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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
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d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
48
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49JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
50
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51JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
52
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53PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
54
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55NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
56 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 57
585121e2 58JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 59
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60PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
61
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62PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
63 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
64
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65JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
66 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
67 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 68
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69JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
70
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71JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
72
ea722490 73JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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74 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
75
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76JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
77 Bugzilla 884.
78
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79JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
80 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
81
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82JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
83 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
84
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85PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
86 CVE-2012-5671
87
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88JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
89 authenticators.
90
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91JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
92 for control.
93
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94PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
95
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96PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
97 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
98 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
99 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
100
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101TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
102
103 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
104 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
105 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
106 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
107 the retry rules.
108
109 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
110 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
111 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
112
113 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
114 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
115 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
116 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
117
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118 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
119 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
120 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
121 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
122 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
123 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
124 delivery, as in LMTP.
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126 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
127 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
128
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129TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
130
131 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
132
133 Resent-From: f
134
135 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
136 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
137 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
138 username as equal to the username.
139
140 This change corrects that bug.
141
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142GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
143 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
144 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
145
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146TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
147
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148PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
149 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
150 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
151 NULL dereference and crash.
152
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153JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
154
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155PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
156 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
157 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
158
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159SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
160
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161JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
162 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
163 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
164 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
165 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
166 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
167 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
168 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
169 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
170 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
171 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
172
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173PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
174 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
175
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176PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
177 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
178 Bugzilla 880.
179
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180PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
181 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
182 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
183 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
184 an empty string is now equivalent.
185
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186PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
187 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
188 not performing validation itself.
189
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190PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
191 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
192
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194Exim version 4.80.1
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196
197PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
198 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 199 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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204
205PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
206 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
207 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
208
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209NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
210
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211NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
212 improved.
213
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214NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
215
c1e794ba 216PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 217
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218PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
219
220PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
221 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
222
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223PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
224 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
225
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226PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
227 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
228
f1e05cc7 229PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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230 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
231 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 232
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233PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
234
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235PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
236 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
237
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238PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
239
c45dd180 240PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 241
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242PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
243 non-compliant senders.
244 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
245
eae0036b 246NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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247 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
248 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
249
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250PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
251 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
252 in spool file corruption.
253
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254PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
255 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
256 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
257 "Got SSL error 2".
258
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259TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
260 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
261 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
262
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263JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
264 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
265
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266JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
267
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268PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
269 diagnostics.
270 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
271
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272PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
273 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
274 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
275
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276PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
277 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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278 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
279 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 280
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281PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
282 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
283
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284PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
285 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
286 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
287 resolver implementation change.
288
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289PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
290 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
291
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292PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
293
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294PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
295
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296PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
297 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
298
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299PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
300 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
301
9e45c72b 302JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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303 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
304
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305PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
306 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
307 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
308 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 309 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 310
53947857 311PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 312
eae0036b 313PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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314 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
315 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 316
9e45c72b 317JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 318
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319PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
320 read-only, out of scope).
321 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
322
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323PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
324 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
325 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
326 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
327
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328PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
329
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330PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
331 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
332 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
333 real issues in debug logging.
334
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335PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
336 assignment on my part. Fixed.
337
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338PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
339 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
340 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
341
342PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
343 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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344 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
345 problems.
3375e053 346
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347PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
348 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
349
57eb9e91 350PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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351 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
352 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
353 needs to override this, it can.
354
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355PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
356 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
357 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
358
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359PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
360 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
361 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
362 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
363
3ecab157 364PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
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367Exim version 4.77
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369
370PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
371 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
372
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373TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
374
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375TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
376 whitespace trailer
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378TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
379 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
380
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381TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
382 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
383 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
384
385 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
386 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
387 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
388 not safe for signals.
389
390 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
391 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
392 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
393 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
394 exiwhat.
395
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396TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
397
398 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
399 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
400 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
401 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
402 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
403
404 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
405 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
406 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
407 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
408 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
409 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
410
411 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
412 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
413 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
414 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
415
416 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
417 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
418 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
419 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
420
421 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
422 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
423 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
424 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
425 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
426 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
427 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
428 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
429 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
430
431 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
432 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
433 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
434 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
435
436 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
437 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
438 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
439 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
440 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
441 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
442 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
443 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
444 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
445 details in the main documentation.
446
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447TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
448
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449TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
450
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451TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
452 repository when doing development or release builds.
453
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454PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
455 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 456
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457PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
458 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
459 Bugzilla 97.
460
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461PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
462
9e949f00 463PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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464 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
465
466PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
467 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 468
555ae6af 469PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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470 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
471
472PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
473 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 474
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475PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
476 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
477
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478PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
479 Bugzilla 1156.
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480 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
481 Bugzilla 1095.
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d6cc7c78 483PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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484 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
485 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
486
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487PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
488
3399bb60 489PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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490
491PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
492 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
493
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495Exim version 4.76
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497
498PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
499
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500PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
501 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
502
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503PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
504
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505PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
506
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507PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
508 Bugzilla 1098.
509
4e7ee012
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510PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
511 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 512
c8d52a00
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513TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
514 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
515
54e7ce4a
PP
516PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
517 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
518
5ee6f336
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519PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
520 Bugzilla 1104.
521
c8d52a00 522TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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523 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
524
525TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
526 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
527 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
528 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
529
530PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
531 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 532
10906672 533
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534Exim version 4.75
535-----------------
536
4c9ef03a 537NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
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538 Bugzilla 1073
539
7f3d9eff
TF
540TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
541 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
542 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
543
159f52d2
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544TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
545 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
546
0cc9542a
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547PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
548 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
549 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
550
f7274286
PP
551PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
552 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
553
7b797365
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554PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
555 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
556
caacae52
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557NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
558 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
559
09dcaba9
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560NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
561 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
562
bc19a55b
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563PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
564 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 565
bd4c9759
NM
566NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
567 Fixes bug 943.
568
b72aab72
PP
569PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
570 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
571
2fe76745
PP
572PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
573 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
574
76aa570c
PP
575PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
576 SQL string expansion failure details.
577 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
578
f1e5fef5
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579PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
580 Patch from Simon Arlott.
581
4d805ee9
PP
582PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
583 extern declarations in function scope.
584 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
585
cd59ab18
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586PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
587 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
588 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
589 a kernel bug).
590
332f5cf3
PP
591PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
592 Patch from Mark Zealey.
593
29cfeb94
PP
594PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
595 Patch from Mark Zealey.
596
660242ad
PP
597PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
598 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
599
bc4bc4c5
PP
600PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
601 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
602
2e64baa9
NM
603NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
604 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
605 Dennis Davis.
606
bddd7526
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607PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
608
6bac1a9a
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609PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
610
552193f0
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611NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
612 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 613
1b587e48
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614TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
615 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
616
aa097c4c 617
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618Exim version 4.74
619-----------------
620
621TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
622 consequences so log it to the panic log.
623
c0ea85ab
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624TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
625 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
626
0761d44e
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627TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
628
0a349494
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629DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
630 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
631 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
632
633PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
634 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
635 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
636
fea24b2e
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637PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
638 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
639 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
640 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
641
6545de78
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642PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
643 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
644 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
645 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
646
1670ef10
PP
647PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
648 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
649 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
650 arbitrary files.
651
c0886197
PP
652PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
653 (Wolfgang Breyha)
654
b7487bce
PP
655PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
656 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
657 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
658 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
659 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
660
8c07b69f 661
97fd1e48 662Exim version 4.73
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664
665PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
666 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
667 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
668
6901c596
PP
669PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
670 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
671
a8c8d6b5
JJ
672JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
673
77bb000f
PP
674PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
675
a29e5231
PP
676PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
677
ec5a0394 678PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 679
55c75993
PP
680PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
681
453a6645 682PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
683 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
684 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
685 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
686
8544e77a
PP
687PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
688 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
689 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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690 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
691 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 692
83e029d5
PP
693PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
694
ed7f7860
PP
695PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
696
7d9f747b
PP
697PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
698
4b2241d2
PP
699PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
700
10385c15
PP
701PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
702
dbc4b90d
PP
703PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
704
532be449
PP
705PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
706
6a8de854 707PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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708 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
709 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 710
5dc43717
JJ
711JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
712
713JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
714 "exim" to be used
55c75993 715
3346ab01
PP
716PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
717 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
718
491fab4c
PP
719PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
720 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
721 Notification from John Horne.
722
13eb9497
PP
723PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
724 compatible.
725
726PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
727 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
728 it normally works.
729
7f36d675
DW
730DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
731 access.
732
c1d94452
DW
733DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
734 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
735 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
736
e2f5dc15
DW
737DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
738 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
739 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
740 configuration file.
741
cd25e41d
DW
742DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
743 option (effectively making it always true).
744
261dc43e
DW
745DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
746 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
747
fa32850b
DW
748DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
749 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
750
79d4bc3d
PP
751PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
752 run-time user, instead of root.
753
43236f35 754PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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755 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
756
fb08281f
DW
757DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
758 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
759 arguments.
