ARC: Fix verification to do AS checks in reverse order
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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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8Exim version 4.92
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
75
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76JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
77
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c39c8870 82GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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83 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
84 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
85 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
86 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
87 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 88
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89GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
90 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
91
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92JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
93 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
94 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
95 extant use locations.
96
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97JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
98 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
99
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100JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
101 Previously only the last row was returned.
102
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103JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
104 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
105 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
106 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
107 input.
108
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109JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
110 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
111 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
112 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
113 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
114 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
115 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
116 Main pool for expansions.
117 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
118 active in the testsuite.
119 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
120
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121JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
122 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
123 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
124 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
125 round-robin DNS.
126
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127JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
128 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
129 failure response.
130
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131JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
132 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
133 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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135JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
136 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
137 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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139JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
140 rows affected is given instead).
141
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142JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
143 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
144
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145JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
146 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
147 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
148 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
149 for all multi-message initiating connections.
150
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151JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
152 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
153 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
154
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155JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
156 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
157 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
158 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
159 separate.
160
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161JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
162 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
163 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
164 fake-reject.
165
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166HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
167
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168JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
169 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
170
aab9a843 171PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 172 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 173 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 174
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175JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
176 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
177 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
178 and send a quit.
179
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180JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
181 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
182
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183JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
184 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
185 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
186
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187JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
188 for the build is renamed.
189
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190JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
191 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
192 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
193
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194JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
195 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
196 result replacing the original.
197
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198JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
199 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
200 and the resources needed to be freed.
201
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202JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
203
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204JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
205 was not propagated.
206
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207JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
208 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
209 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
210 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
211
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212JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
213 length value. Previously this would segfault.
214
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215HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
216 newer versions of the scanner.
217
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218JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
219 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
220 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
221 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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222 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
223 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
224 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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226JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
227 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
228 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
229 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
230 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
231 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
232 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
233 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
234 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
235 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
236
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237JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
238 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
239
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240JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
241
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242HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
243 allows proper process termination in container environments.
244
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245JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
246 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
247
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248JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
249 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
250 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
251
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252JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
253 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
254 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 255 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 256
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257JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
258 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
259 would be spooled.
260
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261PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
262 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
263
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264HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
265 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
266 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
267 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
268 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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270JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
271 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
272 lines.
273
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274JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
275 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
276
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277PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
278 suffix list.
279
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280JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
281 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
282 "bare" representation.
283
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284JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
285 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
286 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
287 corrupted the output.
288
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293JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
294 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
295 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
296 pairs of long lines into single ones.
297
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298PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
299 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
300
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301JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
302 This permits better logging.
303
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304JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
305 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
306 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
307 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
308 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 309 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
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312 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
313 "exiwhat" output.
314
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315PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
316 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
317 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
318
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319JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
320 than 255 are no longer allowed.
321
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322JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
323 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
324 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
325 client, there is no benefit for these.
326 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
327 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
328 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
329 is used (3.2.4 +).
330
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331PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
332 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
333
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334JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
335 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
336 erroneously found still-pending ones.
337
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338JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
339 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
340
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341JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
342 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
343 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
344 signature and again for transmission.
345
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346JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
347 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 348 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 349
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350JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
351 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
352 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
353 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
354 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
355 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
356 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
357
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358JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
359 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
360 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 361 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 362
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363PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
364 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
365 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
366 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
367 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
368 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
369 processing options.
370
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371JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
372 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
373 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
374 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
375 connections.
925ac8e4 376
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377PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
378 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
379 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
380 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
381 versions.
382
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383JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
384 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
385 inaccessible.
386
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387JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
388 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
389 banner-time rejection.
390
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391JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
392 callout/hold.
393
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394PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
395 is the name of a transport.
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396 Fixes bug 2140.
397
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398HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
399
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400JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
401 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
402
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403JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
404 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
405 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
406 during compilation.
407
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408JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
409 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
410 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 411 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 412
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413JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
414 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
415 initial verify call returned a defer.
416
ad1a76fe 417JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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418 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
419
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420JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
421 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
422
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423JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
424 if present. Previously it was ignored.
425
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426JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
427 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
428
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429JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
430 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
431 extensible.
432
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433PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
434 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
435
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436PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
437 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
438 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
439
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440JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
441 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
442 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
443 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
444
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445HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
446 and confused the parent.
447
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448JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
449 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
450
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451JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
452 for log purposes.
453
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454JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
455 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
456 out-of-order delivery.
457
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458JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
459 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
460 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
461 error for the HELO.
462
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463JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
464 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
465 desynchronisation.
466
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467JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
468 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
469 one run was done. Bug 2189.
470
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471JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
472 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
473 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
474 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
475 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
476 message is still "Temporary local problem".
477
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478JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
479 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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480 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
481
482HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
483 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
484 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 485
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486JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
487 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
488 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
489 though a different problem.
490
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9427e879 495JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 496 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 497
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498JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
499
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500PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
501 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
502
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503JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
504 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
505
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506JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
507 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
508 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
509 before acknowledging the chunk.
510
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511PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
512 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
513 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
514
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515JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
516 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
517 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
518 should.
519
520JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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521 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
522 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 523
bd8fbe36 524JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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525 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
526
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527JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
528 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
529 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
530 body hash calculated value.
531
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532JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
533 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
534 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
535
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536JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
537
538JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
539 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
540
541JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
542 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
543 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
544
545JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
546 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
547 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
548 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
549 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
550 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
551
552JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
553 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
554 past that check, despite the cost.
555
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556JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
557 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
558 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
559
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560PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
561 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
562 TLS library to consume.
563
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564PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
565
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566PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
567
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568JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
569 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
570 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
571 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
572 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
573 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
574 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
575
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576PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
577
578PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
579
580PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
581 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
582 should be warning-free.
583
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584JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
585
586HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
587 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
588
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589HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
590 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
591 general solution here.
592
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593PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
594 already-broken messages in the queue.
595
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596JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
597
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598JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
599
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604JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
605 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 606
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607JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
608 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
609 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
610
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611JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
612 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
613 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
614 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
615 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
616 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
617 if one fails this test.
618 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
619 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
620
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621JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
622 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
623
23bb6982 624JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 625 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 626
0bd1b1ed 627JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 628 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 629
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630JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
631 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
632
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633JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
634 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
635
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636JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
637
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638JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
639 certificate).
640
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641JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
642 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
643 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
644 connection after a verify cache hit.
645 Do not update it with the verify result either.
646
647JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
648 when routing results in more than one destination address.
649
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650JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
651 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
652 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
653 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
654 when the cutthrough connection is made).
655
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656JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
657 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
658
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659JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
660 Previously they were not counted.
661
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662JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
663 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
664 that needed the lookup.
665
4c04137d 666JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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667 distinguished as "(=".
668
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669JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
670 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
671
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672JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
673
674JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
675 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 676
4c04137d 677JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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678 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
679
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680JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
681 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
682 compatible.
683
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684JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
685 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
686 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
687 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
688
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689JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
690
f59aaaaa 691JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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692 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
693 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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695JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
696 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
697 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
698 be lost.
699
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700JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
701 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
702 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
703 itself :(
704
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705JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
706 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
707 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
708
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709JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
710 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
711 options.
712
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713JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
714
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715PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
716 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
717
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718PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
719 are not in the system include path.
720
ad7fc6eb 721JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 722 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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723 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
724 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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726JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
727 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
728 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
729
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730JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
731
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732HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
733 an incoming connection.
734
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735HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
736 to rspamd.
737
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738HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
739 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 740
87cb4a16 741JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 742 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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748JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
749 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
750 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
751 client dropping the TLS connection.
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753TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
754 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
755
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756TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
757 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
758 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
759 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
760 outgoing I= field.
761
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762JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
763 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
764 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
765 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
766 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
767 check on the next write.
768
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769HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
770 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
771 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
772 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
773 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
774
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775JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
776 mime_regex ACL conditions.
777
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778JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
779 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
780 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
781
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782JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
783 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
784 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
785 an authenticate fail is not an error.
786
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787HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
788 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
789
4c04137d 790JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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791 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
792
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793JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
794 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
795 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
796 distinct.
797
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798JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
799
800JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
801
ec0eb1a3
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802JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
803
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804JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
805 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
806
98b98887 807JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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808 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
809
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810JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
811
858e91c2
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812JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
813 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
814
815JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
816
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817JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
818 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
819
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820JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
821
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822JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
823 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 824 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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825 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
826 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
827 they will retry in-clear.
828 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
829 at installation time.
830
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831HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
832 with the $config_file variable.
833
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834JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
835 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
836 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
837 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 838 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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840GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
841 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
842 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
843 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
844 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
845
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846JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
847
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848JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
849 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
850 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
851 list order is no longer honoured.
852
4c04137d 853JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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854 for DKIM processing.
855
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856JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
857 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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859JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
860 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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861 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
862 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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864JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
865 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
866
2d8d625b
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867JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
868 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
869
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870JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
871 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
872
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873JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
874
ce325893
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875JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
876 cached by the daemon.
877
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878JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
879 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
880
379ba7d0
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881JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
882 keys are given for lookup.
883
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884JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
885 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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886 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
887 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 888
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889JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
890 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
891 server-side so match that on older versions.
892
07c73177 893JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 894 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 895 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 896
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897JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
898 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
899
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900JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
901 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
902 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 903 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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904 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
905 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
906 initial truncated version.
907
ab9152ff 908JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 909
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910JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
911
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912JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
913 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
914
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915JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
916
bc3c7bb7 917HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 918
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919JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
920 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
921 induced overflows.
922
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923JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
924 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
925 stage.
926
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927JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
928 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
929
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930JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
931 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
932 former class.
933
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934JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
935 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
936 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
937
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938JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
939 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
940 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
941 extraction. Accept either.
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947JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
948 expanded.
949
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950JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
951
ad07e9ad
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952JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
953 it.
954
01a4a5c5 955JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 956 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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957 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
958 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
959
cb1d7830 960JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 961 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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962 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
963
610ff438 964JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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965 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
966 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
967 TLS connections
610ff438 968
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969JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
970 sites use this now.
971
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972JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
973 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
974 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
975 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
976 have a dsn_lasthop option.
977
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978JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
979 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 980 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 981
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982JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
983
aeaf5db3
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984JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
985 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
986
5032d1cf
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987JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
988 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
989
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990JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
991 /defer_ok option.
992
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993JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
994 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
995
fd4d8871 996JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 997 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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998 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
999
1000JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1001 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1002 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1003
23763898
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1004JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1005 timeout value per server.
1006
2ad78978
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1007JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1008 now have the list separator specified.
1009
8a512ed5 1010JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1011 option values.
8a512ed5 1012
82c0c8ea 1013JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1014 under OpenSSL.
1015
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1016JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1017
82c0c8ea
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1018JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1019 rather than the verbs used.
1020
b980ed83
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1021JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1022 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1023
6c9ed72e
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1024JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1025
cfab9d68 1026HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1027 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1028
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1029JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1030 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1031
fd4c285c
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1032HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1033 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1034
4c04137d 1035JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1036
d2a2c69b
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1037JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1038
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1039JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1040 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1041 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1042 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1043
1f12df4d
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1044JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1045
1f155f8e
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1046JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1047 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1048
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1049JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1050 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1051
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1052JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1053
474f71bf
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1054JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1055
7137ca4b
JH
1056JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1057
dcb1095c
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1058JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1059 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1060
2f460950
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1061JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1062 added for tls authenticator.
1063
2f680c0c
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1064HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1065
9c695f6d 1066
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1070TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1071 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1072 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1073 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1074 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1075 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1076 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1077
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1078TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1079 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1080 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1081 function when detected.
1082
a9b8ec8b
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1083JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1084 cause callback expansion.
1085
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1086TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1087 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1088 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1089 instead of bool when processing it.
1090
0f06b4f2 1091JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1092 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1093
be36e572
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1094JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1095
ac4ef9bd
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1096JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1097
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1098TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1099
c713ca4b
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1100TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1101 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1102
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1103JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1104 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1105 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1106 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1107 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1108 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1109
8bc732e8
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1110JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1111 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1112 exceeded it.
