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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
10 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
11 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
12 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
13 these files.
14
15TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
16 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
17 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
18
19TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
20 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
21 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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23TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
24 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
25 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
26 in the field name.
27
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28PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
29 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
30 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
31 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
32 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
33 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
34 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
35 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
36 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
37 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
38 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
39
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40PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
41 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
42
43PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
44 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
45 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
46 ignores EPIPE as well.
47
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48PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
49 (quoted-printable decoding).
50
cc2ed8f7 51PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 52 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
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54PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
55
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56PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
57
58PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
59
38a0a95f 60PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 61 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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63JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
64 in 4.64-PH/09.
65
66JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
67 miscellaneous code fixes
68
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69PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
70 rejections.
71
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72PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
73 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
74 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
75 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
76 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
77 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
78 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
79 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
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14aa5a05 81PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 82 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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83 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
84 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
85 function.
86 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
87 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
88 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
89 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
90 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
91 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
92 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
93 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
94 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
95
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96PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
97 decoding.
98
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99PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
100 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
101 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
102 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
103 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
104 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
105 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
106 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
107
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108PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
109 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
110 list.
111
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112PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
113 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
114 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
115 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
116 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
117 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
118 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
119 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
120 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
121 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
122 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
123 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
124 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
125
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126PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
127 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
128 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
129 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
130 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
131 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
132 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
133
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134PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
135 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
136 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
137 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
138 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
139 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
140 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
141 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
142 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
143 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
144
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145PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
146 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
147 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
148 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
149 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
150
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151PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
152 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
153 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
154 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
155 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
156 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
157 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
158
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159PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
160 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
161 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
162 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
163 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
164 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
165 been verified.
166
48da4259 167PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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168 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
169 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
170 and authorization.)
171
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172PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
173 if any retry times were supplied.
174
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175PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
176 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
177 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
178
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179PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
180
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181PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
182
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183PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
184 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
185 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
186 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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187 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
188 before) are ignored.
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190PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
191 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
192
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193PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
194 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
195 committing the later change.]
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197PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
198 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
199 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
200 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
201 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
202 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
203 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
204 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
205 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
206
207 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
208 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
209 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
210 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
211 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
212 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
213 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
214 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
215 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
216
217 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
218 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
219 hammering the server.
220
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221PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
222 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
223
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224PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
225
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226PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
227 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
228 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
229
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230PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
231 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
232 one case where this was not true.
233
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234PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
235 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
236 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
237 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
238 fails.
239
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240PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
241 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
242 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
243 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
244 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
245 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
246 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
247 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
248 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
249 smtp transport.
250
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251PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
252 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
253 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
254 same for both kinds of LMTP.
255
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256PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
257 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
258
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259PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
260 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
261 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
262
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263PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
264
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265PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
266
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267PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
268
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269PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
270 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
271 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
272 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
273
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274PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
275 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
276
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277PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
278 be meaningful with "accept".
279
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280SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
281 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
282
283SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
284 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
285 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
286
287SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
288 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
289 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
290 there is data to show.
291 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
292
293SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
294 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
295 as well as the number of messages.
296
297SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
298 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
299 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
300
301SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
302 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
303 have a flag are now skipped.
304
305SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
306 Added the -emptyok flag.
307
308SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
309 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
310
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311JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
312 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
313 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
314
315JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
316 match 4.64-PH/13
317
318JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
319 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
320
321JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
322
323JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
324 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
325
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326PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
327
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328PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
329 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
330 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
331 contravention of the specifications.
332
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333PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
334 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
335 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
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340
341SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
342 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
343
344SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
345 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
346 there is data to show.
347 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
348
349SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
350 as the number of messages in eximstats.
351
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352TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
353 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 354
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355TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
356 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
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358TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
359 submissions from trusted users.
360
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361TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
362 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
363
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364TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
365 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
366 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
367 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
368 there is now a framework to start from.
369
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370PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
371 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
372 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
373
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374PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
375
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376PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
377
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378PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
379
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380PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
381 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
382 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
383
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384PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
385 libradius.
386
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387PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
388 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
389 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
390
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391PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
392 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
393 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
394 its arguments.
395
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396PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
397 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
398 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
399 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
400 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
401
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402PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
403 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
404
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405PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
406
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407PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
408 operations in malware.c.
409
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410PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
411 signatures.
412
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413PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
414 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
415 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
416 all.
417
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418PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
419 statements to "add_header".
420
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421PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
422 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
423
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424PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
425 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
426 latter.
427
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429 so that it is now:
430
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431 ${if or { \
432 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
433 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
434 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
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435 }{no}{yes}}
436
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437 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
438 don't think Precedence: ever was.
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440PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
441 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
442
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443PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
444 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
445 any possible encoding problems.
446
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447PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
448 but not after initializing Perl.
449
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450PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
451 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
452 apparently, which is not desirable.
453
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454PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
455 queries.
456
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457JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
458 --not options
459
460JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
461
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462PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
463 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
464 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
465 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
466
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467PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
468 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
469 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
470
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471PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
472 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
473 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
474 0.12.
475
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476PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
477 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
478 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
479 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
480 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
481
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485
486TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
487 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
488
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489PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
490 patch).
491
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492PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
493 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
494 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
495 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
496 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
497 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
498 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
499 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
500 451 error is used.
501
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502PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
503
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504PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
505 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
506 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
507
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508PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
509 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
510 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
511 odd errors.
512
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513PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
514 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
515
7e9f683d
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516PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
517 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
518 option (which defaults to 0600).
519
bfad5236
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520PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
521
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522PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
523 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
524 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
525 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
526 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
527 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
528 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
529
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530PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
531
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535
536PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
537 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
538 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
539 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
540 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
541 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
542 addresses as local.
543
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544PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
545 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
546
7e66e54d
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547PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
548
c8ea1597
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549PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
550 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
551 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
552 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
553 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
554 grumble.
555
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556PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
557 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
558
47ca6d6c
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559PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
560 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
561 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
562 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
563 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
564
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565PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
566 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
567 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
568 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
569
eff37e47
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570PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
571 be the same on different OS.
572
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573PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
574 testing.
575
b3f69ca8
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576JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
577 whether --show-vars was specified or not
578
579JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
580 in 4.61-PH/06
581
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582PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
583 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
584 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
585 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
586 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
587 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
588 bounce message.
589
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590PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
591 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
592 when Exim was called.
593
19b9dc85
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594PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
595 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
596
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597PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
598 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
599 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
600 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
601
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602PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
603 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
604 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
605 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
606 changes:
607
608 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
609 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
610 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
611
612 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
613 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
614 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
615
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616PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
617 feature).