3346ab01 760
74935b98
DW
761DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
762 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
763 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
764
90b6341f
DW
765DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
766
57730b52
ML
767NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
768
66581d1e 769
465e92cf
JJ
770Exim version 4.72
771-----------------
772
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773JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
774 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
775 typos
465e92cf 776
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777JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
778 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
779 (Finput)
edae0343 780
9bd3e22c
NM
781NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
782 Patch from Alain Williams
783
bb576ff7
NM
784NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
785
5a1a5845
NM
786NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
787 Patch from Andreas Metzler
788
981a9fad
NM
789NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
790 Patch from Kirill Miazine
791
7fc497ee
NM
792NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
793
1a41defa
JJ
794JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
795
a466095c 796NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 797 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 798
94a6bd0b
NM
799TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
800
801TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
802
803MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
804 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
805 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
806
c1b141a8
NM
807NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
808 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 809
b26eacf1 810NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
811 Patch by Simon Arlott
812
179c5980 813PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 814 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 815
9bd3e22c 816
7c6d71af
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817Exim version 4.71
818-----------------
819
7d9f747b 820TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 821
f013fb92
NM
822NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
823
0eb8eedd
NM
824NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
825
663ee6d9
NM
826NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
827
177ebd9b
NM
828NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
829
7c6d71af 830
210f147e
NM
831Exim version 4.70
832-----------------
833
cdd3bb85 834TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 835 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
836
837TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
838 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 839 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
840
841TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
842 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 843 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
844
845TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
846 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
847
210f147e
NM
848NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
849 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
850 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
851 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
852
deafd5b3
NM
853NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
854 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 855 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 856
089793a4
TF
857TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
858
5f16ca82
TF
859TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
860
dae9d94e 861NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 862 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 863
7d9f747b 864NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 865
06864c44
TF
866TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
867 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
868 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
869 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
870
65a7d8c3 871NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 872 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 873
23510047 874TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 875
7d9f747b 876NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 877
7d8eec3a 878NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 879 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 880
89dec7b6
TF
881TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
882 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 883
a99de90c
TF
884TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
885 that they are available at delivery time.
886
e2803e40
TF
887TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
888
7199e1ee
TF
889TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
890 incoming_port log selectors.
891
e276e04b
TF
892TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
893 setting expands to an empty string.
894
ce552449 895NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 896 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 897
e765a0f1 898NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 899 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 900
4f054c63 901NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 902 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 903
7d9f747b
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904NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
905 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 906
7d9f747b
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907NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
908 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 909
b52bc06e 910NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 911 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 912
447de4b0
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913NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
914
4c69d561 915NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 916 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 917
d5c39246 918NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 919 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 920
0b23848a
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921TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
922
8f3414a1 923NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 924 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 925
fb6f955d
NM
926NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
927
928NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 929
7d9f747b
PP
930NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
931 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 932
7d9f747b
PP
933NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
934 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 935
7d9f747b
PP
936NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
937 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 938
7d9f747b
PP
939NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
940 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 941
7d9f747b
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942NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
943 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 944
7d9f747b
PP
945NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
946 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 947
7d9f747b
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948NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
949 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 950
7d9f747b 951NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 952 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 953
7d9f747b 954NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 955
7d9f747b
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956NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
957 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 958
7d9f747b 959NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 960
7d9f747b 961NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 962
7d9f747b 963NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 964
7d9f747b 965NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 966
17792b53 967NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 968 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 969
7d9f747b
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970NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
971 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 972
91576cec 973NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 974 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 975
7d9f747b
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976NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
977 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 978
7d9f747b 979NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 980
7d9f747b 981NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 982
7d9f747b 983NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 984
7d9f747b 985NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 986
deafd5b3 987
47db1125
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988Exim version 4.69
989-----------------
990
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991TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
992 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
993 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
994
995 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
996 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
997 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
998 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
999 build errors in sieve.c.
1000
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1001NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1002 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1003 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1004
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1005SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1006
7d9f747b 1007NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1008
7d9f747b 1009NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1010
7d9f747b 1011NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1012
1013
eb4c0de6
PH
1014Exim version 4.68
1015-----------------
1016
1017PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1018
6a3bceb1
PH
1019PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1020 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1021 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1022 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1023 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1024 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1025 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1026 for iplsearch lookups.
1027
1028 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1029 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1030 previously such lookups could never work.
1031
1032 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1033 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1034 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1035
2e30fa9d
TK
1036TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1037 version.
1038
0806a9c5
MH
1039MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1040 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1041 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1042 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1043 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1044 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1045
ae276964
TK
1046TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1047 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1048
0f2cbd1b
MH
1049MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1050 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1051 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1052 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1053 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1054 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1055
2b85bce7
PH
1056PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1057 local_scan API.
1058
93655c46
PH
1059PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1060
6c512171
PH
1061PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1062 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1063 encrypted.
1064
1065PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1066 by clients under certain conditions.
1067
aa6dc513
PH
1068PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1069 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1070
a96603a0
PH
1071PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1072
8f240103
PH
1073PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1074 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1075
1076PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1077
d677b2f2
PH
1078PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1079
d52120f2
PH
1080PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1081
64f2600a
PH
1082PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1083 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1084
8669f003
PH
1085PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1086
a4dc33a8
PH
1087PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1088 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1089
d6a60c0f
PH
1090PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1091
8f128379
PH
1092PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1093
8932dffe
PH
1094PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1095 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1096 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1097 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1098
ddea74fa 1099PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1100 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1101 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1102
ddea74fa 1103PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1104 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1105
ddea74fa
PH
1106PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1107
ce9f225c
PH
1108PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1109
19897d52
PH
1110PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1111
bc64a74d
PH
1112PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1113 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1114 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1115
eb4c0de6 1116
b4ed4da0
PH
1117Exim version 4.67
1118-----------------
1119
22ad45c9
MH
1120MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1121 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1122 Jan Srzednicki.
1123
b4ed4da0
PH
1124PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1125 issue a MAIL command.
1126
431b7361
PH
1127PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1128
1129 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1130
1131 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1132 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1133 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1134 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1135 item. This has been fixed.
1136
1137PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1138 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1139
83da1223
PH
1140PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1141 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1142
54fc8428
PH
1143PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1144 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1145 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1146
34c5e8dd
SC
1147SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1148
bbe15da8
PH
1149PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1150 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1151 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1152 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1153 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1154
0e8a9471
MH
1155MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1156 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1157 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1158
f0872424
PH
1159PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1160 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1161 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1162 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1163
b01dd148
PH
1164PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1165
6bf342e1
PH
1166PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1167
273f34d0
PH
1168PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1169 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1170 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1171 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1172 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1173
cf8b11a5
PH
1174PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1175
41c7c167
PH
1176PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1177 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1178 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1179 values).
1180
9c57cbc0
PH
1181PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1182
f3f065bb
PH
1183PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1184
047bdd8c
PH
1185PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1186
0ce9abe6
PH
1187PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1188
0e22dfd1
PH
1189PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1190
4c590bd1
PH
1191PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1192 no_callout_flush is set.
1193
09945f1e
PH
1194PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1195 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1196 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1197 fixed.
1198
c51b8e75
PH
1199PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1200
e28326d8
PH
1201PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1202 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1203 other ACL rejections are.
1204
75b1493f
PH
1205PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1206 with slight modification.
1207
7c5214ec
PH
1208PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1209 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1210
4311097e
PH
1211PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1212 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1213 connection.
1214
29f89cad
PH
1215PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1216 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1217
5e687460
SC
1218SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1219
c3611384
PH
1220PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1221 expansion side effects.
1222
5a11a7b4
PH
1223PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1224 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1225 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1226 be the same.
1227
0e20aff9
MH
1228MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1229 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1230 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1231
ca86f471
PH
1232PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1233 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1234 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1235 were accidentally chopped off.
1236
a14e5636
PH
1237PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1238 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1239 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1240 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1241 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1242 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1243 pipelining has not been advertised.
1244
ec95d1a6
PH
1245PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1246
42855d71
PH
1247PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1248 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1249 This has been fixed.
1250
57c2c631
PH
1251PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1252 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1253 reported on Solaris.
1254
58c01c94
PH
1255PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1256 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1257 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1258 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1259 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1260 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1261 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1262
dee5a20a
PH
1263PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1264 cpus.
1265
d2ee6114
PH
1266PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1267
b2d5182b
PH
1268PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1269
79749a79
PH
1270PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1271 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1272 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1273 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1274 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1275 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1276
c456d9bb
PH
1277PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1278 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1279 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1280 host_all_ignored option.
1281
cd9868ec
PH
1282PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1283 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1284 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1285 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1286 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1287 is what is supposed to happen).
1288
ebeaf996
PH
1289PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1290 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1291 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1292 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1293 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1294 uses the Exim user.
1295
2679d413
PH
1296PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1297 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1298 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1299 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1300 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1301 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1302 users.
1303
84024b72
PH
1304PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1305
8005d38e
SC
1306SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1307 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1308 (Jez Hancock).
1309 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1310 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1311
3298c6c6
SC
1312SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1313
a43a27c5
PH
1314PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1315
58eb016e 1316PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1317 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1318 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1319 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1320 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1321 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1322 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1323 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1324 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1325 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1326 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1327
b43a74ea
PH
1328PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1329 advertised in response to EHLO.
1330
b4ed4da0 1331
5dd1517f
PH
1332Exim version 4.66
1333-----------------
1334
1335PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1336 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1337
1338 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1339 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1340
1341 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1342 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1343 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1344
1345 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1346 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1347 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1348 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1349 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1350
1351
93cfa765
TK
1352Exim version 4.65
1353-----------------
1354
1355TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1356 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1357 versions. (#438)
1358
d6066548
MH
1359MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1360 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1361 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1362
4362ff0d
PH
1363PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1364 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1365 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1366 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1367 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1368 rather than extend the field.
1369
93cfa765 1370
944e9e9c
TF
1371Exim version 4.64
1372-----------------
aa41d2de 1373
21d74bd9
TK
1374TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1375 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1376 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1377 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1378 these files.
1379
1380TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1381 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1382 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1383
1384TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1385 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1386 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1387
1388TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1389 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1390 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1391 in the field name.
1392
2b1c6e3a
PH
1393PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1394 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1395 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1396 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1397 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1398 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1399 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1400 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1401 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1402 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1403 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1404
1f872c80
PH
1405PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1406 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1407
1408PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1409 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1410 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1411 ignores EPIPE as well.