1113
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1114JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1115 version 3.3.6 or later.
1116
4c04137d 1117JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1118 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1119 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1120 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1121 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1122 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1123 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1124
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1125TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1126 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1127
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1128JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1129 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1130 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1131 matches.
1132
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1133JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1134 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1135 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1136
ad4c5ff9
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1137JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1138 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1139
1140JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1141 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1142 syntax errors.
1143
3394b36a 1144JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1145
1146JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1147 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1148
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1149TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1150 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1151 tarball.
1152
ad4c5ff9
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1153JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1154
4c04137d 1155JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1156 Bug 1561.
1157
1158JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1159 output list separator was used.
1160
8bc732e8 1161
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1164TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1165 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1166 return.
1f0ebb98 1167
a612424f 1168JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1169 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1170
1171JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1172
1173TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1174 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1175
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1179
1180TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1181
1182 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1183 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1184 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1185 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1186 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1187 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1188
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1189TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1190 utilities have not been installed.
1191
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1192JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1193 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1194
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1195TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1196 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1197
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1198TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1199 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1200 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1201 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1202
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1203JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1204
5a1b8443
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1205TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1206 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1207
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1208PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1209 not dns_use_dnssec.
1210
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1211JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1212
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1213TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1214 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1215 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1216
8ddef691 1217TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1218 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1219 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1220 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1221 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1222 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1223
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1224JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1225
e45a1c37
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1226JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1227 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1228
67d81c10
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1229JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1230 failed delivery.
1231
b1f8e4f8
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1232JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1233
511a6c14 1234JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1235
1236JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1237 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1238
51c7471d
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1239JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1240 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1241
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1242TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1243
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1244JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1245
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1246JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1247 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1248
1249 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1250 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1251 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1252
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1253TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1254 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1255 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1256 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1257
35aba663
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1258JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1259
8c51eead 1260JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1261 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1262 lookup).
8c51eead 1263
deae092e
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1264TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1265 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1266 Schlichting.
35aba663 1267
fd3b6a4a 1268JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1269 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1270
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1271TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1272 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1273
2b4a568d
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1274JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1275
d2af03f4
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1276TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1277 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1278 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1279
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1280JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1281 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1282
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1283JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1284 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1285 hosts_request_ocsp.
1286
ed3bba5f 1287JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1288 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1289 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1290
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1291JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1292
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1293TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1294 Christian Aistleitner.
1295
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1296JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1297
6eb02f88
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1298TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1299 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1300
00bff6f6
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1301JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1302 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1303
071c51f7
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1304JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1305 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1306
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1307TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1308 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1309
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1310TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1311 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1312
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1313TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1314 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1315 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1316
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1317JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1318
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1319PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1320 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1321 Jasper Wallace.
1322
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1323JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1324
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1325TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1326 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1327 CVE-2014-2972
1328
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1333PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1334
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1335PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1336 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1337
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1338PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1339 by GnuTLS.
1340
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1341PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1342 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1343 routines.
1344
13363eba 1345PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1346
66645890 1347PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1348 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1349 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1350 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1351 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 1353PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1354 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1355 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1356 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1357 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1358 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1359
d27f98fe 1360TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1361
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1362TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1363
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1364TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1365 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1366
ae0e32ee 1367TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1368 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1369 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1371TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1372
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1373TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1374
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1375TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1376 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1377
976b7e9f
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1378JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1379
be4a1376
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1380JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1381
ec4b68e5
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1382PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1383
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1384NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1385 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1386
585121e2 1387JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1388
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1389PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1390 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1391 function.
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1393PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1394 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1395
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1396JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1397 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1398 "acl = name arg..."
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1400JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1401
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1402JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1403
ea722490 1404JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1405 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1406
b1b05573
JH
1407JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1408 Bugzilla 884.
1409
362145b5
JH
1410JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1411 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1412
3c0a92dc
JH
1413JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1414 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1415
6d7c6175
PP
1416PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1417 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1418 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1419
6f123593
JH
1420JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1421 authenticators.
1422
c8e2fc1e
JH
1423JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1424 for control.
1425
005ac57f
PP
1426PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1427
3f1df0e3
PP
1428PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1429 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1430 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1431 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1432
67bd1ab3
TF
1433TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1434
1435 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1436 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1437 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1438 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1439 the retry rules.
1440
1441 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1442 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1443 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1444
1445 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1446 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1447 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1448 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1449
1ddeb334
TF
1450 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1451 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1452 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1453 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1454 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1455 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1456 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1457
1458 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1459 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1460
326cdc37
TF
1461TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1462
1463 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1464
1465 Resent-From: f
1466
1467 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1468 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1469 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1470 username as equal to the username.
1471
1472 This change corrects that bug.
1473
f62514b3
GF
1474GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1475 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1476 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1477
eb505532
TF
1478TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1479
14c7b357
PP
1480PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1481 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1482 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1483 NULL dereference and crash.
1484
94eaf700
PP
1485JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1486
6f5a440a
PP
1487PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1488 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1489 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1490
514ee161
SC
1491SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1492
fd98a5c6
JH
1493JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1494 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1495 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1496 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1497 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1498 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1499 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1500 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1501 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1502 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1503 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1504
035c7f1e
PP
1505PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1506 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1507
ff284120
PP
1508PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1509 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1510 Bugzilla 880.
1511
26e72755
PP
1512PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1513 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1514 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1515 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1516 an empty string is now equivalent.
1517
0fbd9bff
PP
1518PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1519 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1520 not performing validation itself.
1521
700d22f3
PP
1522PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1523 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1524
fcc8e047
JH
1525JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1526 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1527
4c04137d 1528TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1529
8c020188
PP
1530PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1531 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1532 other false fix of the same issue.
1533 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1534 Bugzilla 1363.
1535
d13cdd30
PP
1536PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1537 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1538
e2fbf4a2
PP
1539PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1540 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1541 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1542
f4c1088b
PP
1543PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1544 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1545 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1546
c5c2182f
PP
1547TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1548
73431ca9
JH
1549JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1550
2d07a215
TL
1551TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1552 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1553
a30a8861
TL
1554TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1555 Alexander Miroch.
1556
33382dd9
TL
1557TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1558 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1559 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1560 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1561 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1562
046172e6
TL
1563TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1564 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1565
581d7bee 1566TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1567 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1568 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1569
1570TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1571 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1572 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1573 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1574
237b2cf2
TL
1575TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1576
9fc5a352
TL
1577TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1578 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1579 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1580
b10e4ec2
TL
1581TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1582
e2cebd74
TL
1583TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1584 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1585 interaction.
1586
1587TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1588 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1589
2519e60d
TL
1590TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1591 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1592
e78e6ecf 1593
4263f395
PP
1594Exim version 4.80.1
1595-------------------
1596
1597PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1598 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1599 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1600
ea722490 1601
b1770b6e 1602Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1603-----------------
1604
1605PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1606 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1607 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1608
23c7e742
NM
1609NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1610
b322aac8
NM
1611NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1612 improved.
1613
4a891427
NM
1614NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1615
c1e794ba 1616PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1617
97753960
PP
1618PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1619
1620PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1621 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1622
df6303fa
PP
1623PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1624 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1625
7e6a8985
PP
1626PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1627 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1628
f1e05cc7 1629PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1630 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1631 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1632
4c287009
PP
1633PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1634
b98bb9ac
PP
1635PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1636 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1637
4a6a987a
PP
1638PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1639
c45dd180 1640PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1641
7db8d074
PP
1642PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1643 non-compliant senders.
1644 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1645
eae0036b 1646NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1647 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1648 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1649
dec5017e
PP
1650PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1651 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1652 in spool file corruption.
1653
c80c5570
PP
1654PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1655 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1656 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1657 "Got SSL error 2".
1658
076b11e2
PP
1659TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1660 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1661 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1662
5407bfff
JH
1663JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1664 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1665
9e45c72b
PP
1666JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1667
e74376d8
PP
1668PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1669 diagnostics.
1670 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1671
4c04137d 1672PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1673 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1674 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1675
7be682ca
PP
1676PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1677 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1678 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1679 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1680
ef840681
PP
1681PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1682 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1683
5bfb4cdf
PP
1684PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1685 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1686 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1687 resolver implementation change.
1688
c6e95d22
PP
1689PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1690 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1691
9cbad13b
PP
1692PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1693
9ee44efb
PP
1694PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1695
6a6084f8
PP
1696PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1697 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1698
12dd53c7
PP
1699PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1700 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1701
9e45c72b 1702JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1703 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1704
17c76198
PP
1705PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1706 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1707 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1708 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1709 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1710
53947857 1711PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1712
eae0036b 1713PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1714 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1715 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1716
9e45c72b 1717JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1718
7390e768
PP
1719PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1720 read-only, out of scope).
1721 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1722
08488c86
PP
1723PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1724 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1725 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1726 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1727
6475bd82
PP
1728PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1729
81f91683
PP
1730PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1731 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1732 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1733 real issues in debug logging.
1734
5779e6aa
PP
1735PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1736 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1737
3375e053
PP
1738PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1739 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1740 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1741
1742PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1743 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1744 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1745 problems.
3375e053 1746
9d26b8c0
PP
1747PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1748 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1749
57eb9e91 1750PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1751 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1752 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1753 needs to override this, it can.
1754
16880d1a
PP
1755PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1756 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1757 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1758
a799883d
PP
1759PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1760 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1761 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1762 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1763
3ecab157 1764PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1765
0599f9cf 1766
867fcbf5
PP
1767Exim version 4.77
1768-----------------
1769
1770PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1771 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1772
f1a29782
TF
1773TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1774
ab42bd23
TK
1775TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1776 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1777
0ca0cf52
TF
1778TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1779 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1780
921b12ca
TF
1781TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1782 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1783 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1784
1785 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1786 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1787 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1788 not safe for signals.
1789
1790 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1791 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1792 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1793 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1794 exiwhat.
1795
c99ce5c9
TF
1796TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1797
1798 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1799 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1800 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1801 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1802 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1803
1804 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1805 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1806 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1807 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1808 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1809 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1810
1811 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1812 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1813 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1814 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1815
1816 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1817 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1818 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1819 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1820
1821 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1822 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1823 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1824 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1825 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1826 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1827 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1828 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1829 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1830
1831 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1832 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1833 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1834 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1835
1836 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1837 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1838 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1839 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1840 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1841 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1842 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1843 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1844 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1845 details in the main documentation.
1846
3634fc25
TF
1847TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1848
792e8a19
TF
1849TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1850
5901f0ab
TF
1851TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1852 repository when doing development or release builds.
1853
7f2a2a43
PP
1854PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1855 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1856
061b7ebd
PP
1857PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1858 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1859 Bugzilla 97.
1860
e12f8c32
PP
1861PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1862
9e949f00 1863PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1864 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1865
1866PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1867 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1868
555ae6af 1869PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1870 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1871
1872PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1873 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1874
6f7fe114
PP
1875PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1876 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1877
c566dd90
PP
1878PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1879 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1880 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1881 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1882
d6cc7c78 1883PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1884 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1885 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1886
0d0e4455
PP
1887PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1888
3399bb60 1889PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1890
1891PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1892 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1893
0ca0cf52 1894
10906672
PP
1895Exim version 4.76
1896-----------------
1897
1898PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1899
754a0503
PP
1900PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1901 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1902
c0c7b2da
PP
1903PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1904
e97d1f08
PP
1905PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1906
084c1d8c
PP
1907PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1908 Bugzilla 1098.
1909
4e7ee012
PP
1910PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1911 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1912
c8d52a00
PP
1913TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1914 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1915
54e7ce4a
PP
1916PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1917 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1918
5ee6f336
PP
1919PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1920 Bugzilla 1104.
