Reduce space used by flags in smtp transport
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
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13JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
22
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23JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
25
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26JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
28
0bd1b1ed 29JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 30 in rewrites and routers.
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32JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
34
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35JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
37
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38JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
39
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40JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
41 certificate).
42
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43JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
48
49JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
51
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52JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
57
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58JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
60
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61JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
62 Previously they were not counted.
63
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64JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
65 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
66 that needed the lookup.
67
803628d5 68JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a norml message arrival "<="; now
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69 distinguished as "(=".
70
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71JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
72 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
73
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74JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
75
76JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
77 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 78
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79JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quaratine results,
80 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
81
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82JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
83 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
84 compatible.
85
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86JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
87 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
88 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
89 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
90
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92Exim version 4.87
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94JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
95 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
96 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
97 client dropping the TLS connection.
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99TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
100 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
101
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102TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
103 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
104 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
105 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
106 outgoing I= field.
107
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108JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
109 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
110 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
111 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
112 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
113 check on the next write.
114
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115HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
116 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
117 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
118 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
119 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
120
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121JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
122 mime_regex ACL conditions.
123
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124JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
125 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
126 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
127
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128JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
129 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
130 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
131 an authenticate fail is not an error.
132
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133HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
134 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
135
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136JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
137 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
138
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139JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
140 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
141 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
142 distinct.
143
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144JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
145
146JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
147
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148JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
149
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150JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
151 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
152
98b98887 153JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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154 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
155
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156JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
157
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158JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
159 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
160
161JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
162
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163JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
164 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
165
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166JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
167
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168JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
169 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
170 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
171 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
172 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
173 they will retry in-clear.
174 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
175 at installation time.
176
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177HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
178 with the $config_file variable.
179
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180JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
181 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
182 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
183 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
184 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
185
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186GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
187 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
188 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
189 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
190 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
191
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192JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
193
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194JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
195 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
196 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
197 list order is no longer honoured.
198
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199JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
200 for DKIM processing.
201
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202JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
203 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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205JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
206 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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207 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
208 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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210JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
211 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
212
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213JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
214 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
215
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216JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
217 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
218
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219JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
220
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221JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
222 cached by the daemon.
223
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224JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
225 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
226
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227JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
228 keys are given for lookup.
229
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230JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
231 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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232 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
233 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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235JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
236 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
237 server-side so match that on older versions.
238
07c73177 239JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 240 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 241 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 242
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243JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
244 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
245
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246JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
247 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
248 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 249 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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250 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
251 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
252 initial truncated version.
253
ab9152ff 254JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
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256JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
257
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258JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
259 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
260
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261JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
262
bc3c7bb7 263HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 264
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265JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
266 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
267 induced overflows.
268
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269JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
270 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
271 stage.
272
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273JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
274 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
275
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276JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
277 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
278 former class.
279
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280JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
281 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
282 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
283
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284JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
285 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
286 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
287 extraction. Accept either.
288
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293JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
294 expanded.
295
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296JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
297
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298JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
299 it.
300
01a4a5c5 301JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 302 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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303 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
304 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
305
cb1d7830 306JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 307 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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308 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 310JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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311 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
312 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
313 TLS connections
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315JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
316 sites use this now.
317
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318JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
319 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
320 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
321 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
322 have a dsn_lasthop option.
323
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324JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
325 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 326 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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328JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
329
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330JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
331 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
332
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333JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
334 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
335
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336JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
337 /defer_ok option.
338
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339JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
340 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
341
fd4d8871 342JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 343 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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344 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
345
346JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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347 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
348 specify a port-range.
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350JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
351 timeout value per server.
352
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353JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
354 now have the list separator specified.
355
8a512ed5 356JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 357 option values.
8a512ed5 358
82c0c8ea 359JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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360 under OpenSSL.
361
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362JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
363
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364JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
365 rather than the verbs used.
366
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367JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
368 from 255 to 1024 chars.
369
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370JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
371
cfab9d68 372HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 373 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 374
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375JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
376 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
377
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378HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
379 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
380
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381JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
382
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383JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
384
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385JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
386 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
387 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
388 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
389
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390JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
391
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392JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
393 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
394
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395JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
396 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
397
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398JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
399
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400JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
401
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402JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
403
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404JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
405 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
406
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407JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
408 added for tls authenticator.
