process,
3592
3593 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3594
3595 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3596 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3597
3598 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3599 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3600 other messages.
3601
3e46c1aa
PH
3602PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3603 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3604
49826d12
PH
3605PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3606
eba0c039
PH
3607PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3608 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3609 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3610
a0d6ba8a
PH
3611PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3612 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3613 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3614
f0917727
PH
3615PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3616 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3617 and treats the condition as false.
3618
096fee00
PH
3619PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3620
024bd3c2
PH
3621PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3622 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3623 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3624 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3625 not changing the active code.
3626
3627 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3628 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3629
3630 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3631 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3632
df199fec
PH
3633PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3634 (Bugzilla #53).
3635
d27f1df3
PH
3636PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3637 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3638 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3639 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3640 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3641 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3642 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3643 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3644 the text comparison.
3645
96776534
PH
3646PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3647 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3648 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3649 The same fix has been applied.
3650
5de37277 3651
9a799bc0
PH
3652Exim version 4.54
3653-----------------
3654
3655PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3656 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3657 It now does.
3658
99a4b039
PH
3659PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3660 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3661
3662PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3663
4b233853
PH
3664PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3665 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3666 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3667 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3668 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3669
8857ccfd
PH
3670TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3671 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3672 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3673 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3674 or /domain=).
3675
433a2980
PH
3676PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3677 testing suite.
3678
3e46c1aa 3679
9a799bc0 3680
e3a311ba
TK
3681Exim version 4.53
3682-----------------
3683
3684TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3685 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3686
13b685f9
PH
3687PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3688
395ff96d
PH
3689PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3690
5b68f6e4
PH
3691PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3692 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3693 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3694
1ab52c69
PH
3695PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3696 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3697 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3698
b07e6aa3
PH
3699PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3700 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3701 operating systems.
3702
254e032f
PH
3703PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3704 ${stat: expansion item.
3705
3af76a81
PH
3706PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3707 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3708
2548ba04
PH
3709PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3710 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3711 file for comments.
3712
b6c6011d
PH
3713PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3714
cf39cf57
PH
3715PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3716 setting.
3717
f1513293
PH
3718PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3719 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3720
727549a4
PH
3721TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3722
af46795e
PH
3723PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3724 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3725 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3726 the end of the subprocess.
3727
d7b47fd0
PH
3728PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3729 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3730 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3731 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3732 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3733
ee744174
JJ
3734JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3735
b582ab87
PH
3736TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3737
41a13e0a
PH
3738PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3739 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3740
f625cc5a
PH
3741PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3742
3743PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3744
21f7af35
PH
3745PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3746 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3747 HP-UX compiler.
3748
31480e42
PH
3749PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3750
2d280592
PH
3751PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3752 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3753 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3754
7cd1141b
PH
3755PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3756 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3757
3758PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3759 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3760
750af86e
PH
3761PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3762 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3763
3764 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3765 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3766
3767 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3768 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3769 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3770 contributed by a Radius user.
3771
3772PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3773 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3774
4304270b
TK
3775TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3776 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3777
750af86e
PH
3778PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3779 available.
3780
64ffc24f
PH
3781PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3782 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3783 received.
3784
5dd9625b
PH
3785PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3786 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3787 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3788 header lines when this was not necessary.
3789
5591031b
PH
3790PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3791
ba18e66a
PH
3792PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3793 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3794 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3795 exists".
3796
9cec981f
PH
3797PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3798 -bV or -d is used.
3799
aa2b5c79
PH
3800PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3801 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3802 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3803 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3804
48a53b7f
PH
3805PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3806
1c59d63b
PH
3807PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3808
671012da
TK
3809TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3810
1509d3a8
PH
3811PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3812
3813PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3814 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3815 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3816 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3817 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3818 settings.
3819
3820PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3821
2fe1a124
PH
3822PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3823 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3824 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3825 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3826 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3827 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3828 which is clearly wrong.
3829
8800895a
PH
3830PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3831
ccfdb010
PH
3832PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3833 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3834 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3835 subsequently added.
3836
1130bfb0
PH
3837PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3838 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3839
ebcb507f
PH
3840PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3841
c35e155c
PH
3842PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3843 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3844
95d1f782
PH
3845PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3846 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3847
fd6de02e
PH
3848PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3849 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3850
58de37c5
PH
3851PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3852 recipients, not senders.
3853
261cf466
TF
3854TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3855 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3856
3ee512ff
PH
3857PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3858
e08c430f
PH
3859PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3860
bef5a11f
PH
3861PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3862 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3863 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3864 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3865
7546de58
TF
3866TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3867
e5d5a95f
TF
3868TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3869 clock is set back in time.
3870
2e88a017
TF
3871TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3872 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3873
a5f65aa4
TF
3874TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3875 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3876
e7726cbf
PH
3877PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3878 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3879 (see PH/47 above).
3880
a7fdad5b
TF
3881TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3882 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3883 header rewrites.
3884
6af56900
PH
3885PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3886 type ("H").
3887
0925ede6
PH
3888PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3889
66afa403
TF
3890TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3891 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3892 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3893
0154e85a
TF
3894TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3895 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3896 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3897 helo verification defer as a failure.
3898
16f12c76
PH
3899PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3900 actual error message.
3901
bbe902f0 3902
e5a9dba6
PH
3903Exim version 4.52
3904-----------------
3905
3906TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3907
22c3b60b
PH
3908PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3909 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3910 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3911 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3912
06a9b4b5
PH
3913TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3914
c1ac6996
PH
3915PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3916 can still be requested.