1921
c8d52a00 1922TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1923 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1924
1925TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1926 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1927 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1928 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1929
1930PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1931 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1932
10906672 1933
aa097c4c
NM
1934Exim version 4.75
1935-----------------
1936
4c04137d 1937NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1938 Bugzilla 1073
1939
7f3d9eff
TF
1940TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1941 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1942 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1943
159f52d2
TF
1944TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1945 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1946
0cc9542a
PP
1947PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1948 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1949 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1950
f7274286
PP
1951PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1952 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1953
7b797365
PP
1954PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1955 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1956
caacae52
NM
1957NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1958 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1959
09dcaba9
NM
1960NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1961 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1962
bc19a55b
PP
1963PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1964 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1965
bd4c9759
NM
1966NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1967 Fixes bug 943.
1968
b72aab72
PP
1969PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1970 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1971
2fe76745
PP
1972PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1973 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1974
76aa570c
PP
1975PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1976 SQL string expansion failure details.
1977 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1978
f1e5fef5
PP
1979PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1980 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1981
4d805ee9
PP
1982PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1983 extern declarations in function scope.
1984 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1985
cd59ab18
PP
1986PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1987 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1988 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1989 a kernel bug).
1990
332f5cf3
PP
1991PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1992 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1993
29cfeb94
PP
1994PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1995 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1996
660242ad
PP
1997PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1998 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1999
bc4bc4c5
PP
2000PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2001 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2002
2e64baa9
NM
2003NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2004 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2005 Dennis Davis.
2006
4c04137d 2007PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2008
6bac1a9a
PP
2009PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2010
552193f0
NM
2011NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2012 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2013
1b587e48
TF
2014TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2015 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2016
aa097c4c 2017
8c07b69f
TF
2018Exim version 4.74
2019-----------------
2020
2021TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2022 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2023
c0ea85ab
TF
2024TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2025 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2026
0761d44e
TF
2027TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2028
0a349494
PP
2029DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2030 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2031 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2032
2033PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2034 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2035 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2036
fea24b2e
PP
2037PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2038 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2039 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2040 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2041
6545de78
PP
2042PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2043 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2044 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2045 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2046
1670ef10
PP
2047PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2048 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2049 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2050 arbitrary files.
2051
c0886197
PP
2052PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2053 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2054
b7487bce
PP
2055PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2056 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2057 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2058 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2059 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2060
8c07b69f 2061
97fd1e48 2062Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2063-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2064
2065PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2066 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2067 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2068
6901c596
PP
2069PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2070 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2071
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2072JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2073
77bb000f
PP
2074PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2075
a29e5231
PP
2076PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2077
ec5a0394 2078PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2079
55c75993
PP
2080PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2081
453a6645 2082PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2083 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2084 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2085 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2086
8544e77a
PP
2087PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2088 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2089 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2090 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2091 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2092
83e029d5
PP
2093PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2094
ed7f7860
PP
2095PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2096
7d9f747b
PP
2097PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2098
4b2241d2
PP
2099PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2100
10385c15
PP
2101PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2102
dbc4b90d
PP
2103PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2104
532be449
PP
2105PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2106
6a8de854 2107PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2108 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2109 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2110
5dc43717
JJ
2111JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2112
2113JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2114 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2115
3346ab01
PP
2116PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2117 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2118
491fab4c
PP
2119PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2120 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2121 Notification from John Horne.
2122
13eb9497
PP
2123PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2124 compatible.
2125
2126PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2127 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2128 it normally works.
2129
7f36d675
DW
2130DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2131 access.
2132
c1d94452
DW
2133DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2134 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2135 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2136
e2f5dc15
DW
2137DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2138 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2139 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2140 configuration file.
2141
cd25e41d
DW
2142DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2143 option (effectively making it always true).
2144
261dc43e
DW
2145DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2146 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2147
fa32850b
DW
2148DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2149 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2150
79d4bc3d
PP
2151PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2152 run-time user, instead of root.
2153
43236f35 2154PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2155 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2156
fb08281f
DW
2157DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2158 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2159 arguments.
3346ab01 2160
74935b98
DW
2161DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2162 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2163 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2164
90b6341f
DW
2165DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2166
57730b52
ML
2167NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2168
66581d1e 2169
465e92cf
JJ
2170Exim version 4.72
2171-----------------
2172
453a6645
PP
2173JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2174 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2175 typos
465e92cf 2176
453a6645
PP
2177JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2178 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2179 (Finput)
edae0343 2180
9bd3e22c
NM
2181NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2182 Patch from Alain Williams
2183
bb576ff7
NM
2184NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2185
5a1a5845
NM
2186NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2187 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2188
981a9fad
NM
2189NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2190 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2191
7fc497ee
NM
2192NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2193
1a41defa
JJ
2194JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2195
a466095c 2196NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2197 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2198
94a6bd0b
NM
2199TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2200
2201TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2202
2203MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2204 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2205 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2206
c1b141a8
NM
2207NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2208 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2209
b26eacf1 2210NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2211 Patch by Simon Arlott
2212
179c5980 2213PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2214 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2215
9bd3e22c 2216
7c6d71af
NM
2217Exim version 4.71
2218-----------------
2219
7d9f747b 2220TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2221
f013fb92
NM
2222NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2223
0eb8eedd
NM
2224NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2225
663ee6d9
NM
2226NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2227
177ebd9b
NM
2228NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2229
7c6d71af 2230
210f147e
NM
2231Exim version 4.70
2232-----------------
2233
cdd3bb85 2234TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2235 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2236
2237TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2238 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2239 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2240
2241TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2242 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2243 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2244
2245TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2246 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2247
210f147e
NM
2248NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2249 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2250 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2251 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2252
deafd5b3
NM
2253NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2254 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2255 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2256
089793a4
TF
2257TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2258
5f16ca82
TF
2259TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2260
dae9d94e 2261NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2262 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2263
7d9f747b 2264NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2265
06864c44
TF
2266TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2267 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2268 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2269 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2270
65a7d8c3 2271NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2272 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2273
23510047 2274TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2275
7d9f747b 2276NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2277
7d8eec3a 2278NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2279 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2280
89dec7b6
TF
2281TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2282 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2283
a99de90c
TF
2284TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2285 that they are available at delivery time.
2286
e2803e40
TF
2287TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2288
7199e1ee
TF
2289TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2290 incoming_port log selectors.
2291
e276e04b
TF
2292TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2293 setting expands to an empty string.
2294
ce552449 2295NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2296 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2297
e765a0f1 2298NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2299 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2300
4f054c63 2301NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2302 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2303
7d9f747b
PP
2304NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2305 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2306
7d9f747b
PP
2307NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2308 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2309
b52bc06e 2310NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2311 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2312
447de4b0
NM
2313NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2314
4c69d561 2315NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2316 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2317
d5c39246 2318NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2319 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2320
0b23848a
TK
2321TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2322
8f3414a1 2323NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2324 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2325
fb6f955d
NM
2326NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2327
2328NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2329
7d9f747b
PP
2330NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2331 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2332
7d9f747b
PP
2333NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2334 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2335
7d9f747b
PP
2336NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2337 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2338
7d9f747b
PP
2339NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2340 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2341
7d9f747b
PP
2342NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2343 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2344
7d9f747b
PP
2345NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2346 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2347
7d9f747b
PP
2348NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2349 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2350
7d9f747b 2351NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2352 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2353
7d9f747b 2354NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2355
7d9f747b
PP
2356NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2357 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2358
7d9f747b 2359NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2360
7d9f747b 2361NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2362
7d9f747b 2363NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2364
7d9f747b 2365NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2366
17792b53 2367NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2368 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2369
7d9f747b
PP
2370NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2371 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2372
91576cec 2373NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2374 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2375
7d9f747b
PP
2376NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2377 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2378
7d9f747b 2379NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2380
7d9f747b 2381NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2382
7d9f747b 2383NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2384
7d9f747b 2385NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2386
deafd5b3 2387
47db1125
NM
2388Exim version 4.69
2389-----------------
2390
4b3504d0
TK
2391TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2392 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2393 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2394
2395 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2396 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2397 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2398 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2399 build errors in sieve.c.
2400
81ea09ca
NM
2401NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2402 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2403 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2404
f13cddcb
SC
2405SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2406
7d9f747b 2407NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2408
7d9f747b 2409NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2410
7d9f747b 2411NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2412
2413
eb4c0de6
PH
2414Exim version 4.68
2415-----------------
2416
2417PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2418
6a3bceb1
PH
2419PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2420 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2421 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2422 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2423 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2424 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2425 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2426 for iplsearch lookups.
2427
2428 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2429 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2430 previously such lookups could never work.
2431
4c04137d 2432 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2433 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2434 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2435
2e30fa9d
TK
2436TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2437 version.
2438
0806a9c5
MH
2439MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2440 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2441 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2442 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2443 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2444 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2445
ae276964
TK
2446TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2447 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2448
0f2cbd1b
MH
2449MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2450 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2451 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2452 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2453 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2454 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2455
2b85bce7
PH
2456PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2457 local_scan API.
2458
93655c46
PH
2459PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2460
6c512171
PH
2461PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2462 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2463 encrypted.
2464
2465PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2466 by clients under certain conditions.
2467
aa6dc513
PH
2468PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2469 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2470
a96603a0
PH
2471PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2472
8f240103
PH
2473PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2474 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2475
2476PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2477
d677b2f2
PH
2478PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2479
d52120f2
PH
2480PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2481
64f2600a
PH
2482PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2483 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2484
8669f003
PH
2485PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2486
a4dc33a8
PH
2487PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2488 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2489
d6a60c0f
PH
2490PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2491
8f128379
PH
2492PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2493
8932dffe
PH
2494PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2495 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2496 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2497 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2498
ddea74fa 2499PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2500 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2501 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2502
ddea74fa 2503PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2504 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2505
ddea74fa
PH
2506PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2507
ce9f225c
PH
2508PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2509
19897d52
PH
2510PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2511
bc64a74d
PH
2512PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2513 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2514 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2515
eb4c0de6 2516
b4ed4da0
PH
2517Exim version 4.67
2518-----------------
2519
22ad45c9
MH
2520MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2521 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2522 Jan Srzednicki.
2523
b4ed4da0
PH
2524PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2525 issue a MAIL command.
2526
431b7361
PH
2527PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2528
2529 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2530
2531 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2532 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2533 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2534 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2535 item. This has been fixed.
2536
2537PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2538 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2539
83da1223
PH
2540PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2541 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2542
54fc8428
PH
2543PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2544 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2545 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2546
34c5e8dd
SC
2547SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2548
bbe15da8
PH
2549PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2550 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2551 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2552 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2553 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2554
0e8a9471
MH
2555MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2556 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2557 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2558
f0872424
PH
2559PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2560 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2561 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2562 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2563
b01dd148
PH
2564PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2565
6bf342e1
PH
2566PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2567
273f34d0
PH
2568PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2569 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2570 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2571 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2572 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2573
cf8b11a5
PH
2574PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2575
41c7c167
PH
2576PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2577 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2578 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2579 values).
2580
9c57cbc0
PH
2581PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2582
f3f065bb
PH
2583PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2584
047bdd8c
PH
2585PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2586
0ce9abe6
PH
2587PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2588
0e22dfd1
PH
2589PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2590
4c590bd1
PH
2591PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2592 no_callout_flush is set.
2593
09945f1e
PH
2594PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2595 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2596 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2597 fixed.
2598
c51b8e75
PH
2599PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2600
e28326d8 2601PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2602 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2603 other ACL rejections are.
2604
75b1493f
PH
2605PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2606 with slight modification.
2607
7c5214ec
PH
2608PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2609 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2610
4311097e
PH
2611PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2612 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2613 connection.
2614
29f89cad
PH
2615PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2616 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2617
5e687460
SC
2618SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2619
c3611384
PH
2620PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2621 expansion side effects.
2622
5a11a7b4
PH
2623PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2624 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2625 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2626 be the same.
2627
0e20aff9
MH
2628MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2629 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2630 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2631
ca86f471
PH
2632PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2633 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2634 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2635 were accidentally chopped off.
2636
a14e5636
PH
2637PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2638 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2639 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2640 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2641 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2642 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2643 pipelining has not been advertised.
2644
ec95d1a6
PH
2645PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2646
42855d71
PH
2647PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2648 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2649 This has been fixed.