618
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619PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
620 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
621 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
622 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
623 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
624 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
625 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
626 values from the SRV records were lost.
627
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628PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
629 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
630 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
631
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632PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
633 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
634 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
635
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636PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
637 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
638 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
639 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
640 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
641 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
642 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
643 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
644 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 645 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 646
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647PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
648 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
649 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
650
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651PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
652 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
653
654PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
655 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
656 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
657 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
658 is given.
659
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660PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
661 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
662 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
663
664PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
665 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
666 PH/23 above applies.
667
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668PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
669 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
670 (for which there is an explicit test).
671
6a3f1455
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672PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
673
dac79d3e
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674PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
675 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
676 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
677 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
678 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 679
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680PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
681 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
682 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
683 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
684
c91535f3
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685PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
686 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
687 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
688
0d46a8c8
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689PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
690
278c6e6c
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691PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
692
2cbb4081
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693PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
694 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
695 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
696
3eef829e
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697PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
698 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
699 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
700 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
701 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
702
1ab95fa6
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703PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
704 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
705 the message gets confusing).
706
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707PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
708 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
709 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
710 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
711
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712PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
713 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
714 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
715 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
716 same order.
717
718PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
719 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
720 the different processes.
721
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722PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
723
3cd34f13
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724PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
725
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726JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
727 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
728
729JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
730 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
731
732JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
733 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
734 messages matching specified criteria.
735
8def5aaf
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736PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
737
929ba01c
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738PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
739 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
740
2632889e
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741PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
742 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
743 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
744 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
745 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
746 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
747 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
748 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
749 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
750 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
751
944a9c55
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752PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
753 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
754 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
755
4a23603b
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756PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
757
4730f942
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758PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
759 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
760 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
761 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
762 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
763 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
764 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
765 the variable.
766
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767PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
768 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
769
382afc6b
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770PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
771
a86229cf
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772PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
773
50c99ba6
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774PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
775
d35e429d
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776PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
777 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
778 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
779 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
780 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
781 size of the count of files.
782
f90d018c
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783PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
784
75def545
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785PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
786 used in LMTP mode:
787
788 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
789 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
790 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
791 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
792
793 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
794 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
795 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
796
797PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
798 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
799 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
800 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
801 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
802
c46782ef
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803PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
804 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
805
71fafd95
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806PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
807 will now be deprecated.
808
2c5db4fd
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809PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
810
9cf6b11a
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811JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
812 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
813 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
814
815JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
816 with very large, slow to parse queues
817
818JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
819
820JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
821
898d150f
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822PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
823 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
824 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
825 SMTP output lines.
826
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827PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
828 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
829 Sieve code now uses this.
830
e97957bc
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831PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
832 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
833
81e509d7
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834PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
835 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
836
3d240ff7
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837PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
838
b37c4101
PH
839PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
840 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
841 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
842 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
843 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
844
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845PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
846 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
847 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
848 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
849
e49c7bb4
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850PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
851
d114ec46
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852PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
853
f3d7df6c
PH
854PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
855 is preferred over IPv4.
856
715ab376
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857PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
858 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
859 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
860 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
861 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
862 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
863 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
864
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865PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
866 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
867 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
868
869PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
870
d515a917
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871PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
872 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
873 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
874 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
875 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
876 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
877 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
878 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
879 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
880 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
881 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
882
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883PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
884 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
885 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
886
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890
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891PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
892
893 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
894 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
895
896 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
897 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
898 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 899
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900PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
901
902 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
903 not a single digit.
904
905 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
906 string.
907
908 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
909 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
910 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
911 silly things.
912
913 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
914 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
915
916 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
917 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 918
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919PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
920 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
921 "/bin:/usr/bin".
922
f174f16e
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923PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
924 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 925
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926PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
927 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
928
929 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
930
931 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
932 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
933 this:
934
935 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
936
82c19f95
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937PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
938 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
939 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
940 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
941 identical. For example:
942
943 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
944
945 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
946 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
947 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
948
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949PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
950 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
951 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
952 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
953
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954PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
955 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
956 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
957 message.
958
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959PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
960
961 o fixes some comments
962 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
963 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
964 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
965 and documents the missing references header update
966
967 and most important:
968
969 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
970 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
971 result)
972
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973PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
974 Electronic Mail") by including:
975
976 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
977
978 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
979 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
980 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
981 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
982 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
983
984 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
985
986 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
987
988 The auto-replied keyword:
989
990 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
991 message by an automatic process,
992
993 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
994
995 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
996 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
997
998 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
999 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1000 other messages.
1001
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1002PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1003 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1004
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1005PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1006
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1007PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1008 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1009 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1010
a0d6ba8a
PH
1011PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1012 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1013 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1014
f0917727
PH
1015PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1016 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1017 and treats the condition as false.
1018
096fee00
PH
1019PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1020
024bd3c2
PH
1021PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1022 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1023 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1024 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1025 not changing the active code.
1026
1027 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1028 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1029
1030 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1031 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1032
df199fec
PH
1033PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1034 (Bugzilla #53).
1035
d27f1df3
PH
1036PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1037 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1038 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1039 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1040 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1041 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1042 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1043 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1044 the text comparison.
1045
96776534
PH
1046PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1047 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1048 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1049 The same fix has been applied.
1050
5de37277 1051
9a799bc0
PH
1052Exim version 4.54
1053-----------------
1054
1055PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1056 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1057 It now does.
1058
99a4b039
PH
1059PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1060 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1061
1062PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1063
4b233853
PH
1064PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1065 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1066 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1067 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1068 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1069
8857ccfd
PH
1070TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1071 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1072 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1073 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1074 or /domain=).
1075
433a2980
PH
1076PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1077 testing suite.
1078
3e46c1aa 1079
9a799bc0 1080
e3a311ba
TK
1081Exim version 4.53
1082-----------------
1083
1084TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1085 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1086
13b685f9
PH
1087PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1088
395ff96d
PH
1089PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1090
5b68f6e4
PH
1091PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1092 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1093 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1094
1ab52c69
PH
1095PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1096 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1097 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1098
b07e6aa3
PH
1099PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1100 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1101 operating systems.
1102
254e032f
PH
1103PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1104 ${stat: expansion item.
1105
3af76a81
PH
1106PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1107 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1108
2548ba04
PH
1109PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1110 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1111 file for comments.
1112
b6c6011d
PH
1113PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1114
cf39cf57
PH
1115PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1116 setting.
1117
f1513293
PH
1118PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1119 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1120
727549a4
PH
1121TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1122
af46795e
PH
1123PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1124 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1125 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1126 the end of the subprocess.