3917
9c7a242c
PH
3918PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3919 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3920 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3921 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3922
87ba3f5f
PH
3923TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3924 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3925 circumstances, but probably never did.
3926
3927PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3928 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3929 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3930 in the header line.
3931
29aba418
TF
3932TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3933
fe0dab11
TF
3934TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3935 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3936
11d337a4
TK
3937TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3938
3939TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3940
415c8f3b
PH
3941PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3942 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3943 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3944 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3945 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3946 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3947
958541e9
PH
3948PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3949 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3950 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3951 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3952 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3953 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3954
c206415f
TK
3955TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3956 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3957
2a4be8f9
PH
3958PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3959 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3960
1cba11c5
SC
3961SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3962 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3963
4c04137d 3964SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3965
3966SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3967
3968SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3969
3970SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3971
3972SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3973
3974SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3975
1005d00e
TK
3976TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3977
3978TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3979 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3980 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3981
3982TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3983 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3984 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3985 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3986
9b4768fa
PH
3987PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3988 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3989 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3990
3991PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3992 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3993 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3994 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3995
0d7eb84a
PH
3996PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3997 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3998 to be made).
3999
4000PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4001 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4002 should work with maildirs and everything.
4003
40727bee
TK
4004TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4005 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4006
554d2369
TF
4007TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4008 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4009
1f922db1
PH
4010PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4011 function for BDB 4.3.
4012
ef213c3b
PH
4013PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4014
8ac170f3
PH
4015PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4016 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4017 involved.
4018
b1c749bb
PH
4019PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4020 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4021 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4022 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4023 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4024 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4025
4aac9b49
PH
4026PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4027 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4028 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4029 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4030 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4031 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4032 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4033 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4034
294520c8
TK
4035TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4036 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4037 details.
4038
5bd022fe
PH
4039PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4040 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4041
90e9ce59
PH
4042PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4043 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4044 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4045 test. It is now used for both.
4046
5ea81592
PH
4047PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4048 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4049 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4050 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4051 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4052 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4053
c6c2dc1d
PH
4054PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4055 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4056 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4057 string_vformat().
4058
fffffe4c
PH
4059PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4060 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4061 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4062
9a26b6b2
PH
4063PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4064 experimental DomainKeys support:
4065
4066 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4067 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4068 the control was given.
4069
4070 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4071
4aee0225
PH
4072PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4073
32d668a5
PH
4074PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4075
8187c3f3
PH
4076PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4077 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4078 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4079 db.h files).
4080
ff790e47 4081PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4082 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4083 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4084 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4085 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4086 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4087 course.
ff790e47 4088
5417f6d1
PH
4089PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4090 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4091 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4092 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4093 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4094 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4095
59cf8544
PH
4096PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4097 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4098 do -d+all out of habit.
4099
e7ad8a65
PH
4100PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4101 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4102 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4103
ade42478
PH
4104PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4105 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4106 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4107 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4108 record types that Exim uses.
4109
182ad5cf
PH
4110PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4111 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4112 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4113 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4114 non-existent file that was broken.
4115
b0d9fc80
TK
4116TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4117 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4118
4119TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4120 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4121 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4122
4123TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4124
47c7a64a
PH
4125PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4126 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4127 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4128 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4129 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4130 same time.
4131
a388bce4
SC
4132SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4133 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4134 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4135 at a slight CPU cost.
4136
4137SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4138 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4139
4140SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4141 by Marc Sherman.
4142
0793e4ed
SC
4143SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4144
c58b88df
PH
4145PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4146 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4147
e7ad8a65 4148
7982096b
PH
4149Exim version 4.51
4150-----------------
4151
1a46a8c5
PH
4152TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4153 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4154
2f079f46 4155TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4156
4157TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4158
4159PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4160 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4161
4162PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4163 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4164 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4165 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4166 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4167 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4168 file.
4169
4170PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4171 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4172 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4173 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4174 these two options.
4175
4176PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4177 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4178 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4179 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4180 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4181 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4182 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4183 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4184
4185PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4186 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4187
4188PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4189 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4190 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4191 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4192 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4193 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4194
4195PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4196 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4197 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4198 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4199
4200PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4201 Finch).
4202
4203PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4204 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4205
49c2d5ea
PH
4206PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4207 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4208 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4209 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4210 message.
49c2d5ea 4211
bf759a8b
PH
4212PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4213
83364d30
PH
4214PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4215 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4216
7999bbd7
PH
4217PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4218 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4219 to what was transported.)
4220
7dbf77c9
PH
4221TF/01 Added $received_time.
4222
74e0617f
PH
4223PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4224 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4225 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4226 spamd_address settings.
4227
2f079f46
PH
4228PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4229 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4230 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4231 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4232 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4233
8c841523
PH
4234PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4235
7766a4f0
PH
4236PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4237 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4238 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4239 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4240 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4241
8b417f2c
PH
4242PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4243 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4244
901f42cb
PH
4245PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4246 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4247 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4248 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4249 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4250 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4251 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4252 for failure.
4253
f9b9210e
PH
4254PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4255 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4256 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4257 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4258 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4259 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4260 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4261 "input=".
4262
54cdb463
PH
4263PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4264
cf00dad6
PH
4265PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4266 driver and ACL definitions.
4267
acb1b346
PH
4268PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4269 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4270
c5ddb310
PH
4271PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4272 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4273 understands it better than I do:
4274
4275 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4276 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4277
4278 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4279 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4280 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4281 => three warnings about OTP not working
4282 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4283
4284 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4285 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4286 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4287 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4288 for each call.)