409
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410HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
411
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415TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
416 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
417 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
418 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
419 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
420 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
421 the script parsing/test process like normal.
422
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423TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
424 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
425 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
426 function when detected.
427
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428JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
429 cause callback expansion.
430
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431TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
432 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
433 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
434 instead of bool when processing it.
435
0f06b4f2 436JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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437 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
438
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439JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
440
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441JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
442
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443TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
444
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445TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
446 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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448JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
449 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
450 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
451 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
452 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
453 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
454
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455JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
456 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
457 exceeded it.
458
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459JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
460 version 3.3.6 or later.
461
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462JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
463 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
464 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 465 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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466 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
467 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
468 option is defined.
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470TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
471 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
472
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473JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
474 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
475 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
476 matches.
477
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478JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
479 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
480 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
481
ad4c5ff9
JH
482JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
483 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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484
485JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
486 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
487 syntax errors.
488
3394b36a 489JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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490
491JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
492 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
493
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494TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
495 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
496 tarball.
497
ad4c5ff9
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498JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
499
500JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
501 Bug 1561.
502
503JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
504 output list separator was used.
505
8bc732e8 506
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507Exim version 4.84
508-----------------
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509TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
510 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
511 return.
1f0ebb98 512
a612424f
JH
513JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
514 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
515
516JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
517
518TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 519 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 520
1f0ebb98 521
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522Exim version 4.83
523-----------------
524
525TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
526
527 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
528 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
529 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
530 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
531 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
532 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
533
7245734e
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534TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
535 utilities have not been installed.
536
fd5dad68
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537JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
538 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
539
5428a946
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540TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
541 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
542
a3c86431
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543TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
544 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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545 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
546 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 547
aa26e137
JH
548JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
549
5a1b8443
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550TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
551 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
552
72c9e342
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553PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
554 not dns_use_dnssec.
555
76f44207
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556JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
557
770747fd
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558TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
559 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
560 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
561
8ddef691 562TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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563 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
564 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
565 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
566 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 567 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 568
b9c2e32f
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569JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
570
e45a1c37
JH
571JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
572 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
573
67d81c10
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574JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
575 failed delivery.
576
b1f8e4f8
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577JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
578
511a6c14 579JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
580
581JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
582 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 583
51c7471d
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584JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
585 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
586
3695be34
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587TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
588
1e06383a
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589JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
590
76146973
JH
591JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
592 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
593
594 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
595 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
596 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
597
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598TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
599 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
600 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
601 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 602
35aba663
JH
603JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
604
8c51eead 605JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
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606 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
607 lookup).
8c51eead 608
deae092e
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609TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
610 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
611 Schlichting.
35aba663 612
fd3b6a4a 613JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 614 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 615
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616TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
617 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
618
2b4a568d
JH
619JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
620
d2af03f4
HS
621TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
622 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
623 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
624
9d1c15ef
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625JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
626 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
627
44662487
JH
628JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
629 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
630 hosts_request_ocsp.
631
ed3bba5f 632JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 633 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 634 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 635
8ccd00b1
JH
636JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
637
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638TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
639 Christian Aistleitner.
640
f2de3a33
JH
641JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
642
6eb02f88
TL
643TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
644 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
645
00bff6f6
JH
646JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
647 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
648
071c51f7
JH
649JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
650 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
651
a6d4c44e
TF
652TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
653 support and error reporting did not work properly.
654
3ae173e7
ACK
655TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
656 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
657
c13d09b8
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658TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
659 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
660 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
661
0df4ab80
JH
662JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
663
66be95e0
PP
664PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
665 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
666 Jasper Wallace.
667
1bd0d12b
JH
668JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
669
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670TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
671 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
672 CVE-2014-2972
673
fd3b6a4a 674
2c422e6f 675Exim version 4.82
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676-----------------
677
678PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
679
12f69989
PP
680PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
681 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
682
54c90be1
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683PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
684 by GnuTLS.
685
1f4a55da
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686PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
687 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
688 routines.