1127
d7b47fd0
PH
1128PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1129 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1130 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1131 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1132 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1133
ee744174
JJ
1134JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1135
b582ab87
PH
1136TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1137
41a13e0a
PH
1138PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1139 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1140
f625cc5a
PH
1141PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1142
1143PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1144
21f7af35
PH
1145PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1146 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1147 HP-UX compiler.
1148
31480e42
PH
1149PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1150
2d280592
PH
1151PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1152 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1153 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1154
7cd1141b
PH
1155PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1156 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1157
1158PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1159 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1160
750af86e
PH
1161PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1162 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1163
1164 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1165 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1166
1167 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1168 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1169 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1170 contributed by a Radius user.
1171
1172PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1173 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1174
4304270b
TK
1175TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1176 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1177
750af86e
PH
1178PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1179 available.
1180
64ffc24f
PH
1181PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1182 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1183 received.
1184
5dd9625b
PH
1185PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1186 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1187 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1188 header lines when this was not necessary.
1189
5591031b
PH
1190PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1191
ba18e66a
PH
1192PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1193 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1194 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1195 exists".
1196
9cec981f
PH
1197PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1198 -bV or -d is used.
1199
aa2b5c79
PH
1200PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1201 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1202 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1203 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1204
48a53b7f
PH
1205PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1206
1c59d63b
PH
1207PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1208
671012da
TK
1209TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1210
1509d3a8
PH
1211PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1212
1213PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1214 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1215 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1216 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1217 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1218 settings.
1219
1220PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1221
2fe1a124
PH
1222PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1223 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1224 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1225 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1226 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1227 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1228 which is clearly wrong.
1229
8800895a
PH
1230PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1231
ccfdb010
PH
1232PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1233 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1234 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1235 subsequently added.
1236
1130bfb0
PH
1237PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1238 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1239
ebcb507f
PH
1240PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1241
c35e155c
PH
1242PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1243 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1244
95d1f782
PH
1245PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1246 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1247
fd6de02e
PH
1248PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1249 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1250
58de37c5
PH
1251PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1252 recipients, not senders.
1253
261cf466
TF
1254TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1255 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1256
3ee512ff
PH
1257PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1258
e08c430f
PH
1259PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1260
bef5a11f
PH
1261PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1262 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1263 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1264 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1265
7546de58
TF
1266TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1267
e5d5a95f
TF
1268TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1269 clock is set back in time.
1270
2e88a017
TF
1271TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1272 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1273
a5f65aa4
TF
1274TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1275 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1276
e7726cbf
PH
1277PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1278 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1279 (see PH/47 above).
1280
a7fdad5b
TF
1281TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1282 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1283 header rewrites.
1284
6af56900
PH
1285PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1286 type ("H").
1287
0925ede6
PH
1288PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1289
66afa403
TF
1290TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1291 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1292 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1293
0154e85a
TF
1294TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1295 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1296 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1297 helo verification defer as a failure.
1298
16f12c76
PH
1299PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1300 actual error message.
1301
bbe902f0 1302
e5a9dba6
PH
1303Exim version 4.52
1304-----------------
1305
1306TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1307
22c3b60b
PH
1308PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1309 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1310 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1311 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1312
06a9b4b5
PH
1313TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1314
c1ac6996
PH
1315PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1316 can still be requested.
1317
9c7a242c
PH
1318PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1319 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1320 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1321 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1322
87ba3f5f
PH
1323TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1324 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1325 circumstances, but probably never did.
1326
1327PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1328 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1329 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1330 in the header line.
1331
29aba418
TF
1332TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1333
fe0dab11
TF
1334TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1335 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 1336
11d337a4
TK
1337TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1338
1339TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1340
415c8f3b
PH
1341PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1342 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1343 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1344 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1345 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1346 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 1347
958541e9
PH
1348PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1349 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1350 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1351 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1352 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1353 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1354
c206415f
TK
1355TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1356 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1357
2a4be8f9
PH
1358PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1359 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1360
1cba11c5
SC
1361SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1362 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1363
1364SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1365
1366SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1367
1368SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1369
1370SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1371
1372SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1373
1374SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1375
1005d00e
TK
1376TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1377
1378TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1379 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1380 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1381
1382TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1383 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1384 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1385 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1386
9b4768fa
PH
1387PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1388 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1389 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1390
1391PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1392 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1393 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1394 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1395
0d7eb84a
PH
1396PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1397 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1398 to be made).
1399
1400PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1401 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1402 should work with maildirs and everything.
1403
40727bee
TK
1404TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1405 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1406
554d2369
TF
1407TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1408 <jgh@wizmail.org>
1409
1f922db1
PH
1410PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1411 function for BDB 4.3.
1412
ef213c3b
PH
1413PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1414
8ac170f3
PH
1415PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1416 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1417 involved.
1418
b1c749bb
PH
1419PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1420 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1421 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
1422 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1423 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1424 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 1425
4aac9b49
PH
1426PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1427 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1428 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1429 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1430 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1431 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1432 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1433 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1434
294520c8
TK
1435TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1436 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1437 details.
1438
5bd022fe
PH
1439PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1440 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1441
90e9ce59
PH
1442PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1443 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1444 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1445 test. It is now used for both.
1446
5ea81592
PH
1447PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1448 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1449 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1450 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1451 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1452 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1453
c6c2dc1d
PH
1454PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1455 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1456 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1457 string_vformat().
1458
fffffe4c
PH
1459PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1460 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1461 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 1462
9a26b6b2
PH
1463PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1464 experimental DomainKeys support:
1465
1466 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1467 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1468 the control was given.
1469
1470 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1471
4aee0225
PH
1472PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1473
32d668a5
PH
1474PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1475
8187c3f3
PH
1476PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1477 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1478 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1479 db.h files).
1480
ff790e47 1481PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
1482 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1483 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1484 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1485 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1486 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1487 course.
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1489PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1490 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1491 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1492 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1493 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1494 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1495
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1496PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1497 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1498 do -d+all out of habit.
1499
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1500PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1501 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1502 x86_64 Fedora Core.
1503
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1504PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1505 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1506 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1507 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1508 record types that Exim uses.
1509
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1510PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1511 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1512 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1513 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1514 non-existent file that was broken.
1515
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1516TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1517 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1518
1519TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1520 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1521 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1522
1523TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1524
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1525PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1526 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1527 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1528 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1529 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1530 same time.
1531
a388bce4
SC
1532SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1533 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1534 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1535 at a slight CPU cost.
1536
1537SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1538 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1539
1540SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1541 by Marc Sherman.
1542
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1543SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1544
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1545PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1546 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1547
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1549Exim version 4.51
1550-----------------
1551
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1552TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1553 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1554
2f079f46 1555TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
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1556
1557TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1558
1559PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1560 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1561
1562PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1563 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1564 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1565 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1566 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1567 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1568 file.