4289 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4290 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4291
4292 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4293 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4294 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4295
31619da6
PH
4296PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4297 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4298 specified.
4299
bebaf0fc
PH
4300PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4301 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4302 "Linux".
4303
475fe28a
PH
4304PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4305 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4306 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4307
4308 warn !verify = sender
4309 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4310
4311 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4312 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4313
7e8bec7a
PH
4314PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4315
4316 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4317 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4318
4319 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4320 nomenclature these days.)
4321
e4a89c47
PH
4322PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4323 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4324
5ca2a9a1
PH
4325PH/30 In these circumstances:
4326 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4327 . First host does not offer TLS;
4328 . First host accepts first address;
4329 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4330 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4331 . Second host accepts second address.
4332 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4333 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4334 address.
7e8bec7a 4335
c688b954
PH
4336PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4337 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4338 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4339 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4340 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4341
fed77020
PH
4342PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4343 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4344
7fe1560f
PH
4345PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4346 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4347
ebb6e6d5
PH
4348PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4349 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4350 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4351
9c4e8f60
PH
4352PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4353 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4354 overlooked.
4355
4356PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4357
d7174846
PH
4358PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4359 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4360 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4361 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4362 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4363 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4364 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4365
4366 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4367 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4368 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4369 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4370 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4371
4372 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4373 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4374 routed further.
4375
cfe75fc3
PH
4376PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4377 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4378 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4379 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4380 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4381 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4382
be22d70e
PH
4383PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4384
0612b098
PH
4385PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4386 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4387 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4388 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4389 printable escape sequences.
4390
2e0c1448
PH
4391PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4392 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4393 body only.
4394
447d236c
PH
4395PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4396 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4397 are as follows:
4398
4399 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4400 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4401 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4402 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4403 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4404
4405 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4406 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4407 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4408
d20976dc
PH
4409PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4410
f656d135
PH
4411PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4412 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4413 play with."
4414
2e2a30b4
PH
4415PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4416 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4417 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4418 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4419 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4420 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4421 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4422 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4423 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4424 the log output.
4425
9176e9f0
PH
4426PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4427 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4428 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4429 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4430 "make".
4431
7982096b 4432
bbe902f0
PH
4433A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4434----------------------------------------
4435
4436Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4437changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4438needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4439in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4440that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4441release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4442from 4.43.
4443
4444I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44454.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4446those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4447historical information.
4448
4449
f7b63901 4450Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4451-----------------
4452
5fe762f6
PH
4453 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4454
139059f6 4455 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4456 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4457
7086e875
PH
4458 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4459 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4460 place.
4461
35af9f61
PH
4462 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4463 filter fails to execute.
4464
b668c215
PH
4465 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4466 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4467 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4468 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4469 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4470
a494b1e1
PH
4471 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4472
4473 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4474 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4475 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4476 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4477
c5fcb476
PH
4478 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4479 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4480 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4481 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4482 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4483
69358f02
PH
4484 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4485
5be20824
PH
448610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4487
eb2c0248
PH
448811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4489 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4490 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4491 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4492
2a3eea10
PH
449312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4494 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4495 sender verification.
4496
449713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4498 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4499
23c7ff99
PH
450014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4501
4deaf07d
PH
450215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4503 connection timeout.
4504
926e1192
PH
450516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4506 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4507
650edc6f
PH
450817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4509 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4510
2c7db3f5
PH
451118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4512 information about exactly what failed.
4513
3d235903
PH
451419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4515
7c7ad977
PH
451620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4517 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4518 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4519
981756db
PH
452021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4521 It is now set to "smtps".
4522
d4eb88df
PH
452322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4524 ignore_target_hosts.
4525
452623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4527 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4528 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4529 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4530 "[x.x.x.x]".
4531
7d468ab8
PH
453224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4533 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4534 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4535
453625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4537 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4538 wake it up if nothing else does.
4539
62c0818f
PH
454026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4541 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4542 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4543 end up negative.
4544
26034054
PH
454527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4546 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4547
af66f652
PH
454828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4549
90af77f4
PH
455029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4551 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4552 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4553 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4554 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4555 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4556 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4557 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4558
d8ef3577
PH
455930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4560 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4561 than one IP address.
4562
5cb8cbc6
PH
456331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4564 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4565 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4566 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4567
14702f5b
PH
456832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4569 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4570 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4571 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4572 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4573 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4574
063b1e99
PH
457533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4576 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4577 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4578 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4579
652e1b65
PH
458034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4581 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4582 respected.
4583
6f0c9a4f
PH
458435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4585 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4586 $sender_host_address.
4587
33397d19
PH
458836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4589 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4590 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4591 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4592 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4593 very small.
4594
7bb56e1f
PH
459537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4596
4597 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4598 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4599
ea3bc19b
PH
4600 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4601 just the host names, not the priorities.
4602
4603 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4604 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4605 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4606
ea3bc19b 4607 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4608 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4609
0bcb2a0e
PH
461038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4611 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4612 domain.
4613
2ac0e484
PH
461439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4615
4e1fde53
PH
461640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4617 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4618
de365ded
PH
461941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4620 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4621 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4622
f05da2e8
PH
462342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4624
d6453af2
PH
462543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4626
f7b63901
PH
462744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4628
462945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4630 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4631 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4632 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4633 because the tests only now provoked it.