1412
d203e649
PH
1413PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1414 (quoted-printable decoding).
1415
cc2ed8f7 1416PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1417 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1418
ddfcd446
PH
1419PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1420
d45b1de8
PH
1421PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1422
1423PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1424
38a0a95f 1425PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1426 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1427
a2405d83
JJ
1428JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1429 in 4.64-PH/09.
1430
1431JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1432 miscellaneous code fixes
1433
6ea85e9a
PH
1434PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1435 rejections.
1436
26da7e20
PH
1437PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1438 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1439 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1440 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1441 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1442 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1443 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1444 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1445
14aa5a05 1446PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1447 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1448 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1449 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1450 function.
1451 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1452 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1453 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1454 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1455 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1456 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1457 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1458 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1459 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1460
ff75a1f7
PH
1461PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1462 decoding.
1463
e6f6568e
PH
1464PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1465 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1466 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1467 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1468 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1469 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1470 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1471 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1472
d6f6e0dc
PH
1473PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1474 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1475 list.
1476
322050c2
PH
1477PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1478 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1479 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1480 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1481 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1482 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1483 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1484 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1485 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1486 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1487 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1488 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1489 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1490
08955dd3
PH
1491PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1492 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1493 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1494 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1495 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1496 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1497 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1498
1eccaa59
PH
1499PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1500 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1501 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1502 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1503 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1504 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1505 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1506 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1507 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1508 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1509
602e59e5
PH
1510PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1511 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1512 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1513 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1514 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1515
411ef850
PH
1516PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1517 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1518 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1519 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1520 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1521 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1522 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1523
7befa435
PH
1524PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1525 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1526 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1527 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1528 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1529 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1530 been verified.
1531
48da4259 1532PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1533 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1534 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1535 and authorization.)
1536
48da4259
PH
1537PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1538 if any retry times were supplied.
1539
d1d5595c
PH
1540PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1541 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1542 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1543
0ef732d9
PH
1544PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1545
328895cc
PH
1546PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1547
fd700877
PH
1548PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1549 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1550 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1551 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1552 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1553 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1554
8dce1a6f
PH
1555PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1556 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1557
17af4a17
PH
1558PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1559 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1560 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1561
1562PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1563 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1564 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1565 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1566 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1567 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1568 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1569 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1570 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1571
1572 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1573 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1574 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1575 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1576 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1577 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1578 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1579 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1580 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1581
1582 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1583 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1584 hammering the server.
1585
c1114884
PH
1586PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1587 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1588
7a0743eb
PH
1589PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1590
0d85fa3f
PH
1591PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1592 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1593 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1594
1bf43b78
PH
1595PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1596 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1597 one case where this was not true.
1598
520de300
PH
1599PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1600 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1601 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1602 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1603 fails.
1604
48c7f9e2
PH
1605PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1606 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1607 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1608 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1609 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1610 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1611 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1612 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1613 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1614 smtp transport.
1615
99ea1c86
PH
1616PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1617 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1618 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1619 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1620
a2042e78
PH
1621PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1622 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1623
4fbcfc2e
PH
1624PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1625 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1626 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1627
aa41d2de
PH
1628PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1629
af561417
PH
1630PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1631
3cc66b45
PH
1632PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1633
194cc0e4
PH
1634PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1635 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1636 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1637 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1638
a401ddaa
PH
1639PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1640 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1641
4e88a19f
PH
1642PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1643 be meaningful with "accept".
1644
d7d7b289
SC
1645SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1646 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1647
1648SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1649 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1650 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1651
1652SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1653 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1654 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1655 there is data to show.
1656 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1657
1658SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1659 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1660 as well as the number of messages.
1661
1662SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1663 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1664 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1665
1666SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1667 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1668 have a flag are now skipped.
1669
1670SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1671 Added the -emptyok flag.
1672
1673SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1674 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1675
0ea2a468
JJ
1676JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1677 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1678 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1679
1680JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1681 match 4.64-PH/13
1682
1683JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1684 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1685
1686JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1687
1688JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1689 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1690
8a10f5a4
PH
1691PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1692
30e18802
PH
1693PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1694 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1695 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1696 contravention of the specifications.
1697
55728a4f
PH
1698PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1699 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1700 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1701
d7837193
PH
1702PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1703 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1704 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1705
87054a31
PH
1706PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1707
ea2c01d2
MH
1708MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1709 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1710 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1711 some point in the past.
1712
e4fa6968
PH
1713PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1714 transport during callout processing was broken.
1715
56f5d9bd
PH
1716PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1717 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1718
922e1c28
PH
1719PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1720 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1721
21eb6e72
PH
1722PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1723 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1724
a0540757
PH
1725PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1726
944e9e9c 1727
478be7b0
SC
1728Exim version 4.63
1729-----------------
1730
1731SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1732 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1733
1734SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1735 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1736 there is data to show.
1737 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1738
1739SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1740 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1741
2b965a65
TF
1742TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1743 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1744
45b91596
PH
1745TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1746 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1747
c59f5781
TF
1748TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1749 submissions from trusted users.
1750
90fc3069
TF
1751TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1752 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1753
6083aca0
TF
1754TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1755 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1756 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1757 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1758 there is now a framework to start from.
1759
765b530f
PH
1760PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1761 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1762 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1763
4e167a8c
PH
1764PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1765
4608d683
PH
1766PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1767
b8dc3e4a
PH
1768PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1769
5418e93b
PH
1770PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1771 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1772 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1773
b4a9bda2
PH
1774PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1775 libradius.
1776
45b91596
PH
1777PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1778 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1779 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1780
5547e2c5
PH
1781PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1782 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1783 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1784 its arguments.
1785
dbcef0ea
PH
1786PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1787 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1788 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1789 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1790 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1791
25257489
PH
1792PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1793 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1794
c816d124
PH
1795PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1796
a9ccd69a
PH
1797PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1798 operations in malware.c.
1799
75fa1910
PH
1800PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1801 signatures.
1802
a7d7aa58
PH
1803PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1804 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1805 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1806 all.
1807
42119b09
PH
1808PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1809 statements to "add_header".
1810
41609df5
PH
1811PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1812 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1813
a5bd321b
PH
1814PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1815 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1816 latter.
1817
e85a7ad5 1818PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1819 so that it is now:
1820
e85a7ad5
PH
1821 ${if or { \
1822 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1823 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1824 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1825 }{no}{yes}}
1826
e85a7ad5
PH
1827 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1828 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1829
d8fe1c03
PH
1830PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1831 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1832
16282d2b
PH
1833PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1834 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1835 any possible encoding problems.
1836
35d40a98
PH
1837PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1838 but not after initializing Perl.
1839
034d99ab
PH
1840PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1841 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1842 apparently, which is not desirable.
1843
6ec97b1b
PH
1844PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1845 queries.
1846
e22ca4ac
JJ
1847JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1848 --not options
1849
1850JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1851
33d73e3b
PH
1852PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1853 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1854 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1855 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1856
9ecb03f3
PH
1857PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1858 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1859 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1860
084efe8d
PH
1861PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1862 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1863 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1864 0.12.
1865
366fc9f0
PH
1866PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1867 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1868 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1869 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1870 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1871
c59f5781 1872
c887c79e
TF
1873Exim version 4.62
1874-----------------
1875
1876TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1877 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1878
1cce3af8
PH
1879PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1880 patch).
1881
afb3eaaf
PH
1882PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1883 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1884 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1885 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1886 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1887 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1888 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1889 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1890 451 error is used.
1891
e173618b
PH
1892PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1893
dd16e114
PH
1894PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1895 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1896 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1897
f7fd3850
PH
1898PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1899 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1900 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1901 odd errors.
1902
d87df92c
PH
1903PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1904 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1905
7e9f683d
PH
1906PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1907 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1908 option (which defaults to 0600).
1909
bfad5236
PH
1910PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1911
01c490df
PH
1912PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1913 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1914 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1915 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1916 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1917 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1918 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1919
d6629cdc
PH
1920PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1921
1cce3af8 1922
214e2000
PH
1923Exim version 4.61
1924-----------------
1925
1926PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1927 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1928 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1929 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1930 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1931 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1932 addresses as local.
1933
f9daeae0
PH
1934PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1935 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1936
7e66e54d
PH
1937PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1938
c8ea1597
PH
1939PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1940 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1941 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1942 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1943 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1944 grumble.
1945
911f6fde
PH
1946PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1947 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1948
47ca6d6c
PH
1949PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1950 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1951 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1952 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1953 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1954
ed0e9820
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1955PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1956 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1957 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1958 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1959
eff37e47
PH
1960PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1961 be the same on different OS.
1962
1921d2ea
PH
1963PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1964 testing.
1965
b3f69ca8
JJ
1966JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1967 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1968
1969JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1970 in 4.61-PH/06
1971
424a1c63
PH
1972PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1973 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1974 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1975 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1976 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1977 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1978 bounce message.
1979
7a100415
PH
1980PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1981 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1982 when Exim was called.
1983
19b9dc85
PH
1984PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1985 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1986
309bd837
PH
1987PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1988 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1989 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1990 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1991
59e82a2a
PH
1992PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1993 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1994 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1995 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1996 changes:
1997
1998 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1999 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2000 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2001
2002 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2003 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2004 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2005
9edc04ce
PH
2006PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2007 feature).
2008
1349e1e5
PH
2009PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2010 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2011 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2012 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2013 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2014 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2015 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2016 values from the SRV records were lost.