1569
1570PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1571 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1572 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1573 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1574 these two options.
1575
1576PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1577 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1578 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1579 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1580 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1581 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1582 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 1583 address.
1a46a8c5
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1584
1585PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1586 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1587
1588PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1589 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1590 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1591 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1592 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1593 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1594
1595PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1596 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1597 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1598 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1599
1600PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1601 Finch).
1602
1603PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1604 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 1605
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1606PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1607 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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1608 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1609 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1610 message.
49c2d5ea 1611
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1612PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1613
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1614PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1615 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1616
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1617PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1618 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1619 to what was transported.)
1620
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1621TF/01 Added $received_time.
1622
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1623PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1624 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1625 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1626 spamd_address settings.
1627
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1628PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1629 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1630 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1631 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1632 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1633
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1634PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1635
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1636PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1637 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1638 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1639 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1640 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1641
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PH
1642PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1643 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1644
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1645PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1646 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1647 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1648 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1649 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1650 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1651 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1652 for failure.
1653
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1654PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1655 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1656 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1657 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1658 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1659 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1660 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1661 "input=".
1662
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1663PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1664
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1665PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1666 driver and ACL definitions.
1667
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1668PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1669 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1670
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PH
1671PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1672 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1673 understands it better than I do:
1674
1675 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1676 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1677
1678 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1679 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1680 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1681 => three warnings about OTP not working
1682 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1683
1684 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1685 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1686 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1687 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1688 for each call.)
1689 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1690 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1691
1692 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1693 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1694 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1695
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1696PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1697 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1698 specified.
1699
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1700PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1701 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1702 "Linux".
1703
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1704PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1705 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1706 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1707
1708 warn !verify = sender
1709 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1710
1711 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1712 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1713
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1714PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1715
1716 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1717 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1718
1719 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1720 nomenclature these days.)
1721
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1722PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1723 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1724
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1725PH/30 In these circumstances:
1726 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1727 . First host does not offer TLS;
1728 . First host accepts first address;
1729 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1730 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1731 . Second host accepts second address.
1732 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1733 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1734 address.
7e8bec7a 1735
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PH
1736PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1737 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1738 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1739 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1740 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1741
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1742PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1743 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1744
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1745PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1746 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 1747
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1748PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1749 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1750 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1751
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1752PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1753 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1754 overlooked.
1755
1756PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1757
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1758PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1759 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1760 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1761 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1762 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1763 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1764 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1765
1766 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1767 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1768 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1769 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1770 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1771
1772 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1773 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1774 routed further.
1775
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1776PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1777 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1778 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1779 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1780 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1781 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1782
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1783PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1784
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1785PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1786 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1787 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1788 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1789 printable escape sequences.
1790
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1791PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1792 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1793 body only.
1794
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1795PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1796 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1797 are as follows:
1798
1799 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1800 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1801 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1802 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1803 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1804
1805 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1806 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1807 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1808
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1809PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1810
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1811PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1812 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1813 play with."
1814
2e2a30b4
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1815PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1816 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1817 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1818 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1819 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1820 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1821 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1822 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1823 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1824 the log output.
1825
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1826PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1827 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1828 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1829 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1830 "make".
1831
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1833A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1834----------------------------------------
1835
1836Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1837changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1838needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1839in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1840that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1841release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1842from 4.43.
1843
1844I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
18454.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1846those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1847historical information.
1848
1849
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1851-----------------
1852
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1853 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1854
139059f6 1855 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 1856 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
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1858 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1859 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1860 place.
1861
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1862 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1863 filter fails to execute.
1864
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1865 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1866 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1867 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1868 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1869 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1870
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1871 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1872
1873 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1874 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1875 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1876 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
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1878 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1879 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1880 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1881 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1882 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1883
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1884 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1885
5be20824
PH
188610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1887
eb2c0248
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188811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1889 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1890 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1891 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1892
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189312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1894 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1895 sender verification.
1896
189713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1898 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1899
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190014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1901
4deaf07d
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190215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1903 connection timeout.
1904
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190516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1906 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1907
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190817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1909 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1910
2c7db3f5
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191118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1912 information about exactly what failed.
1913
3d235903
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191419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1915
7c7ad977
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191620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1917 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1918 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1919
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192021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1921 It is now set to "smtps".
1922
d4eb88df
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192322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1924 ignore_target_hosts.
1925
192623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1927 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1928 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1929 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1930 "[x.x.x.x]".
1931
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193224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1933 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1934 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1935
193625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1937 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1938 wake it up if nothing else does.
1939
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194026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1941 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1942 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1943 end up negative.
1944
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194527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1946 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1947
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194828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1949
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195029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1951 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1952 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1953 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1954 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1955 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1956 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1957 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1958
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195930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1960 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1961 than one IP address.
1962
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196331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1964 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1965 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1966 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1967
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196832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1969 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1970 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1971 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1972 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1973 1024 to 2048 bytes.
1974
063b1e99
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197533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1976 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1977 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1978 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1979
652e1b65
PH
198034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1981 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1982 respected.
1983
6f0c9a4f
PH
198435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1985 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1986 $sender_host_address.
1987
33397d19
PH
198836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1989 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1990 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1991 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1992 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1993 very small.
1994
7bb56e1f
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199537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1996
1997 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1998 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1999
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2000 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2001 just the host names, not the priorities.
2002
2003 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2004 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2005 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2006
ea3bc19b 2007 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2008 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2009
0bcb2a0e
PH
201038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2011 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2012 domain.
2013
2ac0e484
PH
201439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2015
4e1fde53
PH
201640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2017 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2018
de365ded
PH
201941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2020 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2021 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2022
f05da2e8
PH
202342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2024
d6453af2
PH
202543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2026
f7b63901
PH
202744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2028
202945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2030 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2031 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2032 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2033 because the tests only now provoked it.
2034
a444213a
PH
203546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2036 (this can affect the format of dates).
2037
0ec020ea
PH
203847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2039 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2040 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2041 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2042
b1206957
PH
204348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2044
204549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2046 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2047 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2048 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2049
26dd5a95
PH
205050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2051 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2052 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2053
343b2385
PH
205451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2055 autoreply.
2056
1c5466b9
PH
205752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2058 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2059 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2060 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2061 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2062 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2063 is going on).
2064
55ee9ee3
PH
206553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2066 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2067 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2068 the line.
2069
d38f8232
PH
207054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2071 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2072 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2073
2074 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2075 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2076 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2077 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2078 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2079 so I produce this patch..."
2080
3295e65b
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2081 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2082 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2083 is not defined.