4634
a444213a
PH
463546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4636 (this can affect the format of dates).
4637
0ec020ea
PH
463847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4639 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4640 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4641 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4642
b1206957
PH
464348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4644
464549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4646 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4647 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4648 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4649
26dd5a95
PH
465050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4651 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4652 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4653
343b2385
PH
465451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4655 autoreply.
4656
1c5466b9
PH
465752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4658 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4659 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4660 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4661 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4662 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4663 is going on).
4664
55ee9ee3
PH
466553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4666 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4667 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4668 the line.
4669
d38f8232
PH
467054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4671 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4672 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4673
4674 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4675 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4676 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4677 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4678 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4679 so I produce this patch..."
4680
3295e65b
PH
4681 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4682 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4683 is not defined.
4684
7102e136
PH
468555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4686 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4687 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4688 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4689 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4690
3ca0ba97
PH
469156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4692
c2bcbe20
PH
469357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4694 long debug lines gets shown.
4695
18ce445d
PH
469658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4697 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4698
1f5b4c3d
PH
469959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4700
4701 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4702 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4703 of $primary_hostname.
4704
b975ba52
PH
470560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4706 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4707 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4708 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4709 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4710 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4711 by change 4.50/55 above.
4712
4713 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4714 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4715 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4716 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4717 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4718 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4719 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4720
472161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4722 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4723 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4724 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4725
17ffcae7
PH
472662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4727 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4728
d95f9fdb
PH
472963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4730 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4731 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4732 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4733 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4734
86b8287f
PH
473564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4736 This has been fixed.
4737
60dc5e56
PH
473865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4739 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4740 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4741 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4742 the caching.)
4743
533244af
PH
474466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4745
a5a28604
PH
474667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4747 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4748 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4749 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4750
7e634d24
PH
475168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4752 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4753
3e11c26b
PH
475469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4755 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4756 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4757
6729cf78
PH
475870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4759 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4760 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4761 message there.
4762
00f00ca5
PH
476371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4764 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4765 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4766
c9bdd01c
PH
476772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4768 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4769 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4770 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4771
d43194df
PH
477273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4773 during host lookups.
4774
fe5b5d0b
PH
477574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4776 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4777
4778 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4779
76a2d7ba
PH
478075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4781 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4782 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4783 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4784 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4785 background.
4786
478776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4788 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4789
04f7d5b9
PH
479077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4791 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4792 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4793
bc60667e
PH
479478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4795
bb6e88ff
PH
479679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4797 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4798 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4799 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4800 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4801 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4802 process earlier.
4803
1e70f85b
PH
480480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4805 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4806 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4807 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4808 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4809
481081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4811 tables).
4812
4e01f9d6
PH
481382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4814
1ee1cef2
PH
481583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4816 "vacation" handling.
4817
6e2b4ccc
PH
481884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4819 OS variants using glibc.
4820
8e669ac1
PH
482185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4822
495ae4b0 4823
bbe902f0
PH
4824----------------------------------------------------
4825See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4826----------------------------------------------------
4827
4828
4829Exim version 4.44
4830-----------------
4831
4832 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4833 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4834 transport
4835
4836 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4837 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4838 place.
4839
4840 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4841 filter fails to execute.
4842
4843 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4844 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4845 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4846 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4847 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4848
4849 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4850 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4851 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4852 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4853
4854 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4855 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4856 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4857 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4858 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4859
4860 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4861
4862 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4863 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4864 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4865 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4866
4867 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4868 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4869 sender verification.
4870
487110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4872 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4873
487411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4875 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4876
487712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4878 ignore_target_hosts.
4879
488013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4881 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4882 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4883 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4884 "[x.x.x.x]".
4885
488614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4887 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4888 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4889
489015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4891 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4892 wake it up if nothing else does.
4893
489416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4895 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4896 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4897 end up negative.
4898
489917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4900 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4901
ea3a6f44 490218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4903
490419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4905 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4906 empty pattern.
4907
490820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4909 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4910 one IP address.
4911
ea3a6f44
NM
491221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4913 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4914 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4915 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4916 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4917 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4918
ea3a6f44
NM
491922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4920 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4921 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4922
492323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4924 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4925 $sender_host_address.
4926
492724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4928
ea3a6f44
NM
492925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4930 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4931 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4932
493326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4934 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4935
ea3a6f44
NM
493627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4937 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4938
ea3a6f44
NM
493928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4940 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4941 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4942 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4943
494429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4945 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4946 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4947
ea3a6f44
NM
494830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4949 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4950 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4951 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4952
ea3a6f44
NM
495331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4954 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4955 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4956
ea3a6f44
NM
495731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4958 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4959
ea3a6f44
NM
496032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4961 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4962 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4963 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4964 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4965 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4966 is going on).
bbe902f0 4967
ea3a6f44
NM
496833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4969 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4970 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4971 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4972 CAN-2005-0021
4973
ea3a6f44
NM
497434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4975 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4976 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4977 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4978 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4979 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4980 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4981
4982 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4983 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4984 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4985 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4986 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4987 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4988 CAN-2005-0021
4989
ea3a6f44
NM
499035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4991 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4992 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4993 CAN-2005-0022
4994
ea3a6f44
NM
499536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4996 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4997 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4998 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4999 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5000
ea3a6f44
NM
500137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5002 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5003 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5004 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5005 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5006
ea3a6f44
NM
500738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5008 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5009 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5010 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5011 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5012
5013
495ae4b0
PH
5014Exim version 4.43
5015-----------------
5016
5017 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5018 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5019 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5020 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5021 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5022 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5023 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5024
5025 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5026 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5027 the delivery.