2650
57c2c631
PH
2651PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2652 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2653 reported on Solaris.
2654
58c01c94
PH
2655PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2656 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2657 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2658 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2659 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2660 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2661 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2662
dee5a20a
PH
2663PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2664 cpus.
2665
d2ee6114
PH
2666PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2667
b2d5182b
PH
2668PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2669
79749a79
PH
2670PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2671 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2672 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2673 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2674 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2675 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2676
c456d9bb
PH
2677PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2678 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2679 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2680 host_all_ignored option.
2681
cd9868ec
PH
2682PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2683 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2684 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2685 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2686 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2687 is what is supposed to happen).
2688
ebeaf996
PH
2689PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2690 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2691 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2692 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2693 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2694 uses the Exim user.
2695
2679d413
PH
2696PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2697 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2698 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2699 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2700 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2701 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2702 users.
2703
84024b72
PH
2704PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2705
8005d38e
SC
2706SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2707 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2708 (Jez Hancock).
2709 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2710 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2711
3298c6c6
SC
2712SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2713
a43a27c5
PH
2714PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2715
58eb016e 2716PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2717 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2718 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2719 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2720 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2721 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2722 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2723 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2724 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2725 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2726 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2727
b43a74ea
PH
2728PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2729 advertised in response to EHLO.
2730
b4ed4da0 2731
5dd1517f
PH
2732Exim version 4.66
2733-----------------
2734
2735PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2736 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2737
2738 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2739 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2740
2741 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2742 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2743 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2744
2745 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2746 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2747 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2748 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2749 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2750
2751
93cfa765
TK
2752Exim version 4.65
2753-----------------
2754
2755TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2756 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2757 versions. (#438)
2758
d6066548
MH
2759MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2760 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2761 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2762
4362ff0d
PH
2763PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2764 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2765 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2766 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2767 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2768 rather than extend the field.
2769
93cfa765 2770
944e9e9c
TF
2771Exim version 4.64
2772-----------------
aa41d2de 2773
21d74bd9
TK
2774TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2775 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2776 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2777 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2778 these files.
2779
2780TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2781 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2782 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2783
2784TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2785 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2786 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2787
2788TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2789 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2790 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2791 in the field name.
2792
2b1c6e3a
PH
2793PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2794 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2795 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2796 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2797 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2798 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2799 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2800 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2801 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2802 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2803 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2804
1f872c80
PH
2805PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2806 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2807
2808PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2809 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2810 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2811 ignores EPIPE as well.
2812
d203e649
PH
2813PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2814 (quoted-printable decoding).
2815
cc2ed8f7 2816PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2817 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2818
ddfcd446
PH
2819PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2820
d45b1de8
PH
2821PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2822
2823PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2824
38a0a95f 2825PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2826 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2827
a2405d83
JJ
2828JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2829 in 4.64-PH/09.
2830
2831JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2832 miscellaneous code fixes
2833
6ea85e9a
PH
2834PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2835 rejections.
2836
26da7e20
PH
2837PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2838 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2839 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2840 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2841 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2842 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2843 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2844 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2845
14aa5a05 2846PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2847 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2848 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2849 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2850 function.
2851 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2852 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2853 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2854 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2855 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2856 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2857 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2858 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2859 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2860
ff75a1f7
PH
2861PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2862 decoding.
2863
e6f6568e
PH
2864PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2865 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2866 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2867 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2868 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2869 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2870 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2871 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2872
d6f6e0dc
PH
2873PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2874 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2875 list.
2876
322050c2
PH
2877PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2878 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2879 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2880 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2881 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2882 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2883 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2884 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2885 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2886 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2887 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2888 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2889 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2890
08955dd3
PH
2891PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2892 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2893 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2894 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2895 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2896 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2897 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2898
1eccaa59
PH
2899PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2900 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2901 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2902 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2903 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2904 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2905 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2906 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2907 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2908 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2909
602e59e5
PH
2910PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2911 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2912 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2913 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2914 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2915
411ef850
PH
2916PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2917 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2918 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2919 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2920 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2921 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2922 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2923
7befa435
PH
2924PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2925 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2926 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2927 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2928 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2929 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2930 been verified.
2931
48da4259 2932PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2933 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2934 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2935 and authorization.)
2936
48da4259
PH
2937PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2938 if any retry times were supplied.
2939
d1d5595c
PH
2940PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2941 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2942 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2943
0ef732d9
PH
2944PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2945
328895cc
PH
2946PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2947
fd700877
PH
2948PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2949 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2950 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2951 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2952 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2953 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2954
8dce1a6f
PH
2955PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2956 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2957
17af4a17
PH
2958PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2959 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2960 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2961
2962PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2963 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2964 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2965 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2966 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2967 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2968 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2969 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2970 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2971
2972 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2973 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2974 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2975 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2976 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2977 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2978 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2979 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2980 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2981
2982 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2983 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2984 hammering the server.
2985
c1114884
PH
2986PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2987 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2988
7a0743eb
PH
2989PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2990
0d85fa3f
PH
2991PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2992 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2993 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2994
1bf43b78
PH
2995PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2996 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2997 one case where this was not true.
2998
520de300
PH
2999PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3000 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3001 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3002 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3003 fails.
3004
48c7f9e2
PH
3005PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3006 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3007 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3008 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3009 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3010 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3011 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3012 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3013 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3014 smtp transport.
3015
99ea1c86
PH
3016PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3017 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3018 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3019 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3020
a2042e78
PH
3021PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3022 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3023
4fbcfc2e
PH
3024PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3025 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3026 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3027
aa41d2de
PH
3028PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3029
af561417
PH
3030PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3031
3cc66b45
PH
3032PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3033
194cc0e4
PH
3034PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3035 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3036 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3037 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3038
a401ddaa
PH
3039PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3040 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3041
4e88a19f
PH
3042PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3043 be meaningful with "accept".
3044
d7d7b289
SC
3045SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3046 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3047
3048SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3049 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3050 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3051
3052SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3053 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3054 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3055 there is data to show.
3056 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3057
3058SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3059 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3060 as well as the number of messages.
3061
3062SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3063 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3064 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3065
3066SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3067 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3068 have a flag are now skipped.
3069
3070SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3071 Added the -emptyok flag.
3072
3073SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3074 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3075
0ea2a468
JJ
3076JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3077 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3078 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3079
3080JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3081 match 4.64-PH/13
3082
3083JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3084 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3085
3086JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3087
3088JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3089 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3090
8a10f5a4
PH
3091PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3092
30e18802
PH
3093PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3094 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3095 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3096 contravention of the specifications.
3097
55728a4f
PH
3098PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3099 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3100 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3101
d7837193
PH
3102PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3103 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3104 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3105
87054a31
PH
3106PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3107
ea2c01d2
MH
3108MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3109 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3110 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3111 some point in the past.
3112
e4fa6968
PH
3113PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3114 transport during callout processing was broken.
3115
56f5d9bd
PH
3116PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3117 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3118
922e1c28
PH
3119PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3120 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3121
21eb6e72
PH
3122PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3123 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3124
a0540757
PH
3125PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3126
944e9e9c 3127
478be7b0
SC
3128Exim version 4.63
3129-----------------
3130
3131SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3132 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3133
3134SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3135 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3136 there is data to show.
3137 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3138
3139SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3140 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3141
2b965a65
TF
3142TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3143 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3144
45b91596
PH
3145TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3146 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3147
c59f5781
TF
3148TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3149 submissions from trusted users.
3150
90fc3069
TF
3151TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3152 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3153
6083aca0
TF
3154TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3155 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3156 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3157 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3158 there is now a framework to start from.
3159
765b530f
PH
3160PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3161 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3162 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3163
4e167a8c
PH
3164PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3165
4608d683
PH
3166PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3167
b8dc3e4a
PH
3168PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3169
5418e93b
PH
3170PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3171 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3172 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3173
b4a9bda2
PH
3174PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3175 libradius.
3176
45b91596
PH
3177PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3178 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3179 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3180
5547e2c5
PH
3181PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3182 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3183 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3184 its arguments.
3185
dbcef0ea
PH
3186PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3187 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3188 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3189 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3190 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3191
25257489
PH
3192PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3193 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3194
c816d124
PH
3195PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3196
a9ccd69a
PH
3197PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3198 operations in malware.c.
3199
75fa1910
PH
3200PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3201 signatures.
3202
a7d7aa58
PH
3203PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3204 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3205 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3206 all.
3207
42119b09
PH
3208PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3209 statements to "add_header".
3210
41609df5
PH
3211PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3212 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3213
a5bd321b
PH
3214PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3215 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3216 latter.
3217
e85a7ad5 3218PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3219 so that it is now:
3220
e85a7ad5
PH
3221 ${if or { \
3222 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3223 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3224 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3225 }{no}{yes}}
3226
e85a7ad5
PH
3227 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3228 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3229
d8fe1c03
PH
3230PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3231 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3232
16282d2b
PH
3233PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3234 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3235 any possible encoding problems.
3236
35d40a98
PH
3237PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3238 but not after initializing Perl.
3239
034d99ab
PH
3240PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3241 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3242 apparently, which is not desirable.
3243
6ec97b1b
PH
3244PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3245 queries.
3246
e22ca4ac
JJ
3247JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3248 --not options
3249
3250JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3251
33d73e3b
PH
3252PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3253 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3254 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3255 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3256
9ecb03f3
PH
3257PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3258 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3259 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3260
084efe8d
PH
3261PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3262 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3263 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3264 0.12.
3265
366fc9f0
PH
3266PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3267 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3268 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3269 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3270 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3271
c59f5781 3272
c887c79e
TF
3273Exim version 4.62
3274-----------------
3275
3276TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3277 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3278
1cce3af8
PH
3279PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3280 patch).
3281
afb3eaaf
PH
3282PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3283 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3284 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3285 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3286 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3287 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3288 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3289 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3290 451 error is used.
3291
e173618b
PH
3292PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3293
dd16e114
PH
3294PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3295 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3296 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3297
f7fd3850
PH
3298PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3299 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3300 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3301 odd errors.
3302
d87df92c
PH
3303PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3304 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3305
7e9f683d
PH
3306PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3307 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3308 option (which defaults to 0600).
3309
bfad5236
PH
3310PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3311
01c490df
PH
3312PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3313 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3314 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3315 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3316 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3317 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3318 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3319
d6629cdc
PH
3320PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3321
1cce3af8 3322
214e2000
PH
3323Exim version 4.61
3324-----------------
3325
3326PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3327 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3328 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3329 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3330 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3331 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3332 addresses as local.
3333
f9daeae0
PH
3334PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3335 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3336
7e66e54d
PH
3337PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3338
c8ea1597
PH
3339PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3340 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3341 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3342 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3343 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3344 grumble.
3345
911f6fde
PH
3346PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3347 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3348
47ca6d6c
PH
3349PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3350 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3351 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3352 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3353 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3354
ed0e9820
PH
3355PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3356 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3357 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3358 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3359
eff37e47
PH
3360PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3361 be the same on different OS.
3362
1921d2ea
PH
3363PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3364 testing.
3365
b3f69ca8
JJ
3366JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3367 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3368
3369JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3370 in 4.61-PH/06
3371
424a1c63
PH
3372PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3373 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3374 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3375 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3376 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3377 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3378 bounce message.
3379
7a100415
PH
3380PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3381 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3382 when Exim was called.
3383
19b9dc85
PH
3384PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3385 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3386
309bd837
PH
3387PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3388 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3389 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3390 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3391
59e82a2a
PH
3392PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3393 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3394 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3395 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3396 changes:
3397
3398 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3399 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3400 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3401
3402 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3403 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3404 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3405
9edc04ce
PH
3406PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3407 feature).
3408
1349e1e5
PH
3409PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3410 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3411 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3412 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3413 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3414 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3415 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3416 values from the SRV records were lost.
3417
ea49d0e1
PH
3418PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3419 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3420 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3421
064a94c9
PH
3422PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3423 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3424 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3425
727071f8
PH
3426PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3427 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3428 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3429 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3430 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3431 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3432 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3433 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3434 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3435 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3436
f78eb7c6
PH
3437PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3438 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3439 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3440
21c28500
PH
3441PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3442 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3443
3444PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3445 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3446 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3447 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3448 is given.