2084
7102e136
PH
208555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2086 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2087 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2088 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2089 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2090
3ca0ba97
PH
209156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2092
c2bcbe20
PH
209357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2094 long debug lines gets shown.
2095
18ce445d
PH
209658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2097 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2098
1f5b4c3d
PH
209959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2100
2101 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2102 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2103 of $primary_hostname.
2104
b975ba52
PH
210560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2106 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2107 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2108 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2109 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2110 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2111 by change 4.50/55 above.
2112
2113 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2114 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2115 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2116 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2117 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2118 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2119 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2120
212161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2122 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2123 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2124 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2125
17ffcae7
PH
212662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2127 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2128
d95f9fdb
PH
212963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2130 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2131 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2132 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2133 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2134
86b8287f
PH
213564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2136 This has been fixed.
2137
60dc5e56
PH
213865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2139 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2140 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2141 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2142 the caching.)
2143
533244af
PH
214466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2145
a5a28604
PH
214667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2147 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2148 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2149 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2150
7e634d24
PH
215168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2152 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2153
3e11c26b
PH
215469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2155 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2156 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2157
6729cf78
PH
215870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2159 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2160 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2161 message there.
2162
00f00ca5
PH
216371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2164 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2165 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2166
c9bdd01c
PH
216772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2168 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2169 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2170 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2171
d43194df
PH
217273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2173 during host lookups.
2174
fe5b5d0b
PH
217574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2176 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2177
2178 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2179
76a2d7ba
PH
218075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2181 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2182 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2183 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2184 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2185 background.
2186
218776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2188 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2189
04f7d5b9
PH
219077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2191 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2192 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2193
bc60667e
PH
219478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2195
bb6e88ff
PH
219679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2197 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2198 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2199 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2200 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2201 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2202 process earlier.
2203
1e70f85b
PH
220480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2205 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2206 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2207 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2208 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2209
221081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2211 tables).
2212
4e01f9d6
PH
221382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2214
1ee1cef2
PH
221583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2216 "vacation" handling.
2217
6e2b4ccc
PH
221884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2219 OS variants using glibc.
2220
8e669ac1
PH
222185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2222
495ae4b0 2223
bbe902f0
PH
2224----------------------------------------------------
2225See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2226----------------------------------------------------
2227
2228
2229Exim version 4.44
2230-----------------
2231
2232 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2233 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2234 transport
2235
2236 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2237 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2238 place.
2239
2240 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2241 filter fails to execute.
2242
2243 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2244 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2245 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2246 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2247 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2248
2249 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2250 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2251 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2252 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2253
2254 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2255 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2256 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2257 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2258 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2259
2260 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2261
2262 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2263 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2264 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2265 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2266
2267 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2268 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2269 sender verification.
2270
227110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2272 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2273
227411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2275 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2276
227712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2278 ignore_target_hosts.
2279
228013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2281 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2282 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2283 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2284 "[x.x.x.x]".
2285
228614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2287 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2288 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2289
229015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2291 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2292 wake it up if nothing else does.
2293
229416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2295 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2296 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2297 end up negative.
2298
229917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2300 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2301
ea3a6f44 230218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
2303
230419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2305 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2306 empty pattern.
2307
230820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2309 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2310 one IP address.
2311
ea3a6f44
NM
231221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2313 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2314 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2315 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2316 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2317 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2318
ea3a6f44
NM
231922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2320 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2321 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
2322
232323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2324 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2325 $sender_host_address.
2326
232724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2328
ea3a6f44
NM
232925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2330 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2331 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
2332
233326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 2334 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 2335
ea3a6f44
NM
233627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2337 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 2338
ea3a6f44
NM
233928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2340 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2341 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2342 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
2343
234429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2345 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2346 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2347
ea3a6f44
NM
234830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2349 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2350 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2351 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 2352
ea3a6f44
NM
235331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2354 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2355 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 2356
ea3a6f44
NM
235731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2358 autoreply.
bbe902f0 2359
ea3a6f44
NM
236032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2361 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2362 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2363 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2364 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2365 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2366 is going on).
bbe902f0 2367
ea3a6f44
NM
236833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2369 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2370 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2371 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
2372 CAN-2005-0021
2373
ea3a6f44
NM
237434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2375 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2376 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2377 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2378 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2379 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2380 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2381
2382 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2383 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2384 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2385 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2386 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2387 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
2388 CAN-2005-0021
2389
ea3a6f44
NM
239035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2391 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2392 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
2393 CAN-2005-0022
2394
ea3a6f44
NM
239536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2396 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2397 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2398 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2399 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 2400
ea3a6f44
NM
240137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2402 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2403 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2404 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2405 the caching.)
bbe902f0 2406
ea3a6f44
NM
240738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2408 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2409 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2410 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2411 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
2412
2413
495ae4b0
PH
2414Exim version 4.43
2415-----------------
2416
2417 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2418 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2419 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2420 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2421 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2422 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2423 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2424
2425 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2426 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2427 the delivery.
2428
2429 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2430
2431 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2432
2433 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2434 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2435 to local_scan().
2436
2437 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2438 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2439 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2440 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2441 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2442
2443 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2444 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2445
2446 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2447
2448 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2449
245010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2451 header_sender only.
2452
245311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2454 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2455
245612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2457 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2458 affecting debugging statements).
2459
246013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2461
246214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2463 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2464 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2465 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2466 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2467 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2468 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2469 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2470 after the received time, and all would be well.
2471
247215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2473 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2474 condition in an expansion string.
2475
247616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2477
247817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2479 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2480 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2481 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2482 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2483 job under whatever limits there are.
2484
248518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2486
248719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2488 space).
2489
249020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2491 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2492 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2493 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2494 return path is set.
2495
249621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2497 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2498 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2499 binary data in such strings.
2500
250122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2502
250323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2504 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2505 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2506 failure, which is pointless.
2507
250824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2509
251025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2511
251226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2513 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2514 Sender: header lines.
2515
251627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2517 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2518 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2519
252028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2521 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2522 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2523 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2524 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2525 happens.
2526
252729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2528 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2529 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2530 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2531 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2532
253330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2534 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2535 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2536 1024.
2537
253831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2539 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2540
254132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2542 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2543
254433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2545
254632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2547
254833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2549
255034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2551 syntax error.
2552
255335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2554
255536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2556
255737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2558 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2559 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2560 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2561
256238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2563 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2564
2565
2566Exim version 4.42
2567-----------------
2568
2569 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2570 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2571 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2572 it was not quoted.
2573 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2574 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2575 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2576 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2577 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2578 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2579
2580 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2581 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2582 verification failure".