689
13363eba 690PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 691
66645890 692PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
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693 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
694 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
695 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
696 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 697
a3fb9793 698PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
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699 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
700 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
701 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 702 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 703 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 704
d27f98fe 705TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 706
6822b909
TL
707TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
708
e7568d51
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709TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
710 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
711
ae0e32ee 712TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 713 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 714 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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715
716TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 717
e2658fff
TL
718TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
719
83712b39
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720TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
721 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
722
976b7e9f
JH
723JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
724
be4a1376
JH
725JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
726
ec4b68e5
PP
727PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
728
d7148a07
NM
729NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
730 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 731
585121e2 732JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 733
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734PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
735 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
736 function.
a5f239e4 737
13d08c90
PP
738PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
739 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
740
bef3ea7f
JH
741JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
742 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
743 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 744
846726c5
JH
745JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
746
3a796370
JH
747JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
748
ea722490 749JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
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750 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
751
b1b05573
JH
752JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
753 Bugzilla 884.
754
362145b5
JH
755JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
756 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
757
3c0a92dc
JH
758JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
759 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
760
6d7c6175
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761PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
762 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 763 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 764
6f123593
JH
765JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
766 authenticators.
767
c8e2fc1e
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768JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
769 for control.
770
005ac57f
PP
771PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
772
3f1df0e3
PP
773PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
774 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
775 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
776 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
777
67bd1ab3
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778TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
779
780 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
781 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
782 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
783 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
784 the retry rules.
785
786 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
787 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
788 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
789
790 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
791 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
792 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
793 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
794
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795 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
796 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
797 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
798 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
799 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
800 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
801 delivery, as in LMTP.
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802
803 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
804 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
805
326cdc37
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806TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
807
808 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
809
810 Resent-From: f
811
812 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
813 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
814 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
815 username as equal to the username.
816
817 This change corrects that bug.
818
f62514b3
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819GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
820 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
821 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
822
eb505532
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823TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
824
14c7b357
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825PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
826 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
827 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
828 NULL dereference and crash.
829
94eaf700
PP
830JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
831
6f5a440a
PP
832PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
833 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
834 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
835
514ee161
SC
836SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
837
fd98a5c6
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838JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
839 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
840 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
841 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
842 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
843 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
844 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
845 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
846 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
847 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
848 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
849
035c7f1e
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850PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
851 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
852
ff284120
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853PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
854 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
855 Bugzilla 880.
856
26e72755
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857PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
858 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
859 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
860 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
861 an empty string is now equivalent.
862
0fbd9bff
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863PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
864 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
865 not performing validation itself.
866
700d22f3
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867PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
868 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
869
fcc8e047
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870JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
871 Bugzilla 321, 823.
872
7142daca
PP
873TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
874
8c020188
PP
875PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
876 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
877 other false fix of the same issue.
878 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
879 Bugzilla 1363.
880
d13cdd30
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881PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
882 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
883
e2fbf4a2
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884PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
885 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
886 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
887
f4c1088b
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888PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
889 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
890 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
891
c5c2182f
PP
892TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
893
73431ca9
JH
894JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
895
2d07a215
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896TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
897 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
898
a30a8861
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899TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
900 Alexander Miroch.
901
33382dd9
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902TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
903 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
904 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
905 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
906 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 907
046172e6
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908TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
909 the src/util/ subdirectory.
910
581d7bee 911TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 912 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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913 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
914
915TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
916 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
917 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
918 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
919
237b2cf2
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920TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
921
9fc5a352
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922TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
923 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
924 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 925
b10e4ec2
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926TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
927
e2cebd74
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928TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
929 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
930 interaction.
931
932TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
933 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
934
2519e60d
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935TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
936 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
937
e78e6ecf 938
4263f395
PP
939Exim version 4.80.1
940-------------------
941
942PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
943 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 944 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 945
ea722490 946
b1770b6e 947Exim version 4.80
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949
950PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
951 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
952 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
953
23c7e742
NM
954NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
955
b322aac8
NM
956NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
957 improved.