2017
ea49d0e1
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2018PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2019 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2020 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2021
064a94c9
PH
2022PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2023 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2024 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2025
727071f8
PH
2026PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2027 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2028 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2029 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2030 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2031 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2032 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2033 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2034 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2035 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2036
f78eb7c6
PH
2037PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2038 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2039 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2040
21c28500
PH
2041PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2042 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2043
2044PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2045 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2046 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2047 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2048 is given.
2049
1688f43b
PH
2050PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2051 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2052 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2053
2054PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2055 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2056 PH/23 above applies.
2057
9675b384
PH
2058PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2059 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2060 (for which there is an explicit test).
2061
6a3f1455
PH
2062PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2063
dac79d3e
PH
2064PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2065 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2066 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2067 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2068 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2069
5977a0b3
PH
2070PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2071 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2072 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2073 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2074
c91535f3
PH
2075PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2076 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2077 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2078
0d46a8c8
PH
2079PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2080
278c6e6c
PH
2081PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2082
2cbb4081
PH
2083PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2084 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2085 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2086
3eef829e
PH
2087PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2088 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2089 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2090 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2091 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2092
1ab95fa6
PH
2093PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2094 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2095 the message gets confusing).
2096
230205fc
PH
2097PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2098 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2099 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2100 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2101
75e0e026
PH
2102PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2103 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2104 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2105 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2106 same order.
2107
2108PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2109 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2110 the different processes.
2111
145396a6
PH
2112PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2113
3cd34f13
PH
2114PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2115
11121d3d
JJ
2116JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2117 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2118
2119JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2120 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2121
2122JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2123 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2124 messages matching specified criteria.
2125
8def5aaf
PH
2126PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2127
929ba01c
PH
2128PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2129 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2130
2632889e
PH
2131PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2132 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2133 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2134 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2135 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2136 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2137 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2138 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2139 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2140 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2141
944a9c55
PH
2142PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2143 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2144 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2145
4a23603b
PH
2146PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2147
4730f942
PH
2148PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2149 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2150 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2151 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2152 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2153 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2154 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2155 the variable.
2156
30dba1e6
PH
2157PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2158 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2159
382afc6b
PH
2160PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2161
a86229cf
PH
2162PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2163
50c99ba6
PH
2164PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2165
d35e429d
PH
2166PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2167 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2168 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2169 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2170 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2171 size of the count of files.
2172
f90d018c
PH
2173PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2174
75def545
PH
2175PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2176 used in LMTP mode:
2177
2178 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2179 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2180 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2181 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2182
2183 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2184 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2185 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2186
2187PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2188 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2189 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2190 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2191 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2192
c46782ef
PH
2193PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2194 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2195
71fafd95
PH
2196PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2197 will now be deprecated.
2198
2c5db4fd
PH
2199PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2200
9cf6b11a
JJ
2201JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2202 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2203 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2204
2205JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2206 with very large, slow to parse queues
2207
2208JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2209
2210JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2211
898d150f
PH
2212PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2213 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2214 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2215 SMTP output lines.
2216
46218253
PH
2217PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2218 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2219 Sieve code now uses this.
2220
e97957bc
PH
2221PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2222 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2223
81e509d7
PH
2224PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2225 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2226
3d240ff7
PH
2227PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2228
b37c4101
PH
2229PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2230 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2231 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2232 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2233 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2234
79378e0f
PH
2235PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2236 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2237 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2238 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2239
e49c7bb4
PH
2240PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2241
d114ec46
PH
2242PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2243
f3d7df6c
PH
2244PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2245 is preferred over IPv4.
2246
715ab376
PH
2247PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2248 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2249 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2250 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2251 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2252 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2253 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2254
6b31b150
PH
2255PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2256 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2257 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2258
2259PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2260
d515a917
PH
2261PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2262 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2263 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2264 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2265 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2266 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2267 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2268 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2269 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2270 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2271 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2272
9b8fadde
PH
2273PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2274 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2275 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2276
214e2000 2277
5de37277
PH
2278Exim version 4.60
2279-----------------
2280
cc38ddbf
PH
2281PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2282
2283 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2284 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2285
2286 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2287 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2288 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2289
72fdd6ae
PH
2290PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2291
2292 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2293 not a single digit.
2294
2295 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2296 string.
2297
2298 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2299 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2300 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2301 silly things.
2302
2303 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2304 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2305
2306 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2307 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2308
cb741023
PH
2309PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2310 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2311 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2312
f174f16e
PH
2313PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2314 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2315
c25242d7
PH
2316PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2317 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2318
2319 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2320
2321 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2322 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2323 this:
2324
2325 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2326
82c19f95
PH
2327PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2328 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2329 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2330 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2331 identical. For example:
2332
2333 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2334
2335 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2336 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2337 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2338
d7ffbc12
PH
2339PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2340 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2341 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2342 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2343
9f526266
PH
2344PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2345 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2346 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2347 message.
2348
87fcc8b9
PH
2349PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2350
2351 o fixes some comments
2352 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2353 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2354 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2355 and documents the missing references header update
2356
2357 and most important:
2358
2359 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2360 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2361 result)
2362
456682f5
PH
2363PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2364 Electronic Mail") by including:
2365
2366 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2367
2368 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2369 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2370 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2371 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2372 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2373
2374 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2375
2376 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2377
2378 The auto-replied keyword:
2379
2380 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2381 message by an automatic process,
2382
2383 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2384
2385 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2386 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2387
2388 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2389 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2390 other messages.
2391
3e46c1aa
PH
2392PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2393 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2394
49826d12
PH
2395PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2396
eba0c039
PH
2397PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2398 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2399 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2400
a0d6ba8a
PH
2401PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2402 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2403 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2404
f0917727
PH
2405PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2406 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2407 and treats the condition as false.
2408
096fee00
PH
2409PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2410
024bd3c2
PH
2411PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2412 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2413 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2414 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2415 not changing the active code.
2416
2417 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2418 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2419
2420 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2421 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2422
df199fec
PH
2423PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2424 (Bugzilla #53).
2425
d27f1df3
PH
2426PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2427 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2428 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2429 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2430 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2431 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2432 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2433 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2434 the text comparison.
2435
96776534
PH
2436PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2437 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2438 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2439 The same fix has been applied.
2440
5de37277 2441
9a799bc0
PH
2442Exim version 4.54
2443-----------------
2444
2445PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2446 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2447 It now does.
2448
99a4b039
PH
2449PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2450 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2451
2452PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2453
4b233853
PH
2454PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2455 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2456 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2457 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2458 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2459
8857ccfd
PH
2460TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2461 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2462 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2463 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2464 or /domain=).
2465
433a2980
PH
2466PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2467 testing suite.
2468
3e46c1aa 2469
9a799bc0 2470
e3a311ba
TK
2471Exim version 4.53
2472-----------------
2473
2474TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2475 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2476
13b685f9
PH
2477PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2478
395ff96d
PH
2479PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2480
5b68f6e4
PH
2481PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2482 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2483 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2484
1ab52c69
PH
2485PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2486 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2487 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2488
b07e6aa3
PH
2489PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2490 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2491 operating systems.
2492
254e032f
PH
2493PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2494 ${stat: expansion item.
2495
3af76a81
PH
2496PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2497 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2498
2548ba04
PH
2499PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2500 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2501 file for comments.
2502
b6c6011d
PH
2503PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2504
cf39cf57
PH
2505PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2506 setting.
2507
f1513293
PH
2508PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2509 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2510
727549a4
PH
2511TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2512
af46795e
PH
2513PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2514 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2515 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2516 the end of the subprocess.
2517
d7b47fd0
PH
2518PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2519 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2520 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2521 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2522 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2523
ee744174
JJ
2524JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2525
b582ab87
PH
2526TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2527
41a13e0a
PH
2528PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2529 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2530
f625cc5a
PH
2531PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2532
2533PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2534
21f7af35
PH
2535PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2536 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2537 HP-UX compiler.
2538
31480e42
PH
2539PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2540
2d280592
PH
2541PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2542 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2543 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2544
7cd1141b
PH
2545PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2546 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2547
2548PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2549 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2550
750af86e
PH
2551PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2552 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2553
2554 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2555 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2556
2557 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2558 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2559 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2560 contributed by a Radius user.
2561
2562PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2563 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2564
4304270b
TK
2565TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2566 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2567
750af86e
PH
2568PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2569 available.
2570
64ffc24f
PH
2571PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2572 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2573 received.
2574
5dd9625b
PH
2575PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2576 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2577 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2578 header lines when this was not necessary.
2579
5591031b
PH
2580PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2581
ba18e66a
PH
2582PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2583 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2584 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2585 exists".
2586
9cec981f
PH
2587PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2588 -bV or -d is used.
2589
aa2b5c79
PH
2590PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2591 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2592 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2593 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2594
48a53b7f
PH
2595PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2596
1c59d63b
PH
2597PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2598
671012da
TK
2599TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2600
1509d3a8
PH
2601PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2602
2603PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2604 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2605 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2606 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2607 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2608 settings.
2609
2610PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2611
2fe1a124
PH
2612PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2613 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2614 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2615 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2616 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2617 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2618 which is clearly wrong.
2619
8800895a
PH
2620PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2621
ccfdb010
PH
2622PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2623 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2624 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2625 subsequently added.
2626
1130bfb0
PH
2627PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2628 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2629
ebcb507f
PH
2630PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2631
c35e155c
PH
2632PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2633 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2634
95d1f782
PH
2635PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2636 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2637
fd6de02e
PH
2638PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2639 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2640
58de37c5
PH
2641PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2642 recipients, not senders.
2643
261cf466
TF
2644TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2645 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2646
3ee512ff
PH
2647PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2648
e08c430f
PH
2649PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2650
bef5a11f
PH
2651PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2652 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2653 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2654 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2655
7546de58
TF
2656TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2657
e5d5a95f
TF
2658TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2659 clock is set back in time.