2583
2584 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2585 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2586 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2587 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2588
2589 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2590 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2591 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2592 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2593 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2594 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2595 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2596 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2597 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2598 treated as a timeout.
2599
2600 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2601 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2602 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2603 not set for Exim filters).
2604
2605 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2606 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2607 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2608
2609 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2610
2611 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2612 try to make them clearer.
2613
2614 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2615 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2616
2617 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2618
2619 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2620
262110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2622 only the Cygwin environment.
2623
262411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2625 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2626 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2627 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2628 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2629
263012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2631 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2632 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2633 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2634 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2635 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2636 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2637
263813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2639 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2640
264114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2642
2643 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2644 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2645 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2646
2647 To: susanne@some.where
2648
2649 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2650 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2651 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2652 of addresses in From: header lines).
2653
2654 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2655 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2656 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2657
2658 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2659 treated as non-personal.
2660
2661 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2662 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2663
266415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2665
266616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2667
266817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2669 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2670 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2671
267218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2673 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2674
267519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2676 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2677 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2678 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2679 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2680 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2681
268220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2683 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2684 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2685 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2686 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2687 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2688 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2689 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2690
2691 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2692
269321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2694 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2695
269622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2697 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2698 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2699
270023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2701 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2702
270324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2704 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2705 rather than long int.
2706
270725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2708
270926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2710
2711
2712Exim version 4.41
2713-----------------
2714
2715 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2716 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2717 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2718 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2719 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2720 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2721
2722
2723Exim version 4.40
2724-----------------
2725
2726 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2727 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2728
2729 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2730 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2731 socklen_t is defined.
2732
2733 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2734 always exist.
2735
2736 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2737 configured.
2738
2739 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2740 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2741 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2742 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2743 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2744
2745 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2746 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2747 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2748 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2749
2750 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2751 of flapping under certain conditions.
2752
2753 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2754 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2755 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2756
2757 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2758
275910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2760
276111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2762 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2763 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2764 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2765
276612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2767 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2768 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2769 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2770 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2771 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2772 preserved with the message after it was received.
2773
277413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2775 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2776 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2777 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2778 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2779 test suite worked just fine.
2780
278114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2782 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2783 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2784
278515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2786 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2787 string.
2788
278916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2790 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2791 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2792 does not fully solve it.
2793
279417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2795 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2796 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2797 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2798 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2799
280018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2801 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2802 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2803
280419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2805 string, for example:
2806
2807 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2808
2809 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2810 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2811 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2812 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2813 the routers could not see them.
2814
281520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2816 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2817
281821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2819 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2820 output).
2821
282222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2823 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2824 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2825 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2826 that needed quoting.
2827
282823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2829 was not being matched caselessly.
2830
283124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2832 backslashes.
2833
283425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2835 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2836 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2837 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2838 when use_sender is false.
2839
284026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2841
284227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2843
284428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2845
284629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2847 the configuration file.
2848
284930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2850 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2851
285231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2853
285432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2855 bytes in the message body.
2856
285733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2858 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2859 delivery.
2860
286134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2862
286335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2864
286536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2866 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2867 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2868 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2869 another IP address.
2870
2871
2872Exim version 4.34
2873-----------------
2874
2875 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2876 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2877
2878 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2879 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2880 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2881 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2882 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2883
2884 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2885 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2886
2887 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2888 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2889 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2890
2891 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2892 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2893 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2894
2895 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2896 for routers.
2897
2898 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2899 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2900 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2901 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2902 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2903 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2904 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2905
2906
2907Exim version 4.33
2908-----------------
2909
2910 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2911 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2912 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2913 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2914 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2915 default (and expected) setting.
2916
2917 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2918 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2919 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2920 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2921
2922 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2923 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2924
2925 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2926 in domain lists.
2927
2928 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2929 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2930 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2931 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2932 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2933 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2934
2935 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2936 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2937 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2938
2939 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2940 part (NOT match_host).
2941
2942 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2943
2944 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2945 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2946 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2947 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2948 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2949 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2950 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2951 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2952 the same named file.
2953
295410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2955 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2956 when Exim is built.
2957
295811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2959 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2960 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2961 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2962 a host name.
2963
296412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2965 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2966 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2967
296813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2969
297014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2971
297215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2973
297416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2975 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2976
297717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2978 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2979 before starting the TLS session.
2980
298118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2982
298319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2984 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2985
298620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2987 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2988 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2989 colon in the middle).
2990
2991
2992Exim version 4.32
2993-----------------
2994
2995 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2996 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2997 multiple configurations are in use.
2998
2999 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3000 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3001 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3002 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3003 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3004 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3005
3006 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3007 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3008
3009 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3010 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3011 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3012
3013 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3014 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3015 occurs.
3016
3017 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3018 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3019
3020 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3021
3022 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3023 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3024
3025 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3026
3027 -prval:sval
3028
3029 is equivalent to
3030
3031 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3032
3033 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3034 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3035 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3036 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3037 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3038
303910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3040 Exim's behaviour:
3041
3042 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3043 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3044 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3045 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3046 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3047 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3048
3049 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3050 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3051 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3052 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3053 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3054 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3055 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3056 string.
3057
3058 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3059 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3060 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3061 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3062 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3063
306411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3065
306612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3067 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3068 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3069
307013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3071
307214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3073 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3074 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3075 information.
3076
307715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3078 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3079
308016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3081 Three changes have been made:
3082
3083 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3084 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3085 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3086 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3087 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3088
3089 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3090 been restored.
3091
3092 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3093 the modified behaviour.
3094
3095
3096Exim version 4.31
3097-----------------
3098
3099 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3100 Larry Rosenman.
3101
3102 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3103 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3104
3105 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3106 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3107 try to track down a specific problem.
3108
3109 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3110 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3111 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3112
3113 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3114 warning.
3115
3116 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3117 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3118 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3119 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3120 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3121 some earlier ones do not.
3122
3123 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3124
3125 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3126 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3127 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3128 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3129 address literals are enabled, of course).
3130
3131 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3132
313310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3134 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3135 by a command such as
3136
3137 exim -f "" ...
3138
3139 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3140
314111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3142
314312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3144 remained set. It is now erased.
3145
314613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3147 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3148
314914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3150 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3151 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3152 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3153 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3154 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3155 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3156 appropriate error code.
3157
315815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3159 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3160 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3161 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3162 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3163 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3164
316516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3166 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3167 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3168
316917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3170 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3171 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3172 terminate the header.
3173
317418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3175 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3176 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3177
317819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3179 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3180 (4.30/29). In particular:
3181
3182 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3183 imposed.
3184
3185 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3186 to write a maildirsize file.
3187
3188 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3189 the transport, the new value overrides.
3190
3191 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3192 count.