5028
5029 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5030
5031 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5032
5033 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5034 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5035 to local_scan().
5036
5037 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5038 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5039 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5040 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5041 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5042
5043 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5044 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5045
5046 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5047
5048 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5049
505010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5051 header_sender only.
5052
505311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5054 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5055
505612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5057 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5058 affecting debugging statements).
5059
506013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5061
506214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5063 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5064 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5065 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5066 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5067 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5068 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5069 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5070 after the received time, and all would be well.
5071
507215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5073 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5074 condition in an expansion string.
5075
507616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5077
507817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5079 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5080 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5081 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5082 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5083 job under whatever limits there are.
5084
508518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5086
508719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5088 space).
5089
509020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5091 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5092 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5093 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5094 return path is set.
5095
509621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5097 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5098 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5099 binary data in such strings.
5100
510122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5102
510323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5104 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5105 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5106 failure, which is pointless.
5107
510824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5109
511025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5111
511226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5113 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5114 Sender: header lines.
5115
511627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5117 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5118 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5119
512028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5121 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5122 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5123 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5124 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5125 happens.
5126
512729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5128 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5129 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5130 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5131 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5132
513330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5134 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5135 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5136 1024.
5137
513831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5139 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5140
514132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5142 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5143
514433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5145
514632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5147
514833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5149
515034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5151 syntax error.
5152
515335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5154
515536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5156
515737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5158 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5159 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5160 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5161
516238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5163 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5164
5165
5166Exim version 4.42
5167-----------------
5168
5169 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5170 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5171 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5172 it was not quoted.
5173 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5174 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5175 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5176 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5177 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5178 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5179
5180 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5181 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5182 verification failure".
5183
5184 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5185 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5186 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5187 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5188
5189 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5190 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5191 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5192 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5193 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5194 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5195 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5196 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5197 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5198 treated as a timeout.
5199
5200 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5201 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5202 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5203 not set for Exim filters).
5204
5205 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5206 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5207 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5208
5209 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5210
5211 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5212 try to make them clearer.
5213
5214 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5215 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5216
5217 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5218
5219 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5220
522110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5222 only the Cygwin environment.
5223
522411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5225 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5226 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5227 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5228 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5229
523012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5231 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5232 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5233 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5234 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5235 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5236 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5237
523813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5239 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5240
524114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5242
5243 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5244 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5245 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5246
5247 To: susanne@some.where
5248
5249 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5250 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5251 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5252 of addresses in From: header lines).
5253
5254 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5255 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5256 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5257
5258 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5259 treated as non-personal.
5260
5261 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5262 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5263
526415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5265
526616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5267
526817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5269 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5270 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5271
527218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5273 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5274
527519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5276 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5277 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5278 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5279 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5280 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5281
528220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5283 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5284 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5285 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5286 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5287 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5288 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5289 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5290
5291 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5292
529321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5294 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5295
529622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5297 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5298 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5299
530023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5301 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5302
530324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5304 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5305 rather than long int.
5306
530725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5308
530926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5310
5311
5312Exim version 4.41
5313-----------------
5314
5315 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5316 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5317 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5318 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5319 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5320 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5321
5322
5323Exim version 4.40
5324-----------------
5325
5326 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5327 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5328
5329 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5330 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5331 socklen_t is defined.
5332
5333 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5334 always exist.
5335
5336 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5337 configured.
5338
5339 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5340 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5341 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5342 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5343 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5344
5345 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5346 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5347 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5348 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5349
5350 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5351 of flapping under certain conditions.
5352
5353 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5354 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5355 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5356
5357 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5358
535910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5360
536111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5362 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5363 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5364 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5365
536612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5367 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5368 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5369 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5370 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5371 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5372 preserved with the message after it was received.
5373
537413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5375 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5376 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5377 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5378 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5379 test suite worked just fine.
5380
538114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5382 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5383 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5384
538515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5386 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5387 string.
5388
538916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5390 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5391 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5392 does not fully solve it.
5393
539417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5395 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5396 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5397 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5398 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5399
540018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5401 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5402 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5403
540419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5405 string, for example:
5406
5407 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5408
5409 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5410 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5411 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5412 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5413 the routers could not see them.
5414
541520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5416 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5417
541821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5419 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5420 output).
5421
542222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5423 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5424 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5425 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5426 that needed quoting.
5427
542823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5429 was not being matched caselessly.
5430
543124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5432 backslashes.
5433
543425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5435 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5436 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5437 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5438 when use_sender is false.
5439
544026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5441
544227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5443
544428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5445
544629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5447 the configuration file.
5448
544930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5450 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5451
545231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5453
545432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5455 bytes in the message body.
5456
545733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5458 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5459 delivery.
5460
546134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5462
546335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5464
546536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5466 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5467 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5468 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5469 another IP address.
5470
5471
5472Exim version 4.34
5473-----------------
5474
5475 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5476 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5477
5478 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5479 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5480 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5481 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5482 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5483
5484 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5485 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5486
5487 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5488 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5489 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5490
5491 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5492 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5493 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5494
5495 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5496 for routers.
5497
5498 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5499 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5500 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5501 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5502 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5503 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5504 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5505
5506
5507Exim version 4.33
5508-----------------
5509
5510 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5511 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5512 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5513 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5514 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5515 default (and expected) setting.
5516
5517 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5518 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5519 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5520 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5521
5522 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5523 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5524
5525 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5526 in domain lists.