2660
2e88a017
TF
2661TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2662 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2663
a5f65aa4
TF
2664TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2665 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2666
e7726cbf
PH
2667PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2668 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2669 (see PH/47 above).
2670
a7fdad5b
TF
2671TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2672 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2673 header rewrites.
2674
6af56900
PH
2675PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2676 type ("H").
2677
0925ede6
PH
2678PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2679
66afa403
TF
2680TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2681 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2682 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2683
0154e85a
TF
2684TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2685 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2686 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2687 helo verification defer as a failure.
2688
16f12c76
PH
2689PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2690 actual error message.
2691
bbe902f0 2692
e5a9dba6
PH
2693Exim version 4.52
2694-----------------
2695
2696TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2697
22c3b60b
PH
2698PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2699 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2700 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2701 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2702
06a9b4b5
PH
2703TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2704
c1ac6996
PH
2705PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2706 can still be requested.
2707
9c7a242c
PH
2708PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2709 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2710 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2711 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2712
87ba3f5f
PH
2713TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2714 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2715 circumstances, but probably never did.
2716
2717PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2718 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2719 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2720 in the header line.
2721
29aba418
TF
2722TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2723
fe0dab11
TF
2724TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2725 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2726
11d337a4
TK
2727TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2728
2729TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2730
415c8f3b
PH
2731PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2732 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2733 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2734 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2735 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2736 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2737
958541e9
PH
2738PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2739 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2740 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2741 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2742 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2743 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2744
c206415f
TK
2745TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2746 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2747
2a4be8f9
PH
2748PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2749 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2750
1cba11c5
SC
2751SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2752 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2753
2754SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2755
2756SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2757
2758SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2759
2760SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2761
2762SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2763
2764SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2765
1005d00e
TK
2766TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2767
2768TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2769 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2770 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2771
2772TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2773 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2774 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2775 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2776
9b4768fa
PH
2777PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2778 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2779 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2780
2781PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2782 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2783 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2784 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2785
0d7eb84a
PH
2786PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2787 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2788 to be made).
2789
2790PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2791 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2792 should work with maildirs and everything.
2793
40727bee
TK
2794TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2795 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2796
554d2369
TF
2797TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2798 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2799
1f922db1
PH
2800PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2801 function for BDB 4.3.
2802
ef213c3b
PH
2803PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2804
8ac170f3
PH
2805PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2806 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2807 involved.
2808
b1c749bb
PH
2809PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2810 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2811 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2812 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2813 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2814 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2815
4aac9b49
PH
2816PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2817 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2818 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2819 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2820 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2821 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2822 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2823 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2824
294520c8
TK
2825TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2826 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2827 details.
2828
5bd022fe
PH
2829PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2830 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2831
90e9ce59
PH
2832PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2833 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2834 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2835 test. It is now used for both.
2836
5ea81592
PH
2837PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2838 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2839 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2840 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2841 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2842 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2843
c6c2dc1d
PH
2844PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2845 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2846 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2847 string_vformat().
2848
fffffe4c
PH
2849PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2850 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2851 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2852
9a26b6b2
PH
2853PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2854 experimental DomainKeys support:
2855
2856 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2857 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2858 the control was given.
2859
2860 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2861
4aee0225
PH
2862PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2863
32d668a5
PH
2864PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2865
8187c3f3
PH
2866PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2867 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2868 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2869 db.h files).
2870
ff790e47 2871PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2872 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2873 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2874 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2875 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2876 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2877 course.
ff790e47 2878
5417f6d1
PH
2879PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2880 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2881 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2882 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2883 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2884 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2885
59cf8544
PH
2886PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2887 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2888 do -d+all out of habit.
2889
e7ad8a65
PH
2890PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2891 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2892 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2893
ade42478
PH
2894PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2895 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2896 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2897 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2898 record types that Exim uses.
2899
182ad5cf
PH
2900PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2901 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2902 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2903 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2904 non-existent file that was broken.
2905
b0d9fc80
TK
2906TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2907 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2908
2909TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2910 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2911 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2912
2913TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2914
47c7a64a
PH
2915PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2916 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2917 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2918 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2919 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2920 same time.
2921
a388bce4
SC
2922SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2923 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2924 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2925 at a slight CPU cost.
2926
2927SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2928 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2929
2930SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2931 by Marc Sherman.
2932
0793e4ed
SC
2933SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2934
c58b88df
PH
2935PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2936 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2937
e7ad8a65 2938
7982096b
PH
2939Exim version 4.51
2940-----------------
2941
1a46a8c5
PH
2942TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2943 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2944
2f079f46 2945TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2946
2947TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2948
2949PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2950 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2951
2952PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2953 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2954 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2955 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2956 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2957 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2958 file.
2959
2960PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2961 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2962 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2963 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2964 these two options.
2965
2966PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2967 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2968 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2969 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2970 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2971 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2972 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2973 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2974
2975PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2976 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2977
2978PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2979 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2980 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2981 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2982 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2983 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2984
2985PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2986 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2987 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2988 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2989
2990PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2991 Finch).
2992
2993PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2994 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2995
49c2d5ea
PH
2996PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2997 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2998 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2999 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3000 message.
49c2d5ea 3001
bf759a8b
PH
3002PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3003
83364d30
PH
3004PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3005 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3006
7999bbd7
PH
3007PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3008 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3009 to what was transported.)
3010
7dbf77c9
PH
3011TF/01 Added $received_time.
3012
74e0617f
PH
3013PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3014 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3015 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3016 spamd_address settings.
3017
2f079f46
PH
3018PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3019 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3020 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3021 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3022 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3023
8c841523
PH
3024PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3025
7766a4f0
PH
3026PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3027 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3028 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3029 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3030 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3031
8b417f2c
PH
3032PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3033 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3034
901f42cb
PH
3035PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3036 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3037 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3038 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3039 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3040 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3041 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3042 for failure.
3043
f9b9210e
PH
3044PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3045 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3046 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3047 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3048 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3049 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3050 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3051 "input=".
3052
54cdb463
PH
3053PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3054
cf00dad6
PH
3055PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3056 driver and ACL definitions.
3057
acb1b346
PH
3058PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3059 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3060
c5ddb310
PH
3061PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3062 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3063 understands it better than I do:
3064
3065 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3066 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3067
3068 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3069 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3070 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3071 => three warnings about OTP not working
3072 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3073
3074 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3075 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3076 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3077 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3078 for each call.)
3079 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3080 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3081
3082 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3083 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3084 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3085
31619da6
PH
3086PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3087 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3088 specified.
3089
bebaf0fc
PH
3090PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3091 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3092 "Linux".
3093
475fe28a
PH
3094PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3095 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3096 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3097
3098 warn !verify = sender
3099 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3100
3101 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3102 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3103
7e8bec7a
PH
3104PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3105
3106 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3107 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3108
3109 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3110 nomenclature these days.)
3111
e4a89c47
PH
3112PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3113 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3114
5ca2a9a1
PH
3115PH/30 In these circumstances:
3116 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3117 . First host does not offer TLS;
3118 . First host accepts first address;
3119 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3120 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3121 . Second host accepts second address.
3122 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3123 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3124 address.
7e8bec7a 3125
c688b954
PH
3126PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3127 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3128 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3129 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3130 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3131
fed77020
PH
3132PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3133 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3134
7fe1560f
PH
3135PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3136 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3137
ebb6e6d5
PH
3138PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3139 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3140 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3141
9c4e8f60
PH
3142PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3143 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3144 overlooked.
3145
3146PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3147
d7174846
PH
3148PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3149 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3150 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3151 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3152 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3153 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3154 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3155
3156 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3157 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3158 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3159 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3160 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3161
3162 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3163 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3164 routed further.
3165
cfe75fc3
PH
3166PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3167 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3168 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3169 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3170 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3171 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3172
be22d70e
PH
3173PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3174
0612b098
PH
3175PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3176 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3177 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3178 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3179 printable escape sequences.
3180
2e0c1448
PH
3181PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3182 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3183 body only.
3184
447d236c
PH
3185PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3186 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3187 are as follows:
3188
3189 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3190 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3191 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3192 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3193 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3194
3195 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3196 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3197 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3198
d20976dc
PH
3199PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3200
f656d135
PH
3201PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3202 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3203 play with."
3204
2e2a30b4
PH
3205PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3206 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3207 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3208 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3209 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3210 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3211 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3212 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3213 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3214 the log output.
3215
9176e9f0
PH
3216PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3217 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3218 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3219 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3220 "make".
3221
7982096b 3222
bbe902f0
PH
3223A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3224----------------------------------------
3225
3226Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3227changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3228needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3229in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3230that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3231release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3232from 4.43.
3233
3234I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
32354.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3236those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3237historical information.
3238
3239
f7b63901 3240Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3241-----------------
3242
5fe762f6
PH
3243 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3244
139059f6 3245 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3246 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3247
7086e875
PH
3248 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3249 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3250 place.
3251
35af9f61
PH
3252 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3253 filter fails to execute.
3254
b668c215
PH
3255 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3256 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3257 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3258 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3259 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3260
a494b1e1
PH
3261 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3262
3263 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3264 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3265 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3266 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3267
c5fcb476
PH
3268 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3269 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3270 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3271 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3272 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3273
69358f02
PH
3274 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3275
5be20824
PH
327610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3277
eb2c0248
PH
327811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3279 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3280 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3281 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3282
2a3eea10
PH
328312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3284 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3285 sender verification.
3286
328713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3288 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3289
23c7ff99
PH
329014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3291
4deaf07d
PH
329215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3293 connection timeout.