3193
319420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3195 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3196 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3197 space or a tab.
3198
319921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3200 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3201 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3202 the fallback hosts.
3203
320422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3205 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3206 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3207
320823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3209 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3210 using a union.
3211
321224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3213 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3214 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3215
321625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3217
321826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3219
322027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3221
322228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3223 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3224 become corrupted.
3225
322629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3227 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3228 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3229 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3230 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3231 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3232 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3233 too great.
3234
323530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3236 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3237 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3238 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3239 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3240 incorrectly.
3241
324231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3243 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3244 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3245 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3246 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3247 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3248 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3249 cached value only when the same options are set.
3250
325132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3252
325333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3254 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3255 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3256 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3257 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3258
325934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3260 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3261 it is clearly obsolete.
3262
326335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3264 transport.
3265
326636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3267 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3268 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3269 times.
3270
327137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3272 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3273 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3274 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3275 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3276
327738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3278 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3279 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3280 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3281
328239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3283
3284 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3285
3286 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3287 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3288 2^31.
3289
329040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3291 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3292 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3293 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3294 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3295 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3296 $localpart_data.
3297
329841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3299 with the -f command-line option.
3300
330142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3302 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3303 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3304 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3305 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3306 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3307
330843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3309 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3310 line.
3311
331244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3313 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3314 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3315 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3316 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3317 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3318 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3319 buffer is too small.
3320
332145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3322 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3323
332446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3325 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3326 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3327 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3328 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3329 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3330 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3331 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3332 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3333
333447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3335 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3336 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3337
333848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3339 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3340 ACL").
3341
334249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3343 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3344 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3345 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3346 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3347
334850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3349 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3350 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3351 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3352 is set.
3353
335451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3355
335652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3357
335853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3359 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3360
336154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3362 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3363 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3364
336555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3366 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3367 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3368 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3369 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3370
337156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3372 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3373 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3374 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3375 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3376 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3377 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3378
337957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3380 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3381 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3382 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3383 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3384 the test of how many are available.
3385
338658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3387 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3388 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3389 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3390 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3391 new message is started.
3392
339359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3394 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3395
339660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3397 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3398
339961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3400 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3401 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3402 is no long logged.
3403
340462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3405 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3406 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3407 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3408 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3409 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3410 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3411
341263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3413 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3414 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3415 interpreted as octal.
3416
341764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3418 setting.
3419
342065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3421 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3422 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3423 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3424 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3425 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3426
342766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3428 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3429 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3430 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3431
3432 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3433 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3434 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3435 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3436
3437 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3438 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3439 is a bug fix.
3440
3441 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3442 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3443
344467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3445
344668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3447 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3448 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3449 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3450
345169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3452 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3453 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3454 supplied", which is not helpful.
3455
345670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3457 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3458 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3459
346071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3461 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3462 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3463 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3464 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3465 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3466 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3467 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3468
346972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3470 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3471 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3472 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3473 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3474
347573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3476 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3477 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3478 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3479 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3480 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3481
348274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3483 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3484 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3485
348675. Added write_rejectlog option.
3487
348876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3489 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3490 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3491 variables.
3492
349377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3494
349578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3496 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3497 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3498 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3499 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3500 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3501 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3502 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3503
350479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3505 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3506 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3507 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3508 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3509
351080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3511 Haardt.
3512
351381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3514 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3515 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3516 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3517 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3518 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3519 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3520 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3521 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3522
3523
3524Exim version 4.30
3525-----------------
3526
3527 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3528 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3529 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3530
3531 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3532 fixed.
3533
3534 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3535 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3536 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3537
3538 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3539 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3540 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3541 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3542 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3543 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3544
3545 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3546 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3547 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3548 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3549 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3550 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3551 the Exim test suite.
3552
3553 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3554 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3555 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3556 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3557
3558 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3559 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3560 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3561 specify it in this variable.
3562
3563 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3564 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3565 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3566 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3567
3568 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3569 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3570 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3571 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3572
3573 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3574 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3575 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3576 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3577 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3578
3579 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3580
358110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3582 they are logged.
3583
358411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3585 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3586 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3587 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3588 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3589
359012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3591 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3592
359313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3594 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3595 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3596 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3597 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3598
359914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3600 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3601
360215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3603 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3604 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3605
360616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3607 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3608
360917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3610 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3611
361218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3613 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3614 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3615
361619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3617 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3618
361920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3620 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3621 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3622 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3623
362421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3625
362622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3627 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3628 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3629 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3630
363123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3632
363324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3634 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3635
363625. Added .include_if_exists.
3637
363826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3639 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3640 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3641 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3642 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3643 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3644
364527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3646
364728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3648 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3649 this.
3650
365129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3652
365330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3654 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3655
3656 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3657 550 Sender verify failed
3658
3659 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3660 the final line of the response.
3661
366231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3663 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3664 all other user lookups.
3665
366632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3667 delivery time.
3668
366933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3670 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3671 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3672 result into an int without checking.
3673
367434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3675 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3676 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3677
367835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3679 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3680 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3681 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3682
368336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3684 correctly.
3685
368637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3687 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3688
368938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3690 to the empty sender.
3691
369239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3693 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3694 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3695 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3696 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3697 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3698 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3699 panic log.
3700
370140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3702 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3703 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3704 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3705 used.
3706
370741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3708 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3709
371042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3711 timestamps.
3712
371343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3714 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3715
371644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3717
371845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3719 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3720 logs.
3721
372246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3723 as soon as it is encountered.
3724
372547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3726
372748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3728 rewritten to "<>".
3729
373049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3731 recognizes a tab character.
3732
373350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3734 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3735 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3736 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3737
373851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3739
374052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3741 crash.
3742
374353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3744
374554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3746
374755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3748 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3749 2822.
3750
375156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3752 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3753 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3754 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3755 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3756
375757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3758 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3759
376058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3761 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3762 list (.included file names were always shown).
3763
376459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3765 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3766 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3767 root at that time.
3768
376960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3770 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3771
377261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3773
377462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3775
377663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3777
377864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3779 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3780 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3781 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3782 failures to open the logs.
3783
378465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3785 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3786 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3787 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3788 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3789 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3790 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3791
3792
3793Exim version 4.24
3794-----------------
3795
3796 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3797 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3798 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3799 change 4.23/1.
3800
3801 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3802 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3803 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3804
3805 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3806 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3807 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3808
3809 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3810 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3811 causing some misleading effects.
3812
3813 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3814 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3815 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3816
3817 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3818 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3819 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3820 queue-runner function directly.
3821
3822
3823Exim version 4.23
3824-----------------
3825
3826 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3827 HEADERS_CHARSET.
3828
3829 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3830 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3831 was always written to the default place.