958
4a891427
NM
959NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
960
c1e794ba 961PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 962
97753960
PP
963PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
964
965PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
966 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
967
df6303fa
PP
968PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
969 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
970
7e6a8985
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971PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
972 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
973
f1e05cc7 974PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
975 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
976 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 977
4c287009
PP
978PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
979
b98bb9ac
PP
980PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
981 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
982
4a6a987a
PP
983PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
984
c45dd180 985PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 986
7db8d074
PP
987PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
988 non-compliant senders.
989 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
990
eae0036b 991NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 992 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
993 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
994
dec5017e
PP
995PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
996 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
997 in spool file corruption.
998
c80c5570
PP
999PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1000 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1001 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1002 "Got SSL error 2".
1003
076b11e2
PP
1004TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1005 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1006 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1007
5407bfff
JH
1008JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1009 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1010
9e45c72b
PP
1011JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1012
e74376d8
PP
1013PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1014 diagnostics.
1015 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1016
da3ad30d
PP
1017PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
1018 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1019 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1020
7be682ca
PP
1021PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1022 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1023 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1024 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1025
ef840681
PP
1026PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1027 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1028
5bfb4cdf
PP
1029PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1030 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1031 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1032 resolver implementation change.
1033
c6e95d22
PP
1034PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1035 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1036
9cbad13b
PP
1037PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1038
9ee44efb
PP
1039PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1040
6a6084f8
PP
1041PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1042 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1043
12dd53c7
PP
1044PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1045 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1046
9e45c72b 1047JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1048 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1049
17c76198
PP
1050PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1051 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1052 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1053 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1054 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1055
53947857 1056PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1057
eae0036b 1058PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1059 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1060 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1061
9e45c72b 1062JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1063
7390e768
PP
1064PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1065 read-only, out of scope).
1066 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1067
08488c86
PP
1068PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1069 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1070 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1071 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1072
6475bd82
PP
1073PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1074
81f91683
PP
1075PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1076 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1077 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1078 real issues in debug logging.
1079
5779e6aa
PP
1080PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1081 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1082
3375e053
PP
1083PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1084 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1085 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1086
1087PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1088 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1089 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1090 problems.
3375e053 1091
9d26b8c0
PP
1092PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1093 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1094
57eb9e91 1095PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1096 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1097 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1098 needs to override this, it can.
1099
16880d1a
PP
1100PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1101 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1102 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1103
a799883d
PP
1104PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1105 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1106 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1107 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1108
3ecab157 1109PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1110
0599f9cf 1111
867fcbf5
PP
1112Exim version 4.77
1113-----------------
1114
1115PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1116 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1117
f1a29782
TF
1118TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1119
ab42bd23
TK
1120TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1121 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1122
0ca0cf52
TF
1123TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1124 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1125
921b12ca
TF
1126TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1127 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1128 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1129
1130 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1131 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1132 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1133 not safe for signals.
1134
1135 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1136 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1137 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1138 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1139 exiwhat.
1140
c99ce5c9
TF
1141TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1142
1143 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1144 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1145 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1146 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1147 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1148
1149 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1150 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1151 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1152 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1153 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1154 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1155
1156 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1157 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1158 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1159 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1160
1161 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1162 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1163 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1164 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1165
1166 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1167 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1168 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1169 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1170 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1171 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1172 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1173 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1174 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1175
1176 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1177 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1178 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1179 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1180
1181 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1182 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1183 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1184 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1185 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1186 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1187 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1188 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1189 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1190 details in the main documentation.
1191
3634fc25
TF
1192TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1193
792e8a19
TF
1194TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1195
5901f0ab
TF
1196TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1197 repository when doing development or release builds.
1198
7f2a2a43
PP
1199PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1200 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1201
061b7ebd
PP
1202PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1203 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1204 Bugzilla 97.
1205
e12f8c32
PP
1206PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1207
9e949f00 1208PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1209 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1210
1211PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1212 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1213
555ae6af 1214PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1215 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1216
1217PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1218 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1219
6f7fe114
PP
1220PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1221 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1222
c566dd90
PP
1223PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1224 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1225 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1226 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1227
d6cc7c78 1228PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1229 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1230 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1231
0d0e4455
PP
1232PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1233
3399bb60 1234PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1235
1236PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1237 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1238
0ca0cf52 1239
10906672
PP
1240Exim version 4.76
1241-----------------
1242
1243PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1244
754a0503
PP
1245PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1246 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1247
c0c7b2da
PP
1248PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1249
e97d1f08
PP
1250PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1251
084c1d8c
PP
1252PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1253 Bugzilla 1098.