3449
1688f43b
PH
3450PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3451 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3452 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3453
3454PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3455 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3456 PH/23 above applies.
3457
9675b384
PH
3458PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3459 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3460 (for which there is an explicit test).
3461
6a3f1455
PH
3462PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3463
dac79d3e
PH
3464PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3465 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3466 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3467 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3468 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3469
5977a0b3
PH
3470PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3471 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3472 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3473 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3474
c91535f3
PH
3475PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3476 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3477 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3478
0d46a8c8
PH
3479PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3480
278c6e6c
PH
3481PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3482
2cbb4081
PH
3483PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3484 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3485 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3486
3eef829e
PH
3487PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3488 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3489 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3490 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3491 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3492
1ab95fa6
PH
3493PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3494 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3495 the message gets confusing).
3496
230205fc
PH
3497PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3498 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3499 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3500 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3501
75e0e026
PH
3502PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3503 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3504 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3505 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3506 same order.
3507
3508PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3509 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3510 the different processes.
3511
145396a6
PH
3512PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3513
3cd34f13
PH
3514PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3515
11121d3d
JJ
3516JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3517 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3518
3519JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3520 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3521
3522JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3523 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3524 messages matching specified criteria.
3525
8def5aaf
PH
3526PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3527
929ba01c
PH
3528PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3529 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3530
2632889e
PH
3531PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3532 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3533 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3534 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3535 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3536 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3537 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3538 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3539 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3540 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3541
944a9c55
PH
3542PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3543 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3544 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3545
4a23603b
PH
3546PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3547
4730f942
PH
3548PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3549 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3550 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3551 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3552 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3553 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3554 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3555 the variable.
3556
30dba1e6
PH
3557PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3558 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3559
382afc6b
PH
3560PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3561
a86229cf
PH
3562PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3563
50c99ba6
PH
3564PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3565
d35e429d
PH
3566PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3567 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3568 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3569 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3570 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3571 size of the count of files.
3572
f90d018c
PH
3573PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3574
75def545
PH
3575PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3576 used in LMTP mode:
3577
3578 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3579 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3580 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3581 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3582
3583 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3584 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3585 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3586
3587PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3588 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3589 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3590 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3591 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3592
c46782ef
PH
3593PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3594 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3595
71fafd95
PH
3596PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3597 will now be deprecated.
3598
2c5db4fd
PH
3599PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3600
9cf6b11a
JJ
3601JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3602 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3603 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3604
3605JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3606 with very large, slow to parse queues
3607
3608JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3609
3610JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3611
898d150f
PH
3612PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3613 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3614 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3615 SMTP output lines.
3616
46218253
PH
3617PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3618 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3619 Sieve code now uses this.
3620
e97957bc
PH
3621PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3622 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3623
81e509d7
PH
3624PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3625 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3626
3d240ff7
PH
3627PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3628
b37c4101
PH
3629PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3630 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3631 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3632 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3633 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3634
79378e0f
PH
3635PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3636 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3637 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3638 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3639
e49c7bb4
PH
3640PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3641
d114ec46
PH
3642PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3643
f3d7df6c
PH
3644PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3645 is preferred over IPv4.
3646
715ab376
PH
3647PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3648 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3649 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3650 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3651 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3652 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3653 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3654
6b31b150
PH
3655PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3656 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3657 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3658
3659PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3660
d515a917
PH
3661PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3662 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3663 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3664 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3665 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3666 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3667 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3668 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3669 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3670 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3671 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3672
9b8fadde
PH
3673PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3674 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3675 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3676
214e2000 3677
5de37277
PH
3678Exim version 4.60
3679-----------------
3680
cc38ddbf
PH
3681PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3682
3683 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3684 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3685
3686 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3687 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3688 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3689
72fdd6ae
PH
3690PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3691
3692 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3693 not a single digit.
3694
3695 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3696 string.
3697
3698 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3699 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3700 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3701 silly things.
3702
3703 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3704 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3705
3706 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3707 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3708
cb741023
PH
3709PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3710 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3711 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3712
f174f16e
PH
3713PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3714 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3715
c25242d7
PH
3716PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3717 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3718
3719 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3720
3721 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3722 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3723 this:
3724
3725 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3726
82c19f95
PH
3727PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3728 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3729 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3730 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3731 identical. For example:
3732
3733 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3734
3735 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3736 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3737 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3738
d7ffbc12
PH
3739PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3740 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3741 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3742 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3743
9f526266
PH
3744PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3745 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3746 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3747 message.
3748
87fcc8b9
PH
3749PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3750
3751 o fixes some comments
3752 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3753 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3754 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3755 and documents the missing references header update
3756
3757 and most important:
3758
3759 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3760 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3761 result)
3762
456682f5
PH
3763PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3764 Electronic Mail") by including:
3765
3766 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3767
3768 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3769 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3770 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3771 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3772 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3773
3774 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3775
3776 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3777
3778 The auto-replied keyword:
3779
3780 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3781 message by an automatic process,
3782
3783 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3784
3785 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3786 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3787
3788 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3789 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3790 other messages.
3791
3e46c1aa
PH
3792PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3793 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3794
49826d12
PH
3795PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3796
eba0c039
PH
3797PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3798 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3799 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3800
a0d6ba8a
PH
3801PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3802 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3803 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3804
f0917727
PH
3805PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3806 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3807 and treats the condition as false.
3808
096fee00
PH
3809PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3810
024bd3c2
PH
3811PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3812 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3813 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3814 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3815 not changing the active code.
3816
3817 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3818 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3819
3820 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3821 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3822
df199fec
PH
3823PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3824 (Bugzilla #53).
3825
d27f1df3
PH
3826PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3827 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3828 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3829 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3830 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3831 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3832 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3833 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3834 the text comparison.
3835
96776534
PH
3836PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3837 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3838 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3839 The same fix has been applied.
3840
5de37277 3841
9a799bc0
PH
3842Exim version 4.54
3843-----------------
3844
3845PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3846 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3847 It now does.
3848
99a4b039
PH
3849PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3850 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3851
3852PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3853
4b233853
PH
3854PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3855 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3856 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3857 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3858 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3859
8857ccfd
PH
3860TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3861 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3862 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3863 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3864 or /domain=).
3865
433a2980
PH
3866PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3867 testing suite.
3868
3e46c1aa 3869
9a799bc0 3870
e3a311ba
TK
3871Exim version 4.53
3872-----------------
3873
3874TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3875 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3876
13b685f9
PH
3877PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3878
395ff96d
PH
3879PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3880
5b68f6e4
PH
3881PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3882 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3883 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3884
1ab52c69
PH
3885PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3886 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3887 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3888
b07e6aa3
PH
3889PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3890 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3891 operating systems.
3892
254e032f
PH
3893PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3894 ${stat: expansion item.
3895
3af76a81
PH
3896PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3897 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3898
2548ba04
PH
3899PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3900 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3901 file for comments.
3902
b6c6011d
PH
3903PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3904
cf39cf57
PH
3905PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3906 setting.
3907
f1513293
PH
3908PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3909 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3910
727549a4
PH
3911TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3912
af46795e
PH
3913PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3914 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3915 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3916 the end of the subprocess.
3917
d7b47fd0
PH
3918PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3919 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3920 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3921 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3922 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3923
ee744174
JJ
3924JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3925
b582ab87
PH
3926TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3927
41a13e0a
PH
3928PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3929 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3930
f625cc5a
PH
3931PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3932
3933PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3934
21f7af35
PH
3935PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3936 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3937 HP-UX compiler.
3938
31480e42
PH
3939PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3940
2d280592
PH
3941PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3942 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3943 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3944
7cd1141b
PH
3945PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3946 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3947
3948PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3949 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3950
750af86e
PH
3951PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3952 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3953
3954 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3955 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3956
3957 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3958 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3959 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3960 contributed by a Radius user.
3961
3962PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3963 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3964
4304270b
TK
3965TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3966 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3967
750af86e
PH
3968PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3969 available.
3970
64ffc24f
PH
3971PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3972 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3973 received.
3974
5dd9625b
PH
3975PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3976 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3977 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3978 header lines when this was not necessary.
3979
5591031b
PH
3980PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3981
ba18e66a
PH
3982PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3983 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3984 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3985 exists".
3986
9cec981f
PH
3987PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3988 -bV or -d is used.
3989
aa2b5c79
PH
3990PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3991 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3992 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3993 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3994
48a53b7f
PH
3995PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3996
1c59d63b
PH
3997PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3998
671012da
TK
3999TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4000
1509d3a8
PH
4001PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4002
4003PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4004 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4005 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4006 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4007 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4008 settings.
4009
4010PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4011
2fe1a124
PH
4012PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4013 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4014 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4015 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4016 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4017 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4018 which is clearly wrong.
4019
8800895a
PH
4020PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4021
ccfdb010
PH
4022PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4023 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4024 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4025 subsequently added.
4026
1130bfb0
PH
4027PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4028 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4029
ebcb507f
PH
4030PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4031
c35e155c
PH
4032PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4033 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4034
95d1f782
PH
4035PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4036 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4037
fd6de02e
PH
4038PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4039 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4040
58de37c5
PH
4041PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4042 recipients, not senders.
4043
261cf466
TF
4044TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4045 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4046
3ee512ff
PH
4047PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4048
e08c430f
PH
4049PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4050
bef5a11f
PH
4051PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4052 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4053 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4054 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4055
7546de58
TF
4056TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4057
e5d5a95f
TF
4058TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4059 clock is set back in time.
4060
2e88a017
TF
4061TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4062 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4063
a5f65aa4
TF
4064TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4065 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4066
e7726cbf
PH
4067PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4068 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4069 (see PH/47 above).
4070
a7fdad5b
TF
4071TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4072 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4073 header rewrites.
4074
6af56900
PH
4075PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4076 type ("H").
4077
0925ede6
PH
4078PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4079
66afa403
TF
4080TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4081 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4082 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4083
0154e85a
TF
4084TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4085 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4086 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4087 helo verification defer as a failure.
4088
16f12c76
PH
4089PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4090 actual error message.
4091
bbe902f0 4092
e5a9dba6
PH
4093Exim version 4.52
4094-----------------
4095
4096TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4097
22c3b60b
PH
4098PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4099 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4100 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4101 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4102
06a9b4b5
PH
4103TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4104
c1ac6996
PH
4105PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4106 can still be requested.
4107
9c7a242c
PH
4108PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4109 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4110 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4111 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4112
87ba3f5f
PH
4113TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4114 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4115 circumstances, but probably never did.
4116
4117PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4118 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4119 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4120 in the header line.
4121
29aba418
TF
4122TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4123
fe0dab11
TF
4124TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4125 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4126
11d337a4
TK
4127TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4128
4129TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4130
415c8f3b
PH
4131PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4132 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4133 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4134 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4135 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4136 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4137
958541e9
PH
4138PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4139 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4140 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4141 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4142 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4143 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4144
c206415f
TK
4145TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4146 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4147
2a4be8f9
PH
4148PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4149 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4150
1cba11c5
SC
4151SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4152 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4153
4c04137d 4154SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4155
4156SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4157
4158SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4159
4160SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4161
4162SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4163
4164SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4165
1005d00e
TK
4166TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4167
4168TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4169 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4170 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4171
4172TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4173 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4174 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4175 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4176
9b4768fa
PH
4177PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4178 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4179 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4180
4181PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4182 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4183 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4184 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4185
0d7eb84a
PH
4186PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4187 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4188 to be made).
4189
4190PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4191 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4192 should work with maildirs and everything.
4193
40727bee
TK
4194TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4195 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4196
554d2369
TF
4197TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4198 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4199
1f922db1
PH
4200PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4201 function for BDB 4.3.
4202
ef213c3b
PH
4203PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4204
8ac170f3
PH
4205PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4206 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4207 involved.