5527
5528 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5529 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5530 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5531 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5532 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5533 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5534
5535 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5536 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5537 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5538
5539 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5540 part (NOT match_host).
5541
5542 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5543
5544 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5545 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5546 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5547 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5548 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5549 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5550 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5551 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5552 the same named file.
5553
555410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5555 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5556 when Exim is built.
5557
555811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5559 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5560 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5561 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5562 a host name.
5563
556412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5565 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5566 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5567
556813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5569
557014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5571
557215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5573
557416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5575 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5576
557717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5578 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5579 before starting the TLS session.
5580
558118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5582
558319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5584 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5585
558620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5587 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5588 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5589 colon in the middle).
5590
5591
5592Exim version 4.32
5593-----------------
5594
5595 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5596 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5597 multiple configurations are in use.
5598
5599 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5600 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5601 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5602 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5603 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5604 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5605
5606 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5607 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5608
5609 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5610 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5611 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5612
5613 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5614 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5615 occurs.
5616
5617 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5618 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5619
5620 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5621
5622 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5623 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5624
5625 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5626
5627 -prval:sval
5628
5629 is equivalent to
5630
5631 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5632
5633 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5634 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5635 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5636 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5637 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5638
563910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5640 Exim's behaviour:
5641
5642 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5643 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5644 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5645 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5646 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5647 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5648
5649 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5650 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5651 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5652 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5653 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5654 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5655 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5656 string.
5657
5658 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5659 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5660 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5661 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5662 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5663
566411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5665
566612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5667 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5668 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5669
567013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5671
567214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5673 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5674 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5675 information.
5676
567715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5678 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5679
568016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5681 Three changes have been made:
5682
5683 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5684 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5685 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5686 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5687 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5688
5689 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5690 been restored.
5691
5692 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5693 the modified behaviour.
5694
5695
5696Exim version 4.31
5697-----------------
5698
5699 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5700 Larry Rosenman.
5701
5702 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5703 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5704
5705 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5706 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5707 try to track down a specific problem.
5708
5709 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5710 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5711 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5712
5713 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5714 warning.
5715
5716 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5717 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5718 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5719 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5720 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5721 some earlier ones do not.
5722
5723 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5724
5725 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5726 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5727 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5728 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5729 address literals are enabled, of course).
5730
5731 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5732
573310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5734 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5735 by a command such as
5736
5737 exim -f "" ...
5738
5739 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5740
574111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5742
574312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5744 remained set. It is now erased.
5745
574613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5747 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5748
574914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5750 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5751 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5752 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5753 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5754 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5755 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5756 appropriate error code.
5757
575815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5759 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5760 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5761 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5762 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5763 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5764
576516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5766 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5767 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5768
576917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5770 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5771 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5772 terminate the header.
5773
577418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5775 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5776 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5777
577819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5779 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5780 (4.30/29). In particular:
5781
5782 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5783 imposed.
5784
5785 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5786 to write a maildirsize file.
5787
5788 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5789 the transport, the new value overrides.
5790
5791 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5792 count.
5793
579420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5795 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5796 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5797 space or a tab.
5798
579921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5800 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5801 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5802 the fallback hosts.
5803
580422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5805 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5806 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5807
580823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5809 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5810 using a union.
5811
581224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5813 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5814 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5815
581625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5817
581826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5819
582027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5821
582228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5823 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5824 become corrupted.
5825
582629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5827 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5828 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5829 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5830 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5831 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5832 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5833 too great.
5834
583530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5836 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5837 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5838 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5839 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5840 incorrectly.
5841
584231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5843 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5844 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5845 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5846 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5847 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5848 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5849 cached value only when the same options are set.
5850
585132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5852
585333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5854 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5855 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5856 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5857 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5858
585934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5860 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5861 it is clearly obsolete.
5862
586335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5864 transport.
5865
586636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5867 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5868 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5869 times.
5870
587137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5872 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5873 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5874 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5875 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5876
587738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5878 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5879 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5880 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5881
588239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5883
5884 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5885
5886 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5887 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5888 2^31.
5889
589040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5891 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5892 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5893 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5894 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5895 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5896 $localpart_data.
5897
589841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5899 with the -f command-line option.
5900
590142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5902 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5903 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5904 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5905 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5906 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5907
590843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5909 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5910 line.
5911
591244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5913 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5914 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5915 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5916 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5917 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5918 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5919 buffer is too small.
5920
592145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5922 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5923
592446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5925 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5926 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5927 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5928 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5929 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5930 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5931 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5932 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5933
593447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5935 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5936 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5937
593848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5939 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5940 ACL").
5941
594249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5943 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5944 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5945 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5946 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5947
594850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5949 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5950 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5951 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5952 is set.
5953
595451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5955
595652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5957
595853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5959 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5960
596154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5962 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5963 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5964
596555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5966 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5967 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5968 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5969 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5970
597156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5972 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5973 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5974 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5975 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5976 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5977 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5978
597957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5980 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5981 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5982 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5983 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5984 the test of how many are available.
5985
598658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5987 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5988 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5989 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5990 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5991 new message is started.
5992
599359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5994 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5995
599660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5997 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5998
599961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6000 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6001 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6002 is no long logged.
6003
600462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6005 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6006 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6007 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6008 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6009 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6010 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6011
601263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6013 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6014 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6015 interpreted as octal.
6016
601764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6018 setting.