3832
3833 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3834 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3835 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3836
3837 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3838
3839 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3840
3841 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3842 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3843 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3844
3845 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3846 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3847 must start.
3848
3849 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3850 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3851 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3852
3853 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3854 command line option is disabled.
3855
3856 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3857 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3858
3859 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3860
3861 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3862
3863 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3864 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3865
386610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3867
386811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3869 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3870 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3871 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3872 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3873 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3874
387512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3876 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3877 timeout.
3878
387913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3880 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3881
388214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3883 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3884
388515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3886 received was valid base64.
3887
388816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3889 name of the variable that was being set.
3890
389117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3892
389318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3894 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3895 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3896 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3897 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3898 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3899
390019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3901
390220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3903 nor realm was specified.
3904
390521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3906 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3907 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3908 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3909
391022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3911 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3912 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3913
391423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3915 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3916 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3917
391824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3919 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3920 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3921 some systems use these upper case variants.
3922
392325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3924 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3925 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3926 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3927
392826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3929
393027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3931 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3932
393328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3934 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3935 expansion variable.
3936
393729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3938
393930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3940 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3941 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3942 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3943
394431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3945 using it.
3946
394732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3948 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3949 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3950
395133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3952 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3953
395434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3955 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3956 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3957 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3958
395935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3960 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3961 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3962
396336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3964
396537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3966 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3967 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3968 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3969 aborted.
3970
397138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3972 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3973 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3974
397539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3976
397740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3978 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3979
398041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3981 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3982
398342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3984 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3985 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3986 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3987 when emails are that large.
3988
3989
3990
3991Exim version 4.22
3992-----------------
3993
3994 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3995 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3996
3997 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3998 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3999 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4000
4001 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4002 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4003 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4004
4005 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4006 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4007 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4008 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4009 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4010
4011 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4012 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4013 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4014 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4015 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4016 ever.
4017
4018 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4019 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4020 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4021 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4022 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4023 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4024 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4025 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4026 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4027 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4028 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4029 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4030 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4031 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4032
4033 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4034 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4035 parameterised it.
4036
4037 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4038 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4039 error should be diagnosed.
4040
4041 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4042 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4043 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4044 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4045 appeared instead of "NULL".
4046
404710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4048 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4049 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4050 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4051 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4052 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4053 proceeds).
4054
4055 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4056 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4057 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4058
4059
4060Exim version 4.21
4061-----------------
4062
4063 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4064 or receiver verification errors.
4065
4066 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4067 name.
4068
4069 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4070 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4071 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4072 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4073
4074 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4075 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4076 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4077 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4078 shouldn't happen again.
4079
4080 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4081 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4082 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4083
4084 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4085 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4086
4087 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4088
4089 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4090 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4091
4092 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4093 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4094 RFC.
4095
409610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4097 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4098 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4099
410011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4101 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4102 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4103 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4104
410512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4106 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4107 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4108 to define what should happen).
4109
411013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4111 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4112 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4113
411414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4115
411615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4117
411816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4119 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4120
412117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4122 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4123 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4124 structure in all cases.
4125
4126 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4127 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4128 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4129 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4130
413118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4132 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4133 domain name.
4134
413519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4136 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4137
413820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4139 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4140
414121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4142 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4143 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4144
414522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4146 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4147 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4148
414923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4150 the book and for uniformity.
4151
415224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4153
415425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4155 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4156 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4157 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4158 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4159 non-existent command as the problem.
4160
416126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4162 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4163 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4164
416527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4166
416728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4168 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4169 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4170
417129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4172 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4173 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4174 timestamps using strftime().
4175
417630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4177 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4178
417932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4180 transport-time rewrites.
4181
418233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4183 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4184 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4185 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4186
418734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4188 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4189
419035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4191 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4192 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4193 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4194 comma and a space.
4195
419636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4197 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4198 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4199 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4200 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4201 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4202 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4203
420437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4205 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4206 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4207 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4208 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4209
421038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4211 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4212 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4213 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4214 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4215 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4216 remaining text gets split now.
4217
421839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4219 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4220 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4221 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4222
422340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4224 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4225 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4226 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4227 $return_path.
4228
422941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4230 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4231 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4232 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4233 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4234 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4235 passed through if needed.
4236
423742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4238 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4239 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4240 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4241 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4242 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4243
424443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4245 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4246 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4247 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4248 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4249
425044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4251 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4252 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4253 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4254 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4255
425645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4257 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4258 noticed.
4259
426046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4261 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4262 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4263 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4264 mayhem of various kinds.
4265
426647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4267 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4268 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4269 the right test for positive values.
4270
427148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4272 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4273 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4274 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4275 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4276 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4277 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4278 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4279 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4280 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4281 envelope.
4282
428349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4284 module.
4285
428650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4287 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4288 forbidding it.
4289
429051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4291 the existing equality matching.
4292
429352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4294 dealing with inode numbers.
4295
429653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4297 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4298 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4299
430054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4301 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4302 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4303 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4304 local_scan().
4305
430655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4307 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4308 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4309 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4310 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4311 relay addresses has also been removed.
4312
431356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4314
431557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4316 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4317 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4318
431958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4320 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4321 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4322 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4323 processing applies to CR:
4324
4325 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4326 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4327
4328 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4329 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4330 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4331 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4332
433359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4334 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4335 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4336
433760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4338 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4339 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4340 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4341 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4342 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4343 arisen.
4344
434561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4346 program routers.
4347
434862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4349 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4350 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4351 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4352 adds:
4353
4354 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4355
4356 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4357
4358 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4359
436063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4361 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4362 not considered personal.
4363
436464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4365
436665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4367
436866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4369
437067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4371 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4372 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4373 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4374 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4375 header lines, and spool format errors.
4376
437768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4378 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4379 for more flexibility.
4380
438169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4382 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4383 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4384
438570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4386 Sabourenkov.
4387
438871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4389 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4390 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4391 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4392 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4393 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4394 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4395 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4396 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4397
439872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4399 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4400 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4401 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4402 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4403 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4404 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4405
440673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4407 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4408 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4409
441074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4411 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4412 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4413 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4414 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4415 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4416 instead of killing the process with assert().
4417
441875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4419 than Unicode encoding.
4420
442176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4422 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4423 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4424 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4425
442677. Added process_log_path.
4427
442878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4429 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4430
443179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4432 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4433
443480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4435 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4436 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4437
443881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4439 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4440 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4441 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4442 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4443 were applied:
4444
4445 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4446 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4447 as invalid.
4448
444982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4450 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4451 they will be used during message reception.
4452
4453
4454Exim version 4.20
4455-----------------
4456
4457The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
4458
4459****