1254
4e7ee012
PP
1255PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1256 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1257
c8d52a00
PP
1258TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1259 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1260
54e7ce4a
PP
1261PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1262 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1263
5ee6f336
PP
1264PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1265 Bugzilla 1104.
1266
c8d52a00 1267TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1268 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1269
1270TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1271 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1272 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1273 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1274
1275PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1276 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1277
10906672 1278
aa097c4c
NM
1279Exim version 4.75
1280-----------------
1281
4c9ef03a 1282NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1283 Bugzilla 1073
1284
7f3d9eff
TF
1285TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1286 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1287 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1288
159f52d2
TF
1289TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1290 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1291
0cc9542a
PP
1292PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1293 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1294 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1295
f7274286
PP
1296PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1297 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1298
7b797365
PP
1299PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1300 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1301
caacae52
NM
1302NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1303 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1304
09dcaba9
NM
1305NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1306 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1307
bc19a55b
PP
1308PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1309 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1310
bd4c9759
NM
1311NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1312 Fixes bug 943.
1313
b72aab72
PP
1314PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1315 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1316
2fe76745
PP
1317PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1318 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1319
76aa570c
PP
1320PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1321 SQL string expansion failure details.
1322 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1323
f1e5fef5
PP
1324PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1325 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1326
4d805ee9
PP
1327PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1328 extern declarations in function scope.
1329 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1330
cd59ab18
PP
1331PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1332 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1333 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1334 a kernel bug).
1335
332f5cf3
PP
1336PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1337 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1338
29cfeb94
PP
1339PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1340 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1341
660242ad
PP
1342PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1343 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1344
bc4bc4c5
PP
1345PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1346 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1347
2e64baa9
NM
1348NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1349 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1350 Dennis Davis.
1351
bddd7526
PP
1352PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1353
6bac1a9a
PP
1354PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1355
552193f0
NM
1356NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1357 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1358
1b587e48
TF
1359TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1360 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1361
aa097c4c 1362
8c07b69f
TF
1363Exim version 4.74
1364-----------------
1365
1366TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1367 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1368
c0ea85ab
TF
1369TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1370 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1371
0761d44e
TF
1372TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1373
0a349494
PP
1374DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1375 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1376 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1377
1378PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1379 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1380 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1381
fea24b2e
PP
1382PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1383 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1384 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1385 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1386
6545de78
PP
1387PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1388 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1389 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1390 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1391
1670ef10
PP
1392PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1393 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1394 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1395 arbitrary files.
1396
c0886197
PP
1397PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1398 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1399
b7487bce
PP
1400PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1401 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1402 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1403 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1404 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1405
8c07b69f 1406
97fd1e48 1407Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1408-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1409
1410PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1411 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1412 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1413
6901c596
PP
1414PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1415 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1416
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1417JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1418
77bb000f
PP
1419PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1420
a29e5231
PP
1421PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1422
ec5a0394 1423PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1424
55c75993
PP
1425PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1426
453a6645 1427PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1428 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1429 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1430 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1431
8544e77a
PP
1432PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1433 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1434 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1435 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1436 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1437
83e029d5
PP
1438PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1439
ed7f7860
PP
1440PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1441
7d9f747b
PP
1442PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1443
4b2241d2
PP
1444PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1445
10385c15
PP
1446PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1447
dbc4b90d
PP
1448PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1449
532be449
PP
1450PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1451
6a8de854 1452PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1453 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1454 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1455
5dc43717
JJ
1456JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1457
1458JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1459 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1460
3346ab01
PP
1461PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1462 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1463
491fab4c
PP
1464PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1465 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1466 Notification from John Horne.
1467
13eb9497
PP
1468PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1469 compatible.
1470
1471PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1472 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1473 it normally works.
1474
7f36d675
DW
1475DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1476 access.