3294
926e1192
PH
329516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3296 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3297
650edc6f
PH
329817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3299 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3300
2c7db3f5
PH
330118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3302 information about exactly what failed.
3303
3d235903
PH
330419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3305
7c7ad977
PH
330620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3307 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3308 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3309
981756db
PH
331021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3311 It is now set to "smtps".
3312
d4eb88df
PH
331322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3314 ignore_target_hosts.
3315
331623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3317 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3318 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3319 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3320 "[x.x.x.x]".
3321
7d468ab8
PH
332224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3323 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3324 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3325
332625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3327 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3328 wake it up if nothing else does.
3329
62c0818f
PH
333026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3331 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3332 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3333 end up negative.
3334
26034054
PH
333527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3336 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3337
af66f652
PH
333828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3339
90af77f4
PH
334029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3341 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3342 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3343 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3344 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3345 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3346 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3347 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3348
d8ef3577
PH
334930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3350 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3351 than one IP address.
3352
5cb8cbc6
PH
335331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3354 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3355 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3356 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3357
14702f5b
PH
335832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3359 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3360 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3361 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3362 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3363 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3364
063b1e99
PH
336533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3366 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3367 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3368 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3369
652e1b65
PH
337034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3371 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3372 respected.
3373
6f0c9a4f
PH
337435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3375 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3376 $sender_host_address.
3377
33397d19
PH
337836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3379 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3380 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3381 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3382 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3383 very small.
3384
7bb56e1f
PH
338537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3386
3387 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3388 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3389
ea3bc19b
PH
3390 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3391 just the host names, not the priorities.
3392
3393 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3394 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3395 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3396
ea3bc19b 3397 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3398 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3399
0bcb2a0e
PH
340038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3401 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3402 domain.
3403
2ac0e484
PH
340439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3405
4e1fde53
PH
340640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3407 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3408
de365ded
PH
340941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3410 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3411 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3412
f05da2e8
PH
341342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3414
d6453af2
PH
341543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3416
f7b63901
PH
341744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3418
341945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3420 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3421 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3422 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3423 because the tests only now provoked it.
3424
a444213a
PH
342546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3426 (this can affect the format of dates).
3427
0ec020ea
PH
342847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3429 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3430 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3431 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3432
b1206957
PH
343348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3434
343549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3436 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3437 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3438 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3439
26dd5a95
PH
344050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3441 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3442 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3443
343b2385
PH
344451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3445 autoreply.
3446
1c5466b9
PH
344752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3448 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3449 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3450 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3451 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3452 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3453 is going on).
3454
55ee9ee3
PH
345553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3456 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3457 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3458 the line.
3459
d38f8232
PH
346054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3461 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3462 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3463
3464 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3465 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3466 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3467 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3468 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3469 so I produce this patch..."
3470
3295e65b
PH
3471 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3472 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3473 is not defined.
3474
7102e136
PH
347555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3476 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3477 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3478 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3479 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3480
3ca0ba97
PH
348156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3482
c2bcbe20
PH
348357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3484 long debug lines gets shown.
3485
18ce445d
PH
348658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3487 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3488
1f5b4c3d
PH
348959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3490
3491 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3492 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3493 of $primary_hostname.
3494
b975ba52
PH
349560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3496 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3497 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3498 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3499 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3500 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3501 by change 4.50/55 above.
3502
3503 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3504 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3505 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3506 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3507 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3508 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3509 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3510
351161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3512 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3513 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3514 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3515
17ffcae7
PH
351662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3517 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3518
d95f9fdb
PH
351963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3520 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3521 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3522 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3523 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3524
86b8287f
PH
352564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3526 This has been fixed.
3527
60dc5e56
PH
352865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3529 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3530 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3531 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3532 the caching.)
3533
533244af
PH
353466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3535
a5a28604
PH
353667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3537 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3538 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3539 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3540
7e634d24
PH
354168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3542 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3543
3e11c26b
PH
354469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3545 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3546 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3547
6729cf78
PH
354870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3549 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3550 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3551 message there.
3552
00f00ca5
PH
355371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3554 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3555 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3556
c9bdd01c
PH
355772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3558 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3559 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3560 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3561
d43194df
PH
356273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3563 during host lookups.
3564
fe5b5d0b
PH
356574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3566 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3567
3568 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3569
76a2d7ba
PH
357075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3571 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3572 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3573 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3574 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3575 background.
3576
357776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3578 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3579
04f7d5b9
PH
358077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3581 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3582 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3583
bc60667e
PH
358478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3585
bb6e88ff
PH
358679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3587 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3588 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3589 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3590 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3591 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3592 process earlier.
3593
1e70f85b
PH
359480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3595 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3596 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3597 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3598 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3599
360081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3601 tables).
3602
4e01f9d6
PH
360382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3604
1ee1cef2
PH
360583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3606 "vacation" handling.
3607
6e2b4ccc
PH
360884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3609 OS variants using glibc.
3610
8e669ac1
PH
361185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3612
495ae4b0 3613
bbe902f0
PH
3614----------------------------------------------------
3615See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3616----------------------------------------------------
3617
3618
3619Exim version 4.44
3620-----------------
3621
3622 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3623 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3624 transport
3625
3626 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3627 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3628 place.
3629
3630 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3631 filter fails to execute.
3632
3633 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3634 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3635 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3636 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3637 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3638
3639 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3640 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3641 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3642 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3643
3644 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3645 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3646 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3647 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3648 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3649
3650 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3651
3652 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3653 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3654 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3655 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3656
3657 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3658 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3659 sender verification.
3660
366110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3662 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3663
366411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3665 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3666
366712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3668 ignore_target_hosts.
3669
367013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3671 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3672 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3673 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3674 "[x.x.x.x]".
3675
367614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3677 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3678 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3679
368015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3681 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3682 wake it up if nothing else does.
3683
368416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3685 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3686 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3687 end up negative.
3688
368917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3690 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3691
ea3a6f44 369218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3693
369419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3695 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3696 empty pattern.
3697
369820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3699 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3700 one IP address.
3701
ea3a6f44
NM
370221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3703 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3704 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3705 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3706 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3707 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3708
ea3a6f44
NM
370922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3710 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3711 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3712
371323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3714 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3715 $sender_host_address.
3716
371724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3718
ea3a6f44
NM
371925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3720 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3721 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3722
372326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3724 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3725
ea3a6f44
NM
372627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3727 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3728
ea3a6f44
NM
372928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3730 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3731 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3732 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3733
373429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3735 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3736 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3737
ea3a6f44
NM
373830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3739 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3740 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3741 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3742
ea3a6f44
NM
374331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3744 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3745 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3746
ea3a6f44
NM
374731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3748 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3749
ea3a6f44
NM
375032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3751 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3752 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3753 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3754 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3755 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3756 is going on).
bbe902f0 3757
ea3a6f44
NM
375833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3759 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3760 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3761 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3762 CAN-2005-0021
3763
ea3a6f44
NM
376434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3765 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3766 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3767 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3768 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3769 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3770 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3771
3772 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3773 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3774 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3775 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3776 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3777 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3778 CAN-2005-0021
3779
ea3a6f44
NM
378035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3781 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3782 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3783 CAN-2005-0022
3784
ea3a6f44
NM
378536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3786 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3787 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3788 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3789 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3790
ea3a6f44
NM
379137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3792 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3793 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3794 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3795 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3796
ea3a6f44
NM
379738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3798 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3799 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3800 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3801 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3802
3803
495ae4b0
PH
3804Exim version 4.43
3805-----------------
3806
3807 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3808 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3809 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3810 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3811 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3812 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3813 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3814
3815 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3816 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3817 the delivery.
3818
3819 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3820
3821 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3822
3823 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3824 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3825 to local_scan().
3826
3827 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3828 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3829 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3830 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3831 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3832
3833 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3834 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3835
3836 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3837
3838 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3839
384010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3841 header_sender only.
3842
384311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3844 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3845
384612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3847 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3848 affecting debugging statements).
3849
385013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3851
385214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3853 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3854 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3855 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3856 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3857 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3858 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3859 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3860 after the received time, and all would be well.
3861
386215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3863 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3864 condition in an expansion string.
3865
386616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3867
386817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3869 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3870 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3871 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3872 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3873 job under whatever limits there are.
3874
387518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3876
387719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3878 space).
3879
388020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3881 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3882 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3883 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3884 return path is set.
3885
388621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3887 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3888 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3889 binary data in such strings.
3890
389122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3892
389323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3894 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3895 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3896 failure, which is pointless.
3897
389824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3899
390025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3901
390226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3903 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3904 Sender: header lines.
3905
390627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3907 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3908 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3909
391028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3911 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3912 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3913 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3914 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3915 happens.
3916
391729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3918 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3919 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3920 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3921 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3922
392330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3924 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3925 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3926 1024.
3927
392831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3929 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3930
393132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3932 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3933
393433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3935
393632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3937
393833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3939
394034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3941 syntax error.
3942
394335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3944
394536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3946
394737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3948 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3949 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3950 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3951
395238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3953 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3954
3955
3956Exim version 4.42
3957-----------------
3958
3959 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3960 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3961 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3962 it was not quoted.
3963 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3964 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3965 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3966 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3967 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3968 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3969
3970 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3971 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3972 verification failure".
3973
3974 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3975 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3976 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3977 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3978
3979 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3980 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3981 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3982 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3983 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3984 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3985 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3986 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3987 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3988 treated as a timeout.
3989
3990 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3991 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3992 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3993 not set for Exim filters).
3994
3995 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3996 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3997 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3998
3999 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4000
4001 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4002 try to make them clearer.
4003
4004 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4005 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4006
4007 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4008
4009 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4010
401110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4012 only the Cygwin environment.