4208
b1c749bb
PH
4209PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4210 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4211 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4212 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4213 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4214 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4215
4aac9b49
PH
4216PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4217 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4218 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4219 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4220 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4221 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4222 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4223 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4224
294520c8
TK
4225TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4226 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4227 details.
4228
5bd022fe
PH
4229PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4230 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4231
90e9ce59
PH
4232PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4233 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4234 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4235 test. It is now used for both.
4236
5ea81592
PH
4237PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4238 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4239 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4240 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4241 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4242 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4243
c6c2dc1d
PH
4244PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4245 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4246 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4247 string_vformat().
4248
fffffe4c
PH
4249PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4250 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4251 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4252
9a26b6b2
PH
4253PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4254 experimental DomainKeys support:
4255
4256 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4257 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4258 the control was given.
4259
4260 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4261
4aee0225
PH
4262PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4263
32d668a5
PH
4264PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4265
8187c3f3
PH
4266PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4267 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4268 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4269 db.h files).
4270
ff790e47 4271PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4272 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4273 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4274 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4275 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4276 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4277 course.
ff790e47 4278
5417f6d1
PH
4279PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4280 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4281 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4282 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4283 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4284 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4285
59cf8544
PH
4286PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4287 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4288 do -d+all out of habit.
4289
e7ad8a65
PH
4290PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4291 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4292 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4293
ade42478
PH
4294PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4295 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4296 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4297 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4298 record types that Exim uses.
4299
182ad5cf
PH
4300PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4301 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4302 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4303 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4304 non-existent file that was broken.
4305
b0d9fc80
TK
4306TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4307 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4308
4309TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4310 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4311 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4312
4313TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4314
47c7a64a
PH
4315PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4316 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4317 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4318 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4319 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4320 same time.
4321
a388bce4
SC
4322SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4323 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4324 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4325 at a slight CPU cost.
4326
4327SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4328 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4329
4330SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4331 by Marc Sherman.
4332
0793e4ed
SC
4333SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4334
c58b88df
PH
4335PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4336 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4337
e7ad8a65 4338
7982096b
PH
4339Exim version 4.51
4340-----------------
4341
1a46a8c5
PH
4342TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4343 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4344
2f079f46 4345TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4346
4347TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4348
4349PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4350 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4351
4352PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4353 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4354 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4355 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4356 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4357 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4358 file.
4359
4360PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4361 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4362 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4363 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4364 these two options.
4365
4366PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4367 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4368 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4369 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4370 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4371 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4372 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4373 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4374
4375PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4376 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4377
4378PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4379 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4380 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4381 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4382 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4383 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4384
4385PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4386 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4387 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4388 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4389
4390PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4391 Finch).
4392
4393PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4394 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4395
49c2d5ea
PH
4396PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4397 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4398 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4399 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4400 message.
49c2d5ea 4401
bf759a8b
PH
4402PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4403
83364d30
PH
4404PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4405 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4406
7999bbd7
PH
4407PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4408 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4409 to what was transported.)
4410
7dbf77c9
PH
4411TF/01 Added $received_time.
4412
74e0617f
PH
4413PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4414 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4415 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4416 spamd_address settings.
4417
2f079f46
PH
4418PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4419 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4420 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4421 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4422 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4423
8c841523
PH
4424PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4425
7766a4f0
PH
4426PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4427 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4428 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4429 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4430 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4431
8b417f2c
PH
4432PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4433 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4434
901f42cb
PH
4435PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4436 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4437 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4438 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4439 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4440 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4441 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4442 for failure.
4443
f9b9210e
PH
4444PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4445 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4446 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4447 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4448 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4449 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4450 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4451 "input=".
4452
54cdb463
PH
4453PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4454
cf00dad6
PH
4455PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4456 driver and ACL definitions.
4457
acb1b346
PH
4458PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4459 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4460
c5ddb310
PH
4461PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4462 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4463 understands it better than I do:
4464
4465 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4466 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4467
4468 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4469 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4470 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4471 => three warnings about OTP not working
4472 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4473
4474 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4475 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4476 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4477 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4478 for each call.)
4479 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4480 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4481
4482 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4483 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4484 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4485
31619da6
PH
4486PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4487 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4488 specified.
4489
bebaf0fc
PH
4490PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4491 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4492 "Linux".
4493
475fe28a
PH
4494PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4495 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4496 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4497
4498 warn !verify = sender
4499 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4500
4501 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4502 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4503
7e8bec7a
PH
4504PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4505
4506 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4507 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4508
4509 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4510 nomenclature these days.)
4511
e4a89c47
PH
4512PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4513 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4514
5ca2a9a1
PH
4515PH/30 In these circumstances:
4516 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4517 . First host does not offer TLS;
4518 . First host accepts first address;
4519 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4520 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4521 . Second host accepts second address.
4522 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4523 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4524 address.
7e8bec7a 4525
c688b954
PH
4526PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4527 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4528 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4529 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4530 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4531
fed77020
PH
4532PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4533 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4534
7fe1560f
PH
4535PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4536 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4537
ebb6e6d5
PH
4538PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4539 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4540 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4541
9c4e8f60
PH
4542PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4543 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4544 overlooked.
4545
4546PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4547
d7174846
PH
4548PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4549 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4550 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4551 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4552 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4553 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4554 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4555
4556 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4557 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4558 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4559 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4560 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4561
4562 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4563 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4564 routed further.
4565
cfe75fc3
PH
4566PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4567 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4568 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4569 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4570 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4571 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4572
be22d70e
PH
4573PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4574
0612b098
PH
4575PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4576 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4577 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4578 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4579 printable escape sequences.
4580
2e0c1448
PH
4581PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4582 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4583 body only.
4584
447d236c
PH
4585PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4586 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4587 are as follows:
4588
4589 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4590 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4591 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4592 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4593 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4594
4595 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4596 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4597 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4598
d20976dc
PH
4599PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4600
f656d135
PH
4601PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4602 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4603 play with."
4604
2e2a30b4
PH
4605PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4606 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4607 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4608 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4609 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4610 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4611 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4612 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4613 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4614 the log output.
4615
9176e9f0
PH
4616PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4617 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4618 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4619 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4620 "make".
4621
7982096b 4622
bbe902f0
PH
4623A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4624----------------------------------------
4625
4626Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4627changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4628needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4629in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4630that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4631release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4632from 4.43.
4633
4634I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46354.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4636those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4637historical information.
4638
4639
f7b63901 4640Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4641-----------------
4642
5fe762f6
PH
4643 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4644
139059f6 4645 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4646 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4647
7086e875
PH
4648 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4649 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4650 place.
4651
35af9f61
PH
4652 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4653 filter fails to execute.
4654
b668c215
PH
4655 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4656 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4657 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4658 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4659 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4660
a494b1e1
PH
4661 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4662
4663 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4664 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4665 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4666 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4667
c5fcb476
PH
4668 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4669 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4670 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4671 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4672 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4673
69358f02
PH
4674 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4675
5be20824
PH
467610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4677
eb2c0248
PH
467811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4679 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4680 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4681 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4682
2a3eea10
PH
468312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4684 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4685 sender verification.
4686
468713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4688 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4689
23c7ff99
PH
469014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4691
4deaf07d
PH
469215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4693 connection timeout.
4694
926e1192
PH
469516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4696 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4697
650edc6f
PH
469817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4699 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4700
2c7db3f5
PH
470118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4702 information about exactly what failed.
4703
3d235903
PH
470419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4705
7c7ad977
PH
470620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4707 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4708 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4709
981756db
PH
471021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4711 It is now set to "smtps".
4712
d4eb88df
PH
471322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4714 ignore_target_hosts.
4715
471623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4717 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4718 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4719 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4720 "[x.x.x.x]".
4721
7d468ab8
PH
472224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4723 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4724 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4725
472625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4727 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4728 wake it up if nothing else does.
4729
62c0818f
PH
473026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4731 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4732 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4733 end up negative.
4734
26034054
PH
473527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4736 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4737
af66f652
PH
473828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4739
90af77f4
PH
474029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4741 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4742 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4743 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4744 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4745 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4746 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4747 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4748
d8ef3577
PH
474930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4750 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4751 than one IP address.
4752
5cb8cbc6
PH
475331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4754 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4755 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4756 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4757
14702f5b
PH
475832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4759 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4760 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4761 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4762 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4763 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4764
063b1e99
PH
476533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4766 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4767 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4768 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4769
652e1b65
PH
477034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4771 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4772 respected.
4773
6f0c9a4f
PH
477435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4775 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4776 $sender_host_address.
4777
33397d19
PH
477836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4779 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4780 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4781 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4782 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4783 very small.
4784
7bb56e1f
PH
478537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4786
4787 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4788 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4789
ea3bc19b
PH
4790 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4791 just the host names, not the priorities.
4792
4793 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4794 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4795 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4796
ea3bc19b 4797 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4798 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4799
0bcb2a0e
PH
480038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4801 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4802 domain.
4803
2ac0e484
PH
480439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4805
4e1fde53
PH
480640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4807 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4808
de365ded
PH
480941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4810 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4811 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4812
f05da2e8
PH
481342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4814
d6453af2
PH
481543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4816
f7b63901
PH
481744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4818
481945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4820 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4821 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4822 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4823 because the tests only now provoked it.
4824
a444213a
PH
482546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4826 (this can affect the format of dates).
4827
0ec020ea
PH
482847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4829 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4830 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4831 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4832
b1206957
PH
483348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4834
483549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4836 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4837 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4838 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4839
26dd5a95
PH
484050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4841 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4842 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4843
343b2385
PH
484451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4845 autoreply.
4846
1c5466b9
PH
484752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4848 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4849 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4850 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4851 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4852 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4853 is going on).
4854
55ee9ee3
PH
485553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4856 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4857 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4858 the line.
4859
d38f8232
PH
486054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4861 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4862 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4863
4864 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4865 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4866 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4867 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4868 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4869 so I produce this patch..."
4870
3295e65b
PH
4871 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4872 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4873 is not defined.
4874
7102e136
PH
487555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4876 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4877 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4878 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4879 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4880
3ca0ba97
PH
488156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4882
c2bcbe20
PH
488357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4884 long debug lines gets shown.
4885
18ce445d
PH
488658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4887 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4888
1f5b4c3d
PH
488959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4890
4891 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4892 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4893 of $primary_hostname.
4894
b975ba52
PH
489560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4896 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4897 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4898 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4899 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4900 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4901 by change 4.50/55 above.
4902
4903 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4904 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4905 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4906 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4907 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4908 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4909 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4910
491161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4912 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4913 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4914 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4915
17ffcae7
PH
491662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4917 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4918
d95f9fdb
PH
491963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4920 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4921 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4922 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4923 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4924
86b8287f
PH
492564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4926 This has been fixed.
4927
60dc5e56
PH
492865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4929 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4930 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4931 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4932 the caching.)
4933
533244af
PH
493466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4935
a5a28604
PH
493667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4937 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4938 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4939 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4940
7e634d24
PH
494168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4942 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4943
3e11c26b
PH
494469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4945 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4946 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4947
6729cf78
PH
494870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4949 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4950 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4951 message there.
4952
00f00ca5
PH
495371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4954 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4955 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4956
c9bdd01c
PH
495772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4958 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4959 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4960 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4961
d43194df
PH
496273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4963 during host lookups.
4964
fe5b5d0b
PH
496574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4966 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4967
4968 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4969
76a2d7ba
PH
497075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4971 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4972 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4973 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4974 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4975 background.
4976
497776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4978 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4979
04f7d5b9
PH
498077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4981 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4982 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4983
bc60667e
PH
498478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4985
bb6e88ff
PH
498679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4987 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4988 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4989 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4990 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4991 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4992 process earlier.
4993
1e70f85b
PH
499480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4995 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4996 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4997 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4998 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4999
500081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5001 tables).
5002
4e01f9d6
PH
500382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5004
1ee1cef2
PH
500583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5006 "vacation" handling.
5007
6e2b4ccc
PH
500884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5009 OS variants using glibc.