1477
c1d94452
DW
1478DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1479 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1480 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1481
e2f5dc15
DW
1482DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1483 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1484 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1485 configuration file.
1486
cd25e41d
DW
1487DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1488 option (effectively making it always true).
1489
261dc43e
DW
1490DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1491 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1492
fa32850b
DW
1493DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1494 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1495
79d4bc3d
PP
1496PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1497 run-time user, instead of root.
1498
43236f35 1499PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1500 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1501
fb08281f
DW
1502DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1503 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1504 arguments.
3346ab01 1505
74935b98
DW
1506DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1507 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1508 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1509
90b6341f
DW
1510DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1511
57730b52
ML
1512NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1513
66581d1e 1514
465e92cf
JJ
1515Exim version 4.72
1516-----------------
1517
453a6645
PP
1518JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1519 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1520 typos
465e92cf 1521
453a6645
PP
1522JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1523 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1524 (Finput)
edae0343 1525
9bd3e22c
NM
1526NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1527 Patch from Alain Williams
1528
bb576ff7
NM
1529NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1530
5a1a5845
NM
1531NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1532 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1533
981a9fad
NM
1534NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1535 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1536
7fc497ee
NM
1537NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1538
1a41defa
JJ
1539JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1540
a466095c 1541NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1542 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1543
94a6bd0b
NM
1544TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1545
1546TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1547
1548MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1549 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1550 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1551
c1b141a8
NM
1552NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1553 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1554
b26eacf1 1555NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1556 Patch by Simon Arlott
1557
179c5980 1558PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1559 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1560
9bd3e22c 1561
7c6d71af
NM
1562Exim version 4.71
1563-----------------
1564
7d9f747b 1565TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1566
f013fb92
NM
1567NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1568
0eb8eedd
NM
1569NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1570
663ee6d9
NM
1571NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1572
177ebd9b
NM
1573NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1574
7c6d71af 1575
210f147e
NM
1576Exim version 4.70
1577-----------------
1578
cdd3bb85 1579TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1580 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1581
1582TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1583 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1584 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1585
1586TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1587 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1588 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1589
1590TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1591 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1592
210f147e
NM
1593NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1594 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1595 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1596 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1597
deafd5b3
NM
1598NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1599 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1600 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1601
089793a4
TF
1602TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1603
5f16ca82
TF
1604TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1605
dae9d94e 1606NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1607 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1608
7d9f747b 1609NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1610
06864c44
TF
1611TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1612 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1613 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1614 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1615
65a7d8c3 1616NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1617 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1618
23510047 1619TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1620
7d9f747b 1621NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1622
7d8eec3a 1623NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1624 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1625
89dec7b6
TF
1626TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1627 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1628
a99de90c
TF
1629TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1630 that they are available at delivery time.
1631
e2803e40
TF
1632TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1633
7199e1ee
TF
1634TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1635 incoming_port log selectors.
1636
e276e04b
TF
1637TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1638 setting expands to an empty string.
1639
ce552449 1640NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1641 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1642
e765a0f1 1643NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1644 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1645
4f054c63 1646NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1647 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1648
7d9f747b
PP
1649NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1650 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1651
7d9f747b
PP
1652NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1653 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1654
b52bc06e 1655NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1656 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1657
447de4b0
NM
1658NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1659
4c69d561 1660NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1661 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1662
d5c39246 1663NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1664 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1665
0b23848a
TK
1666TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1667
8f3414a1 1668NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1669 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1670
fb6f955d
NM
1671NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1672
1673NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1674
7d9f747b
PP
1675NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1676 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1677
7d9f747b
PP
1678NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1679 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1680
7d9f747b
PP
1681NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1682 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1683
7d9f747b
PP
1684NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1685 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1686
7d9f747b
PP
1687NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1688 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1689
7d9f747b
PP
1690NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1691 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1692
7d9f747b
PP
1693NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1694 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1695
7d9f747b 1696NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1697 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1698
7d9f747b 1699NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1700
7d9f747b
PP
1701NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1702 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1703
7d9f747b 1704NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1705
7d9f747b 1706NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1707
7d9f747b 1708NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1709
7d9f747b 1710NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1711
17792b53 1712NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1713 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1714
7d9f747b
PP
1715NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1716 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1717
91576cec 1718NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1719 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1720
7d9f747b
PP
1721NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1722 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1723
7d9f747b 1724NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1725
7d9f747b 1726NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1727
7d9f747b 1728NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1729
7d9f747b 1730NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1731
deafd5b3 1732
47db1125
NM
1733Exim version 4.69
1734-----------------
1735
4b3504d0
TK
1736TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1737 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1738 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1739
1740 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1741 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1742 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1743 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1744 build errors in sieve.c.