4013
401411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4015 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4016 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4017 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4018 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4019
402012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4021 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4022 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4023 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4024 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4025 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4026 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4027
402813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4029 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4030
403114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4032
4033 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4034 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4035 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4036
4037 To: susanne@some.where
4038
4039 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4040 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4041 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4042 of addresses in From: header lines).
4043
4044 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4045 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4046 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4047
4048 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4049 treated as non-personal.
4050
4051 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4052 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4053
405415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4055
405616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4057
405817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4059 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4060 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4061
406218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4063 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4064
406519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4066 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4067 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4068 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4069 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4070 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4071
407220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4073 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4074 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4075 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4076 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4077 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4078 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4079 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4080
4081 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4082
408321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4084 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4085
408622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4087 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4088 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4089
409023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4091 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4092
409324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4094 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4095 rather than long int.
4096
409725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4098
409926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4100
4101
4102Exim version 4.41
4103-----------------
4104
4105 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4106 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4107 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4108 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4109 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4110 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4111
4112
4113Exim version 4.40
4114-----------------
4115
4116 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4117 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4118
4119 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4120 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4121 socklen_t is defined.
4122
4123 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4124 always exist.
4125
4126 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4127 configured.
4128
4129 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4130 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4131 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4132 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4133 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4134
4135 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4136 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4137 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4138 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4139
4140 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4141 of flapping under certain conditions.
4142
4143 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4144 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4145 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4146
4147 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4148
414910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4150
415111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4152 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4153 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4154 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4155
415612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4157 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4158 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4159 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4160 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4161 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4162 preserved with the message after it was received.
4163
416413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4165 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4166 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4167 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4168 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4169 test suite worked just fine.
4170
417114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4172 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4173 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4174
417515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4176 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4177 string.
4178
417916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4180 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4181 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4182 does not fully solve it.
4183
418417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4185 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4186 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4187 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4188 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4189
419018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4191 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4192 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4193
419419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4195 string, for example:
4196
4197 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4198
4199 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4200 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4201 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4202 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4203 the routers could not see them.
4204
420520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4206 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4207
420821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4209 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4210 output).
4211
421222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4213 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4214 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4215 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4216 that needed quoting.
4217
421823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4219 was not being matched caselessly.
4220
422124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4222 backslashes.
4223
422425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4225 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4226 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4227 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4228 when use_sender is false.
4229
423026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4231
423227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4233
423428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4235
423629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4237 the configuration file.
4238
423930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4240 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4241
424231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4243
424432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4245 bytes in the message body.
4246
424733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4248 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4249 delivery.
4250
425134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4252
425335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4254
425536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4256 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4257 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4258 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4259 another IP address.
4260
4261
4262Exim version 4.34
4263-----------------
4264
4265 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4266 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4267
4268 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4269 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4270 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4271 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4272 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4273
4274 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4275 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4276
4277 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4278 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4279 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4280
4281 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4282 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4283 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4284
4285 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4286 for routers.
4287
4288 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4289 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4290 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4291 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4292 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4293 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4294 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4295
4296
4297Exim version 4.33
4298-----------------
4299
4300 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4301 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4302 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4303 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4304 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4305 default (and expected) setting.
4306
4307 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4308 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4309 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4310 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4311
4312 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4313 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4314
4315 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4316 in domain lists.
4317
4318 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4319 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4320 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4321 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4322 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4323 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4324
4325 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4326 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4327 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4328
4329 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4330 part (NOT match_host).
4331
4332 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4333
4334 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4335 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4336 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4337 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4338 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4339 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4340 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4341 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4342 the same named file.
4343
434410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4345 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4346 when Exim is built.
4347
434811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4349 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4350 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4351 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4352 a host name.
4353
435412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4355 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4356 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4357
435813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4359
436014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4361
436215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4363
436416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4365 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4366
436717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4368 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4369 before starting the TLS session.
4370
437118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4372
437319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4374 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4375
437620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4377 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4378 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4379 colon in the middle).
4380
4381
4382Exim version 4.32
4383-----------------
4384
4385 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4386 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4387 multiple configurations are in use.
4388
4389 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4390 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4391 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4392 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4393 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4394 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4395
4396 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4397 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4398
4399 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4400 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4401 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4402
4403 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4404 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4405 occurs.
4406
4407 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4408 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4409
4410 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4411
4412 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4413 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4414
4415 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4416
4417 -prval:sval
4418
4419 is equivalent to
4420
4421 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4422
4423 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4424 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4425 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4426 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4427 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4428
442910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4430 Exim's behaviour:
4431
4432 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4433 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4434 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4435 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4436 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4437 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4438
4439 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4440 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4441 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4442 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4443 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4444 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4445 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4446 string.
4447
4448 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4449 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4450 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4451 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4452 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4453
445411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4455
445612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4457 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4458 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4459
446013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4461
446214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4463 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4464 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4465 information.
4466
446715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4468 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4469
447016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4471 Three changes have been made:
4472
4473 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4474 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4475 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4476 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4477 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4478
4479 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4480 been restored.
4481
4482 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4483 the modified behaviour.
4484
4485
4486Exim version 4.31
4487-----------------
4488
4489 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4490 Larry Rosenman.
4491
4492 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4493 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4494
4495 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4496 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4497 try to track down a specific problem.
4498
4499 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4500 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4501 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4502
4503 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4504 warning.
4505
4506 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4507 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4508 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4509 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4510 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4511 some earlier ones do not.
4512
4513 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4514
4515 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4516 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4517 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4518 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4519 address literals are enabled, of course).
4520
4521 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4522
452310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4524 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4525 by a command such as
4526
4527 exim -f "" ...
4528
4529 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4530
453111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4532
453312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4534 remained set. It is now erased.
4535
453613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4537 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4538
453914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4540 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4541 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4542 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4543 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4544 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4545 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4546 appropriate error code.
4547
454815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4549 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4550 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4551 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4552 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4553 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4554
455516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4556 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4557 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4558
455917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4560 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4561 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4562 terminate the header.
4563
456418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4565 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4566 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4567
456819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4569 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4570 (4.30/29). In particular:
4571
4572 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4573 imposed.
4574
4575 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4576 to write a maildirsize file.
4577
4578 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4579 the transport, the new value overrides.
4580
4581 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4582 count.
4583
458420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4585 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4586 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4587 space or a tab.
4588
458921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4590 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4591 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4592 the fallback hosts.
4593
459422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4595 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4596 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4597
459823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4599 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4600 using a union.
4601
460224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4603 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4604 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4605
460625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4607
460826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4609
461027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4611
461228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4613 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4614 become corrupted.
4615
461629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4617 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4618 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4619 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4620 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4621 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4622 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4623 too great.
4624
462530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4626 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4627 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4628 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4629 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4630 incorrectly.
4631
463231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4633 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4634 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4635 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4636 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4637 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4638 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4639 cached value only when the same options are set.
4640
464132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4642
464333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4644 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4645 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4646 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4647 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4648
464934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4650 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4651 it is clearly obsolete.
4652
465335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4654 transport.
4655
465636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4657 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4658 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4659 times.
4660
466137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4662 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4663 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4664 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4665 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4666
466738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4668 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4669 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4670 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4671
467239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4673
4674 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4675
4676 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4677 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4678 2^31.
4679
468040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4681 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4682 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4683 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4684 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4685 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4686 $localpart_data.
4687
468841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4689 with the -f command-line option.
4690
469142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4692 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4693 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4694 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4695 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4696 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4697
469843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4699 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4700 line.
4701
470244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4703 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4704 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4705 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4706 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4707 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4708 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4709 buffer is too small.
4710
471145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4712 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4713
471446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4715 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4716 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4717 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4718 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4719 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4720 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4721 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4722 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4723
472447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4725 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4726 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4727
472848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4729 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4730 ACL").
4731
473249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4733 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4734 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4735 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4736 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4737
473850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4739 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4740 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4741 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4742 is set.
4743
474451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4745
474652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4747
474853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4749 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4750
475154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4752 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4753 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4754
475555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4756 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4757 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4758 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4759 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4760
476156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4762 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4763 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4764 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4765 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4766 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4767 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4768
476957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4770 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4771 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4772 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4773 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4774 the test of how many are available.
4775
477658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4777 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4778 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4779 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4780 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4781 new message is started.
4782
478359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4784 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4785
478660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4787 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4788
478961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4790 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4791 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4792 is no long logged.
4793
479462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4795 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4796 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4797 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4798 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4799 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4800 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4801
480263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4803 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4804 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4805 interpreted as octal.
4806
480764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4808 setting.
4809
481065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4811 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4812 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4813 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4814 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4815 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4816
481766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4818 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4819 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4820 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4821
4822 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4823 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4824 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4825 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4826
4827 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4828 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4829 is a bug fix.
4830
4831 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4832 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4833
483467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4835
483668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4837 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4838 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4839 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4840
484169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4842 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4843 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4844 supplied", which is not helpful.
4845
484670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4847 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4848 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4849
485071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4851 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4852 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4853 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4854 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4855 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4856 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4857 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4858
485972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4860 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4861 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4862 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4863 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4864
486573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4866 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4867 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4868 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4869 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4870 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4871
487274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4873 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4874 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4875
487675. Added write_rejectlog option.
4877
487876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4879 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4880 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4881 variables.
4882
488377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4884
488578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4886 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4887 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4888 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4889 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4890 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4891 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4892 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4893
489479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4895 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4896 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4897 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4898 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4899
490080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4901 Haardt.
4902
490381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4904 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4905 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4906 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4907 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4908 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4909 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4910 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4911 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4912
4913
4914Exim version 4.30
4915-----------------
4916
4917 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4918 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4919 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4920
4921 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4922 fixed.