6019
602065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6021 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6022 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6023 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6024 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6025 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6026
602766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6028 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6029 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6030 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6031
6032 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6033 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6034 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6035 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6036
6037 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6038 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6039 is a bug fix.
6040
6041 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6042 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6043
604467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6045
604668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6047 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6048 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6049 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6050
605169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6052 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6053 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6054 supplied", which is not helpful.
6055
605670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6057 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6058 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6059
606071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6061 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6062 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6063 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6064 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6065 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6066 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6067 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6068
606972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6070 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6071 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6072 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6073 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6074
607573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6076 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6077 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6078 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6079 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6080 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6081
608274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6083 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6084 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6085
608675. Added write_rejectlog option.
6087
608876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6089 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6090 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6091 variables.
6092
609377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6094
609578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6096 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6097 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6098 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6099 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6100 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6101 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6102 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6103
610479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6105 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6106 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6107 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6108 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6109
611080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6111 Haardt.
6112
611381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6114 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6115 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6116 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6117 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6118 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6119 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6120 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6121 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6122
6123
6124Exim version 4.30
6125-----------------
6126
6127 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6128 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6129 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6130
6131 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6132 fixed.
6133
6134 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6135 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6136 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6137
6138 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6139 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6140 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6141 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6142 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6143 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6144
6145 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6146 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6147 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6148 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6149 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6150 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6151 the Exim test suite.
6152
6153 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6154 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6155 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6156 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6157
6158 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6159 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6160 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6161 specify it in this variable.
6162
6163 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6164 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6165 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6166 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6167
6168 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6169 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6170 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6171 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6172
6173 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6174 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6175 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6176 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6177 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6178
6179 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6180
618110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6182 they are logged.
6183
618411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6185 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6186 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6187 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6188 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6189
619012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6191 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6192
619313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6194 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6195 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6196 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6197 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6198
619914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6200 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6201
620215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6203 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6204 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6205
620616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6207 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6208
620917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6210 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6211
621218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6213 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6214 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6215
621619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6217 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6218
621920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6220 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6221 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6222 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6223
622421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6225
622622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6227 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6228 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6229 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6230
623123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6232
623324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6234 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6235
623625. Added .include_if_exists.
6237
623826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6239 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6240 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6241 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6242 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6243 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6244
624527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6246
624728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6248 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6249 this.
6250
625129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6252
625330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6254 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6255
6256 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6257 550 Sender verify failed
6258
6259 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6260 the final line of the response.
6261
626231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6263 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6264 all other user lookups.
6265
626632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6267 delivery time.
6268
626933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6270 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6271 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6272 result into an int without checking.
6273
627434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6275 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6276 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6277
627835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6279 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6280 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6281 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6282
628336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6284 correctly.
6285
628637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6287 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6288
628938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6290 to the empty sender.
6291
629239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6293 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6294 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6295 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6296 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6297 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6298 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6299 panic log.
6300
630140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6302 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6303 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6304 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6305 used.
6306
630741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6308 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6309
631042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6311 timestamps.
6312
631343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6314 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6315
631644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6317
631845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6319 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6320 logs.
6321
632246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6323 as soon as it is encountered.
6324
632547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6326
632748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6328 rewritten to "<>".
6329
633049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6331 recognizes a tab character.
6332
633350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6334 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6335 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6336 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6337
633851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6339
634052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6341 crash.
6342
634353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6344
634554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6346
634755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6348 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6349 2822.
6350
635156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6352 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6353 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6354 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6355 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6356
635757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6358 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6359
636058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6361 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6362 list (.included file names were always shown).
6363
636459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6365 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6366 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6367 root at that time.
6368
636960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6370 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6371
637261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6373
637462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6375
637663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6377
637864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6379 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6380 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6381 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6382 failures to open the logs.
6383
638465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6385 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6386 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6387 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6388 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6389 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6390 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6391
6392
6393Exim version 4.24
6394-----------------
6395
6396 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6397 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6398 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6399 change 4.23/1.
6400
6401 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6402 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6403 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6404
6405 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6406 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6407 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6408
6409 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6410 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6411 causing some misleading effects.
6412
6413 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6414 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6415 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6416
6417 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6418 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6419 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6420 queue-runner function directly.
6421
6422
6423Exim version 4.23
6424-----------------
6425
6426 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6427 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6428
6429 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6430 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6431 was always written to the default place.
6432
6433 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6434 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6435 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6436
6437 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6438
6439 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6440
6441 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6442 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6443 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6444
6445 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6446 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6447 must start.
6448
6449 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6450 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6451 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6452
6453 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6454 command line option is disabled.
6455
6456 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6457 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6458
6459 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6460
6461 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6462
6463 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6464 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6465
646610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6467
646811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6469 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6470 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6471 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6472 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6473 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6474
647512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6476 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6477 timeout.
6478
647913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6480 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6481
648214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6483 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6484
648515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6486 received was valid base64.
6487
648816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6489 name of the variable that was being set.
6490
649117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6492
649318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6494 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6495 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6496 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6497 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6498 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6499
650019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6501
650220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6503 nor realm was specified.
6504
650521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6506 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6507 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6508 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6509
651022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6511 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6512 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6513
651423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6515 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6516 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6517
651824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6519 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6520 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6521 some systems use these upper case variants.
6522
652325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6524 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6525 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6526 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6527
652826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6529
653027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6531 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6532
653328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6534 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6535 expansion variable.
6536
653729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6538
653930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6540 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6541 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6542 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6543
654431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6545 using it.