5010
8e669ac1
PH
501185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5012
495ae4b0 5013
bbe902f0
PH
5014----------------------------------------------------
5015See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5016----------------------------------------------------
5017
5018
5019Exim version 4.44
5020-----------------
5021
5022 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5023 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5024 transport
5025
5026 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5027 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5028 place.
5029
5030 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5031 filter fails to execute.
5032
5033 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5034 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5035 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5036 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5037 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5038
5039 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5040 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5041 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5042 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5043
5044 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5045 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5046 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5047 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5048 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5049
5050 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5051
5052 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5053 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5054 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5055 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5056
5057 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5058 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5059 sender verification.
5060
506110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5062 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5063
506411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5065 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5066
506712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5068 ignore_target_hosts.
5069
507013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5071 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5072 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5073 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5074 "[x.x.x.x]".
5075
507614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5077 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5078 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5079
508015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5081 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5082 wake it up if nothing else does.
5083
508416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5085 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5086 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5087 end up negative.
5088
508917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5090 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5091
ea3a6f44 509218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5093
509419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5095 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5096 empty pattern.
5097
509820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5099 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5100 one IP address.
5101
ea3a6f44
NM
510221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5103 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5104 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5105 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5106 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5107 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5108
ea3a6f44
NM
510922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5110 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5111 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5112
511323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5114 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5115 $sender_host_address.
5116
511724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5118
ea3a6f44
NM
511925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5120 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5121 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5122
512326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5124 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5125
ea3a6f44
NM
512627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5127 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5128
ea3a6f44
NM
512928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5130 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5131 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5132 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5133
513429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5135 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5136 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5137
ea3a6f44
NM
513830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5139 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5140 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5141 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5142
ea3a6f44
NM
514331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5144 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5145 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5146
ea3a6f44
NM
514731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5148 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5149
ea3a6f44
NM
515032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5151 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5152 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5153 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5154 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5155 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5156 is going on).
bbe902f0 5157
ea3a6f44
NM
515833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5159 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5160 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5161 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5162 CAN-2005-0021
5163
ea3a6f44
NM
516434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5165 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5166 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5167 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5168 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5169 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5170 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5171
5172 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5173 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5174 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5175 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5176 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5177 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5178 CAN-2005-0021
5179
ea3a6f44
NM
518035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5181 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5182 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5183 CAN-2005-0022
5184
ea3a6f44
NM
518536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5186 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5187 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5188 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5189 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5190
ea3a6f44
NM
519137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5192 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5193 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5194 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5195 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5196
ea3a6f44
NM
519738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5198 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5199 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5200 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5201 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5202
5203
495ae4b0
PH
5204Exim version 4.43
5205-----------------
5206
5207 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5208 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5209 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5210 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5211 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5212 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5213 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5214
5215 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5216 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5217 the delivery.
5218
5219 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5220
5221 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5222
5223 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5224 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5225 to local_scan().
5226
5227 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5228 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5229 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5230 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5231 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5232
5233 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5234 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5235
5236 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5237
5238 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5239
524010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5241 header_sender only.
5242
524311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5244 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5245
524612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5247 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5248 affecting debugging statements).
5249
525013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5251
525214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5253 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5254 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5255 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5256 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5257 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5258 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5259 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5260 after the received time, and all would be well.
5261
526215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5263 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5264 condition in an expansion string.
5265
526616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5267
526817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5269 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5270 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5271 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5272 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5273 job under whatever limits there are.
5274
527518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5276
527719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5278 space).
5279
528020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5281 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5282 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5283 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5284 return path is set.
5285
528621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5287 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5288 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5289 binary data in such strings.
5290
529122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5292
529323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5294 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5295 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5296 failure, which is pointless.
5297
529824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5299
530025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5301
530226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5303 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5304 Sender: header lines.
5305
530627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5307 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5308 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5309
531028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5311 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5312 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5313 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5314 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5315 happens.
5316
531729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5318 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5319 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5320 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5321 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5322
532330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5324 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5325 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5326 1024.
5327
532831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5329 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5330
533132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5332 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5333
533433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5335
533632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5337
533833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5339
534034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5341 syntax error.
5342
534335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5344
534536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5346
534737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5348 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5349 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5350 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5351
535238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5353 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5354
5355
5356Exim version 4.42
5357-----------------
5358
5359 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5360 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5361 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5362 it was not quoted.
5363 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5364 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5365 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5366 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5367 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5368 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5369
5370 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5371 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5372 verification failure".
5373
5374 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5375 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5376 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5377 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5378
5379 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5380 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5381 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5382 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5383 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5384 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5385 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5386 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5387 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5388 treated as a timeout.
5389
5390 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5391 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5392 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5393 not set for Exim filters).
5394
5395 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5396 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5397 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5398
5399 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5400
5401 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5402 try to make them clearer.
5403
5404 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5405 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5406
5407 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5408
5409 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5410
541110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5412 only the Cygwin environment.
5413
541411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5415 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5416 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5417 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5418 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5419
542012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5421 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5422 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5423 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5424 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5425 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5426 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5427
542813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5429 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5430
543114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5432
5433 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5434 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5435 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5436
5437 To: susanne@some.where
5438
5439 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5440 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5441 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5442 of addresses in From: header lines).
5443
5444 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5445 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5446 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5447
5448 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5449 treated as non-personal.
5450
5451 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5452 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5453
545415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5455
545616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5457
545817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5459 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5460 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5461
546218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5463 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5464
546519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5466 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5467 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5468 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5469 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5470 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5471
547220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5473 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5474 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5475 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5476 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5477 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5478 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5479 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5480
5481 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5482
548321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5484 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5485
548622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5487 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5488 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5489
549023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5491 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5492
549324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5494 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5495 rather than long int.
5496
549725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5498
549926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5500
5501
5502Exim version 4.41
5503-----------------
5504
5505 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5506 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5507 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5508 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5509 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5510 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5511
5512
5513Exim version 4.40
5514-----------------
5515
5516 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5517 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5518
5519 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5520 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5521 socklen_t is defined.
5522
5523 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5524 always exist.
5525
5526 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5527 configured.
5528
5529 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5530 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5531 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5532 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5533 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5534
5535 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5536 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5537 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5538 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5539
5540 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5541 of flapping under certain conditions.
5542
5543 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5544 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5545 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5546
5547 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5548
554910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5550
555111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5552 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5553 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5554 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5555
555612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5557 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5558 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5559 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5560 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5561 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5562 preserved with the message after it was received.
5563
556413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5565 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5566 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5567 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5568 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5569 test suite worked just fine.
5570
557114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5572 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5573 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5574
557515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5576 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5577 string.
5578
557916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5580 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5581 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5582 does not fully solve it.
5583
558417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5585 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5586 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5587 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5588 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5589
559018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5591 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5592 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5593
559419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5595 string, for example:
5596
5597 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5598
5599 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5600 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5601 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5602 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5603 the routers could not see them.
5604
560520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5606 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5607
560821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5609 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5610 output).
5611
561222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5613 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5614 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5615 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5616 that needed quoting.
5617
561823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5619 was not being matched caselessly.
5620
562124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5622 backslashes.
5623
562425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5625 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5626 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5627 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5628 when use_sender is false.
5629
563026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5631
563227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5633
563428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5635
563629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5637 the configuration file.
5638
563930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5640 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5641
564231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5643
564432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5645 bytes in the message body.
5646
564733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5648 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5649 delivery.
5650
565134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5652
565335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5654
565536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5656 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5657 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5658 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5659 another IP address.
5660
5661
5662Exim version 4.34
5663-----------------
5664
5665 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5666 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5667
5668 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5669 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5670 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5671 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5672 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5673
5674 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5675 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5676
5677 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5678 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5679 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5680
5681 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5682 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5683 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5684
5685 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5686 for routers.
5687
5688 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5689 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5690 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5691 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5692 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5693 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5694 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5695
5696
5697Exim version 4.33
5698-----------------
5699
5700 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5701 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5702 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5703 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5704 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5705 default (and expected) setting.
5706
5707 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5708 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5709 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5710 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5711
5712 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5713 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5714
5715 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5716 in domain lists.
5717
5718 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5719 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5720 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5721 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5722 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5723 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5724
5725 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5726 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5727 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5728
5729 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5730 part (NOT match_host).
5731
5732 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5733
5734 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5735 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5736 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5737 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5738 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5739 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5740 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5741 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5742 the same named file.
5743
574410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5745 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5746 when Exim is built.
5747
574811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5749 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5750 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5751 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5752 a host name.
5753
575412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5755 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5756 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5757
575813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5759
576014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5761
576215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5763
576416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5765 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5766
576717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5768 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5769 before starting the TLS session.
5770
577118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5772
577319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5774 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5775
577620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5777 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5778 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5779 colon in the middle).
5780
5781
5782Exim version 4.32
5783-----------------
5784
5785 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5786 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5787 multiple configurations are in use.
5788
5789 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5790 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5791 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5792 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5793 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5794 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5795
5796 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5797 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5798
5799 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5800 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5801 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5802
5803 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5804 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5805 occurs.
5806
5807 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5808 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5809
5810 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5811
5812 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5813 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5814
5815 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5816
5817 -prval:sval
5818
5819 is equivalent to
5820
5821 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5822
5823 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5824 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5825 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5826 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5827 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5828
582910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5830 Exim's behaviour:
5831
5832 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5833 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5834 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5835 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5836 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5837 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5838
5839 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5840 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5841 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5842 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5843 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5844 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5845 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5846 string.
5847
5848 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5849 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5850 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5851 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5852 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5853
585411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5855
585612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5857 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5858 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5859
586013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5861
586214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5863 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5864 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5865 information.
5866
586715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5868 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5869
587016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5871 Three changes have been made:
5872
5873 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5874 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5875 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5876 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5877 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5878
5879 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5880 been restored.
5881
5882 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5883 the modified behaviour.
5884
5885
5886Exim version 4.31
5887-----------------
5888
5889 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5890 Larry Rosenman.
5891
5892 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5893 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5894
5895 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5896 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5897 try to track down a specific problem.
5898
5899 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5900 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5901 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5902
5903 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5904 warning.
5905
5906 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5907 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5908 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5909 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5910 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5911 some earlier ones do not.
5912
5913 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5914
5915 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5916 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5917 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5918 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5919 address literals are enabled, of course).
5920
5921 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5922
592310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5924 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5925 by a command such as
5926
5927 exim -f "" ...
5928
5929 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5930
593111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5932
593312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5934 remained set. It is now erased.
5935
593613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5937 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5938
593914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5940 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5941 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5942 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5943 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5944 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5945 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5946 appropriate error code.
5947
594815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5949 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5950 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5951 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5952 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5953 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5954
595516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5956 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5957 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5958
595917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5960 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5961 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5962 terminate the header.
5963
596418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5965 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5966 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5967
596819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5969 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5970 (4.30/29). In particular:
5971
5972 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5973 imposed.
5974
5975 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5976 to write a maildirsize file.
5977
5978 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5979 the transport, the new value overrides.
5980
5981 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5982 count.
5983
598420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5985 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5986 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5987 space or a tab.
5988
598921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5990 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5991 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5992 the fallback hosts.
5993
599422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5995 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5996 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5997
599823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5999 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6000 using a union.
6001
600224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6003 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6004 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6005
600625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6007
600826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6009
601027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6011
601228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6013 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6014 become corrupted.
6015
601629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6017 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6018 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6019 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6020 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6021 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6022 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6023 too great.
6024
602530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6026 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6027 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6028 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6029 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6030 incorrectly.
6031
603231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6033 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6034 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6035 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6036 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6037 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6038 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6039 cached value only when the same options are set.
6040
604132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6042
604333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6044 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6045 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6046 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6047 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6048
604934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6050 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6051 it is clearly obsolete.
6052
605335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6054 transport.
6055
605636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6057 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6058 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6059 times.
6060
606137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6062 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6063 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6064 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6065 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6066
606738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6068 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6069 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6070 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6071
607239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6073
6074 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6075
6076 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6077 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6078 2^31.
6079
608040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6081 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6082 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6083 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6084 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6085 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6086 $localpart_data.