4923
4924 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4925 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4926 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4927
4928 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4929 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4930 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4931 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4932 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4933 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4934
4935 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4936 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4937 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4938 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4939 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4940 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4941 the Exim test suite.
4942
4943 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4944 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4945 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4946 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4947
4948 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4949 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4950 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4951 specify it in this variable.
4952
4953 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4954 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4955 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4956 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4957
4958 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4959 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4960 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4961 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4962
4963 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4964 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4965 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4966 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4967 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4968
4969 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4970
497110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4972 they are logged.
4973
497411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4975 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4976 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4977 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4978 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4979
498012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4981 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4982
498313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4984 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4985 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4986 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4987 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4988
498914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4990 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4991
499215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4993 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4994 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4995
499616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4997 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4998
499917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5000 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5001
500218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5003 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5004 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5005
500619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5007 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5008
500920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5010 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5011 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5012 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5013
501421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5015
501622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5017 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5018 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5019 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5020
502123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5022
502324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5024 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5025
502625. Added .include_if_exists.
5027
502826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5029 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5030 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5031 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5032 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5033 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5034
503527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5036
503728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5038 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5039 this.
5040
504129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5042
504330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5044 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5045
5046 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5047 550 Sender verify failed
5048
5049 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5050 the final line of the response.
5051
505231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5053 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5054 all other user lookups.
5055
505632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5057 delivery time.
5058
505933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5060 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5061 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5062 result into an int without checking.
5063
506434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5065 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5066 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5067
506835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5069 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5070 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5071 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5072
507336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5074 correctly.
5075
507637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5077 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5078
507938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5080 to the empty sender.
5081
508239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5083 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5084 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5085 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5086 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5087 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5088 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5089 panic log.
5090
509140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5092 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5093 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5094 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5095 used.
5096
509741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5098 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5099
510042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5101 timestamps.
5102
510343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5104 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5105
510644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5107
510845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5109 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5110 logs.
5111
511246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5113 as soon as it is encountered.
5114
511547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5116
511748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5118 rewritten to "<>".
5119
512049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5121 recognizes a tab character.
5122
512350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5124 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5125 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5126 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5127
512851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5129
513052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5131 crash.
5132
513353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5134
513554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5136
513755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5138 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5139 2822.
5140
514156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5142 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5143 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5144 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5145 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5146
514757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5148 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5149
515058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5151 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5152 list (.included file names were always shown).
5153
515459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5155 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5156 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5157 root at that time.
5158
515960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5160 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5161
516261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5163
516462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5165
516663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5167
516864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5169 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5170 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5171 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5172 failures to open the logs.
5173
517465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5175 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5176 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5177 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5178 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5179 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5180 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5181
5182
5183Exim version 4.24
5184-----------------
5185
5186 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5187 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5188 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5189 change 4.23/1.
5190
5191 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5192 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5193 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5194
5195 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5196 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5197 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5198
5199 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5200 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5201 causing some misleading effects.
5202
5203 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5204 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5205 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5206
5207 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5208 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5209 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5210 queue-runner function directly.
5211
5212
5213Exim version 4.23
5214-----------------
5215
5216 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5217 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5218
5219 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5220 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5221 was always written to the default place.
5222
5223 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5224 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5225 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5226
5227 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5228
5229 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5230
5231 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5232 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5233 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5234
5235 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5236 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5237 must start.
5238
5239 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5240 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5241 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5242
5243 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5244 command line option is disabled.
5245
5246 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5247 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5248
5249 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5250
5251 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5252
5253 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5254 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5255
525610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5257
525811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5259 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5260 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5261 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5262 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5263 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5264
526512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5266 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5267 timeout.
5268
526913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5270 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5271
527214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5273 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5274
527515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5276 received was valid base64.
5277
527816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5279 name of the variable that was being set.
5280
528117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5282
528318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5284 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5285 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5286 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5287 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5288 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5289
529019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5291
529220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5293 nor realm was specified.
5294
529521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5296 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5297 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5298 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5299
530022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5301 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5302 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5303
530423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5305 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5306 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5307
530824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5309 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5310 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5311 some systems use these upper case variants.
5312
531325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5314 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5315 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5316 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5317
531826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5319
532027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5321 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5322
532328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5324 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5325 expansion variable.
5326
532729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5328
532930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5330 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5331 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5332 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5333
533431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5335 using it.
5336
533732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5338 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5339 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5340
534133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5342 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5343
534434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5345 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5346 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5347 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5348
534935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5350 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5351 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5352
535336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5354
535537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5356 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5357 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5358 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5359 aborted.
5360
536138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5362 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5363 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5364
536539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5366
536740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5368 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5369
537041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5371 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5372
537342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5374 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5375 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5376 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5377 when emails are that large.
5378
5379
5380
5381Exim version 4.22
5382-----------------
5383
5384 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5385 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5386
5387 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5388 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5389 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5390
5391 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5392 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5393 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5394
5395 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5396 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5397 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5398 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5399 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5400
5401 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5402 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5403 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5404 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5405 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5406 ever.
5407
5408 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5409 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5410 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5411 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5412 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5413 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5414 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5415 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5416 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5417 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5418 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5419 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5420 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5421 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5422
5423 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5424 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5425 parameterised it.
5426
5427 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5428 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5429 error should be diagnosed.
5430
5431 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5432 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5433 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5434 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5435 appeared instead of "NULL".
5436
543710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5438 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5439 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5440 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5441 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5442 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5443 proceeds).
5444
5445 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5446 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5447 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5448
5449
5450Exim version 4.21
5451-----------------
5452
5453 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5454 or receiver verification errors.
5455
5456 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5457 name.
5458
5459 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5460 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5461 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5462 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5463
5464 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5465 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5466 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5467 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5468 shouldn't happen again.
5469
5470 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5471 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5472 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5473
5474 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5475 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5476
5477 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5478
5479 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5480 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5481
5482 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5483 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5484 RFC.
5485
548610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5487 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5488 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5489
549011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5491 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5492 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5493 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5494
549512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5496 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5497 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5498 to define what should happen).
5499
550013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5501 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5502 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5503
550414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5505
550615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5507
550816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5509 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5510
551117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5512 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5513 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5514 structure in all cases.
5515
5516 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5517 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5518 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5519 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5520
552118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5522 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5523 domain name.
5524
552519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5526 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5527
552820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5529 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5530
553121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5532 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5533 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5534
553522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5536 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5537 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5538
553923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5540 the book and for uniformity.
5541
554224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5543
554425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5545 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5546 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5547 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5548 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5549 non-existent command as the problem.
5550
555126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5552 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5553 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5554
555527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5556
555728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5558 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5559 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5560
556129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5562 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5563 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5564 timestamps using strftime().
5565
556630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5567 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5568
556932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5570 transport-time rewrites.
5571
557233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5573 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5574 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5575 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5576
557734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5578 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5579
558035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5581 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5582 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5583 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5584 comma and a space.
5585
558636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5587 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5588 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5589 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5590 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5591 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5592 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5593
559437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5595 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5596 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5597 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5598 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5599
560038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5601 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5602 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5603 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5604 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5605 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5606 remaining text gets split now.
5607
560839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5609 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5610 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5611 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5612
561340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5614 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5615 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5616 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5617 $return_path.
5618
561941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5620 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5621 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5622 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5623 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5624 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5625 passed through if needed.
5626
562742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5628 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5629 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5630 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5631 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5632 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5633
563443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5635 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5636 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5637 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5638 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5639
564044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5641 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5642 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5643 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5644 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5645
564645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5647 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5648 noticed.
5649
565046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5651 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5652 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5653 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5654 mayhem of various kinds.
5655
565647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5657 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5658 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5659 the right test for positive values.
5660
566148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5662 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5663 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5664 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5665 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5666 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5667 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5668 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5669 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5670 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5671 envelope.
5672
567349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5674 module.
5675
567650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5677 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5678 forbidding it.
5679
568051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5681 the existing equality matching.
5682
568352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5684 dealing with inode numbers.
5685
568653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5687 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5688 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5689
569054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5691 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5692 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5693 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5694 local_scan().
5695
569655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5697 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5698 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5699 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5700 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5701 relay addresses has also been removed.
5702
570356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5704
570557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5706 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5707 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5708
570958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5710 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5711 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5712 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5713 processing applies to CR:
5714
5715 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5716 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5717
5718 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5719 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5720 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5721 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5722
572359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5724 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5725 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5726
572760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5728 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5729 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5730 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5731 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5732 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5733 arisen.
5734
573561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5736 program routers.
5737
573862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5739 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5740 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5741 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5742 adds:
5743
5744 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5745
5746 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5747
5748 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5749
575063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5751 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5752 not considered personal.
5753
575464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5755
575665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5757
575866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5759
576067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5761 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5762 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5763 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5764 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5765 header lines, and spool format errors.
5766
576768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5768 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5769 for more flexibility.
5770
577169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5772 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5773 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5774
577570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5776 Sabourenkov.
5777
577871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5779 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5780 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5781 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5782 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5783 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5784 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5785 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5786 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5787
578872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5789 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5790 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5791 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5792 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5793 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5794 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5795
579673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5797 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5798 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5799
580074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5801 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5802 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5803 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5804 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5805 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5806 instead of killing the process with assert().
5807
580875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5809 than Unicode encoding.
5810
581176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5812 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5813 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5814 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5815
581677. Added process_log_path.
5817
581878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5819 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5820
582179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5822 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5823
582480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5825 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5826 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5827
582881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5829 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5830 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5831 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5832 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5833 were applied:
5834
5835 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5836 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5837 as invalid.
5838
583982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5840 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5841 they will be used during message reception.
5842
5843
5844Exim version 4.20
5845-----------------
5846
5847The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5848
5849****