6546
654732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6548 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6549 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6550
655133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6552 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6553
655434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6555 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6556 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6557 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6558
655935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6560 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6561 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6562
656336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6564
656537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6566 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6567 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6568 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6569 aborted.
6570
657138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6572 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6573 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6574
657539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6576
657740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6578 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6579
658041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6581 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6582
658342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6584 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6585 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6586 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6587 when emails are that large.
6588
6589
6590
6591Exim version 4.22
6592-----------------
6593
6594 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6595 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6596
6597 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6598 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6599 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6600
6601 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6602 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6603 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6604
6605 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6606 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6607 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6608 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6609 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6610
6611 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6612 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6613 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6614 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6615 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6616 ever.
6617
6618 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6619 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6620 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6621 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6622 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6623 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6624 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6625 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6626 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6627 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6628 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6629 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6630 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6631 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6632
6633 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6634 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6635 parameterised it.
6636
6637 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6638 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6639 error should be diagnosed.
6640
6641 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6642 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6643 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6644 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6645 appeared instead of "NULL".
6646
664710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6648 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6649 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6650 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6651 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6652 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6653 proceeds).
6654
6655 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6656 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6657 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6658
6659
6660Exim version 4.21
6661-----------------
6662
6663 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6664 or receiver verification errors.
6665
6666 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6667 name.
6668
6669 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6670 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6671 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6672 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6673
6674 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6675 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6676 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6677 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6678 shouldn't happen again.
6679
6680 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6681 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6682 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6683
6684 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6685 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6686
6687 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6688
6689 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6690 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6691
6692 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6693 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6694 RFC.
6695
669610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6697 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6698 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6699
670011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6701 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6702 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6703 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6704
670512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6706 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6707 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6708 to define what should happen).
6709
671013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6711 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6712 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6713
671414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6715
671615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6717
671816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6719 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6720
4c04137d 672117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6722 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6723 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6724 structure in all cases.
6725
6726 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6727 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6728 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6729 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6730
673118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6732 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6733 domain name.
6734
673519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6736 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6737
673820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6739 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6740
674121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6742 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6743 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6744
674522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6746 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6747 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6748
674923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6750 the book and for uniformity.
6751
675224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6753
675425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6755 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6756 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6757 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6758 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6759 non-existent command as the problem.
6760
676126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6762 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6763 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6764
676527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6766
676728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6768 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6769 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6770
677129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6772 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6773 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6774 timestamps using strftime().
6775
677630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6777 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6778
677932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6780 transport-time rewrites.
6781
678233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6783 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6784 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6785 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6786
678734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6788 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6789
679035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6791 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6792 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6793 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6794 comma and a space.
6795
679636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6797 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6798 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6799 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6800 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6801 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6802 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6803
680437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6805 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6806 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6807 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6808 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6809
681038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6811 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6812 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6813 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6814 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6815 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6816 remaining text gets split now.
6817
681839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6819 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6820 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6821 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6822
682340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6824 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6825 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6826 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6827 $return_path.
6828
682941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6830 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6831 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6832 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6833 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6834 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6835 passed through if needed.
6836
683742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6838 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6839 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6840 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6841 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6842 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6843
684443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6845 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6846 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6847 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6848 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6849
685044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6851 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6852 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6853 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6854 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6855
685645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6857 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6858 noticed.
6859
686046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6861 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6862 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6863 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6864 mayhem of various kinds.
6865
686647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6867 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6868 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6869 the right test for positive values.
6870
687148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6872 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6873 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6874 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6875 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6876 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6877 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6878 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6879 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6880 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6881 envelope.
6882
688349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6884 module.
6885
688650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6887 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6888 forbidding it.
6889
689051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6891 the existing equality matching.
6892
689352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6894 dealing with inode numbers.
6895
689653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6897 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6898 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6899
690054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6901 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6902 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6903 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6904 local_scan().
6905
690655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6907 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6908 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6909 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6910 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6911 relay addresses has also been removed.
6912
691356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6914
691557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6916 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6917 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6918
691958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6920 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6921 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6922 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6923 processing applies to CR:
6924
6925 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6926 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6927
6928 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6929 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6930 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6931 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6932
693359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6934 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6935 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6936
693760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6938 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6939 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6940 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6941 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6942 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6943 arisen.
6944
694561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6946 program routers.
6947
694862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6949 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6950 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6951 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6952 adds:
6953
6954 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6955
6956 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6957
6958 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6959
696063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6961 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6962 not considered personal.
6963
696464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6965
696665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6967
696866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6969
697067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6971 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6972 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6973 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6974 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6975 header lines, and spool format errors.
6976
697768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6978 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6979 for more flexibility.
6980
698169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6982 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6983 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6984
698570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6986 Sabourenkov.
6987
698871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6989 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6990 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6991 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6992 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6993 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6994 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6995 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6996 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6997
699872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6999 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7000 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7001 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7002 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7003 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7004 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7005
700673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7007 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7008 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7009
701074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7011 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7012 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7013 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7014 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7015 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7016 instead of killing the process with assert().
7017
701875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7019 than Unicode encoding.
7020
702176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7022 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7023 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7024 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7025
702677. Added process_log_path.
7027
702878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7029 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7030
703179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7032 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7033
703480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7035 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7036 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7037
703881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7039 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7040 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7041 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7042 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7043 were applied:
7044
7045 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7046 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7047 as invalid.
7048
704982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7050 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7051 they will be used during message reception.
7052
7053
7054Exim version 4.20
7055-----------------
7056
7057The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7058
7059****