6087
608841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6089 with the -f command-line option.
6090
609142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6092 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6093 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6094 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6095 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6096 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6097
609843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6099 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6100 line.
6101
610244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6103 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6104 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6105 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6106 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6107 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6108 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6109 buffer is too small.
6110
611145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6112 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6113
611446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6115 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6116 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6117 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6118 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6119 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6120 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6121 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6122 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6123
612447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6125 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6126 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6127
612848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6129 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6130 ACL").
6131
613249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6133 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6134 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6135 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6136 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6137
613850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6139 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6140 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6141 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6142 is set.
6143
614451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6145
614652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6147
614853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6149 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6150
615154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6152 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6153 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6154
615555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6156 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6157 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6158 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6159 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6160
616156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6162 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6163 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6164 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6165 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6166 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6167 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6168
616957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6170 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6171 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6172 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6173 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6174 the test of how many are available.
6175
617658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6177 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6178 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6179 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6180 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6181 new message is started.
6182
618359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6184 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6185
618660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6187 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6188
618961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6190 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6191 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6192 is no long logged.
6193
619462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6195 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6196 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6197 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6198 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6199 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6200 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6201
620263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6203 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6204 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6205 interpreted as octal.
6206
620764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6208 setting.
6209
621065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6211 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6212 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6213 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6214 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6215 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6216
621766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6218 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6219 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6220 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6221
6222 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6223 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6224 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6225 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6226
6227 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6228 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6229 is a bug fix.
6230
6231 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6232 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6233
623467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6235
623668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6237 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6238 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6239 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6240
624169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6242 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6243 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6244 supplied", which is not helpful.
6245
624670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6247 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6248 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6249
625071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6251 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6252 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6253 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6254 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6255 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6256 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6257 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6258
625972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6260 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6261 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6262 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6263 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6264
626573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6266 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6267 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6268 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6269 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6270 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6271
627274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6273 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6274 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6275
627675. Added write_rejectlog option.
6277
627876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6279 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6280 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6281 variables.
6282
628377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6284
628578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6286 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6287 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6288 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6289 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6290 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6291 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6292 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6293
629479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6295 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6296 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6297 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6298 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6299
630080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6301 Haardt.
6302
630381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6304 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6305 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6306 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6307 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6308 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6309 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6310 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6311 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6312
6313
6314Exim version 4.30
6315-----------------
6316
6317 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6318 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6319 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6320
6321 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6322 fixed.
6323
6324 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6325 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6326 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6327
6328 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6329 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6330 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6331 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6332 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6333 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6334
6335 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6336 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6337 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6338 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6339 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6340 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6341 the Exim test suite.
6342
6343 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6344 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6345 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6346 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6347
6348 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6349 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6350 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6351 specify it in this variable.
6352
6353 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6354 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6355 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6356 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6357
6358 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6359 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6360 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6361 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6362
6363 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6364 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6365 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6366 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6367 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6368
6369 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6370
637110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6372 they are logged.
6373
637411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6375 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6376 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6377 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6378 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6379
638012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6381 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6382
638313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6384 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6385 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6386 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6387 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6388
638914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6390 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6391
639215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6393 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6394 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6395
639616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6397 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6398
639917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6400 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6401
640218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6403 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6404 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6405
640619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6407 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6408
640920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6410 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6411 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6412 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6413
641421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6415
641622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6417 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6418 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6419 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6420
642123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6422
642324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6424 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6425
642625. Added .include_if_exists.
6427
642826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6429 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6430 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6431 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6432 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6433 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6434
643527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6436
643728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6438 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6439 this.
6440
644129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6442
644330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6444 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6445
6446 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6447 550 Sender verify failed
6448
6449 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6450 the final line of the response.
6451
645231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6453 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6454 all other user lookups.
6455
645632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6457 delivery time.
6458
645933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6460 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6461 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6462 result into an int without checking.
6463
646434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6465 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6466 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6467
646835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6469 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6470 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6471 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6472
647336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6474 correctly.
6475
647637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6477 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6478
647938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6480 to the empty sender.
6481
648239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6483 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6484 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6485 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6486 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6487 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6488 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6489 panic log.
6490
649140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6492 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6493 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6494 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6495 used.
6496
649741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6498 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6499
650042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6501 timestamps.
6502
650343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6504 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6505
650644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6507
650845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6509 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6510 logs.
6511
651246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6513 as soon as it is encountered.
6514
651547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6516
651748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6518 rewritten to "<>".
6519
652049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6521 recognizes a tab character.
6522
652350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6524 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6525 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6526 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6527
652851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6529
653052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6531 crash.
6532
653353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6534
653554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6536
653755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6538 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6539 2822.
6540
654156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6542 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6543 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6544 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6545 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6546
654757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6548 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6549
655058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6551 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6552 list (.included file names were always shown).
6553
655459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6555 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6556 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6557 root at that time.
6558
655960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6560 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6561
656261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6563
656462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6565
656663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6567
656864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6569 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6570 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6571 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6572 failures to open the logs.
6573
657465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6575 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6576 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6577 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6578 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6579 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6580 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6581
6582
6583Exim version 4.24
6584-----------------
6585
6586 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6587 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6588 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6589 change 4.23/1.
6590
6591 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6592 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6593 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6594
6595 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6596 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6597 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6598
6599 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6600 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6601 causing some misleading effects.
6602
6603 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6604 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6605 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6606
6607 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6608 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6609 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6610 queue-runner function directly.
6611
6612
6613Exim version 4.23
6614-----------------
6615
6616 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6617 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6618
6619 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6620 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6621 was always written to the default place.
6622
6623 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6624 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6625 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6626
6627 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6628
6629 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6630
6631 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6632 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6633 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6634
6635 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6636 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6637 must start.
6638
6639 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6640 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6641 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6642
6643 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6644 command line option is disabled.
6645
6646 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6647 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6648
6649 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6650
6651 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6652
6653 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6654 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6655
665610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6657
665811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6659 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6660 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6661 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6662 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6663 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6664
666512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6666 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6667 timeout.
6668
666913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6670 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6671
667214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6673 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6674
667515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6676 received was valid base64.
6677
667816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6679 name of the variable that was being set.
6680
668117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6682
668318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6684 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6685 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6686 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6687 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6688 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6689
669019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6691
669220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6693 nor realm was specified.
6694
669521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6696 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6697 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6698 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6699
670022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6701 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6702 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6703
670423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6705 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6706 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6707
670824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6709 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6710 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6711 some systems use these upper case variants.
6712
671325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6714 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6715 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6716 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6717
671826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6719
672027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6721 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6722
672328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6724 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6725 expansion variable.
6726
672729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6728
672930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6730 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6731 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6732 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6733
673431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6735 using it.
6736
673732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6738 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6739 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6740
674133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6742 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6743
674434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6745 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6746 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6747 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6748
674935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6750 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6751 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6752
675336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6754
675537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6756 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6757 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6758 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6759 aborted.
6760
676138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6762 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6763 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6764
676539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6766
676740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6768 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6769
677041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6771 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6772
677342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6774 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6775 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6776 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6777 when emails are that large.
6778
6779
6780
6781Exim version 4.22
6782-----------------
6783
6784 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6785 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6786
6787 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6788 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6789 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6790
6791 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6792 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6793 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6794
6795 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6796 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6797 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6798 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6799 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6800
6801 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6802 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6803 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6804 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6805 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6806 ever.
6807
6808 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6809 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6810 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6811 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6812 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6813 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6814 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6815 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6816 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6817 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6818 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6819 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6820 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6821 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6822
6823 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6824 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6825 parameterised it.
6826
6827 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6828 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6829 error should be diagnosed.
6830
6831 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6832 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6833 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6834 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6835 appeared instead of "NULL".
6836
683710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6838 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6839 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6840 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6841 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6842 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6843 proceeds).
6844
6845 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6846 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6847 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6848
6849
6850Exim version 4.21
6851-----------------
6852
6853 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6854 or receiver verification errors.
6855
6856 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6857 name.
6858
6859 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6860 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6861 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6862 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6863
6864 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6865 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6866 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6867 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6868 shouldn't happen again.
6869
6870 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6871 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6872 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6873
6874 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6875 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6876
6877 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6878
6879 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6880 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6881
6882 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6883 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6884 RFC.
6885
688610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6887 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6888 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6889
689011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6891 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6892 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6893 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6894
689512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6896 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6897 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6898 to define what should happen).
6899
690013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6901 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6902 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6903
690414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6905
690615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6907
690816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6909 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6910
4c04137d 691117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6912 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6913 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6914 structure in all cases.
6915
6916 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6917 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6918 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6919 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6920
692118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6922 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6923 domain name.
6924
692519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6926 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6927
692820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6929 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6930
693121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6932 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6933 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6934
693522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6936 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6937 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6938
693923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6940 the book and for uniformity.
6941
694224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6943
694425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6945 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6946 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6947 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6948 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6949 non-existent command as the problem.
6950
695126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6952 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6953 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6954
695527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6956
695728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6958 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6959 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6960
696129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6962 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6963 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6964 timestamps using strftime().
6965
696630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6967 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6968
696932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6970 transport-time rewrites.
6971
697233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6973 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6974 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6975 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6976
697734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6978 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6979
698035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6981 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6982 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6983 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6984 comma and a space.
6985
698636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6987 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6988 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6989 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6990 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6991 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6992 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6993
699437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6995 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6996 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6997 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6998 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6999
700038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7001 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7002 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7003 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7004 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7005 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7006 remaining text gets split now.
7007
700839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7009 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7010 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7011 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7012
701340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7014 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7015 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7016 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7017 $return_path.
7018
701941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7020 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7021 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7022 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7023 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7024 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7025 passed through if needed.
7026
702742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7028 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7029 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7030 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7031 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7032 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7033
703443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7035 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7036 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7037 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7038 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7039
704044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7041 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7042 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7043 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7044 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7045
704645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7047 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7048 noticed.
7049
705046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7051 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7052 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7053 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7054 mayhem of various kinds.
7055
705647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7057 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7058 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7059 the right test for positive values.
7060
706148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7062 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7063 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7064 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7065 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7066 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7067 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7068 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7069 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7070 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7071 envelope.
7072
707349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7074 module.
7075
707650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7077 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7078 forbidding it.
7079
708051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7081 the existing equality matching.
7082
708352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7084 dealing with inode numbers.
7085
708653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7087 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7088 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7089
709054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7091 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7092 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7093 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7094 local_scan().
7095
709655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7097 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7098 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7099 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7100 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7101 relay addresses has also been removed.
7102
710356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7104
710557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7106 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7107 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7108
710958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7110 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7111 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7112 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7113 processing applies to CR:
7114
7115 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7116 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7117
7118 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7119 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7120 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7121 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7122
712359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7124 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7125 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7126
712760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7128 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7129 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7130 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7131 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7132 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7133 arisen.
7134
713561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7136 program routers.
7137
713862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7139 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7140 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7141 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7142 adds:
7143
7144 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7145
7146 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7147
7148 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7149
715063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7151 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7152 not considered personal.
7153
715464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7155
715665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7157
715866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7159
716067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7161 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7162 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7163 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7164 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7165 header lines, and spool format errors.
7166
716768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7168 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7169 for more flexibility.
7170
717169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7172 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7173 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7174
717570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7176 Sabourenkov.
7177
717871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7179 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7180 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7181 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7182 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7183 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7184 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7185 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7186 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7187
718872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7189 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7190 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7191 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7192 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7193 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7194 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7195
719673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7197 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7198 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7199
720074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7201 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7202 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7203 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7204 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7205 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7206 instead of killing the process with assert().
7207
720875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7209 than Unicode encoding.
7210
721176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7212 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7213 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7214 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7215
721677. Added process_log_path.
7217
721878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7219 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7220
722179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7222 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7223
722480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7225 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7226 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7227
722881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7229 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7230 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7231 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7232 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7233 were applied:
7234
7235 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7236 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7237 as invalid.
7238
723982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7240 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7241 they will be used during message reception.
7242
7243
7244Exim version 4.20
7245-----------------
7246
7247The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7248
7249****