1745
81ea09ca
NM
1746NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1747 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1748 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1749
f13cddcb
SC
1750SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1751
7d9f747b 1752NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1753
7d9f747b 1754NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1755
7d9f747b 1756NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1757
1758
eb4c0de6
PH
1759Exim version 4.68
1760-----------------
1761
1762PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1763
6a3bceb1
PH
1764PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1765 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1766 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1767 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1768 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1769 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1770 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1771 for iplsearch lookups.
1772
1773 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1774 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1775 previously such lookups could never work.
1776
1777 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1778 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1779 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1780
2e30fa9d
TK
1781TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1782 version.
1783
0806a9c5
MH
1784MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1785 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1786 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1787 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1788 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1789 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1790
ae276964
TK
1791TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1792 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1793
0f2cbd1b
MH
1794MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1795 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1796 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1797 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1798 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1799 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1800
2b85bce7
PH
1801PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1802 local_scan API.
1803
93655c46
PH
1804PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1805
6c512171
PH
1806PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1807 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1808 encrypted.
1809
1810PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1811 by clients under certain conditions.
1812
aa6dc513
PH
1813PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1814 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1815
a96603a0
PH
1816PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1817
8f240103
PH
1818PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1819 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1820
1821PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1822
d677b2f2
PH
1823PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1824
d52120f2
PH
1825PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1826
64f2600a
PH
1827PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1828 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1829
8669f003
PH
1830PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1831
a4dc33a8
PH
1832PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1833 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1834
d6a60c0f
PH
1835PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1836
8f128379
PH
1837PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1838
8932dffe
PH
1839PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1840 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1841 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1842 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1843
ddea74fa 1844PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1845 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1846 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1847
ddea74fa 1848PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1849 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1850
ddea74fa
PH
1851PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1852
ce9f225c
PH
1853PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1854
19897d52
PH
1855PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1856
bc64a74d
PH
1857PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1858 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1859 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1860
eb4c0de6 1861
b4ed4da0
PH
1862Exim version 4.67
1863-----------------
1864
22ad45c9
MH
1865MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1866 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1867 Jan Srzednicki.
1868
b4ed4da0
PH
1869PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1870 issue a MAIL command.
1871
431b7361
PH
1872PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1873
1874 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1875
1876 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1877 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1878 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1879 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1880 item. This has been fixed.
1881
1882PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1883 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1884
83da1223
PH
1885PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1886 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1887
54fc8428
PH
1888PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1889 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1890 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1891
34c5e8dd
SC
1892SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1893
bbe15da8
PH
1894PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1895 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1896 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1897 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1898 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1899
0e8a9471
MH
1900MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1901 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1902 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1903
f0872424
PH
1904PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1905 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1906 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1907 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1908
b01dd148
PH
1909PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1910
6bf342e1
PH
1911PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1912
273f34d0
PH
1913PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1914 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1915 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1916 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1917 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1918
cf8b11a5
PH
1919PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1920
41c7c167
PH
1921PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1922 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1923 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1924 values).
1925
9c57cbc0
PH
1926PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1927
f3f065bb
PH
1928PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1929
047bdd8c
PH
1930PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1931
0ce9abe6
PH
1932PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1933
0e22dfd1
PH
1934PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1935
4c590bd1
PH
1936PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1937 no_callout_flush is set.
1938
09945f1e
PH
1939PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1940 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1941 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1942 fixed.
1943
c51b8e75
PH
1944PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1945
e28326d8
PH
1946PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1947 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1948 other ACL rejections are.
1949
75b1493f
PH
1950PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1951 with slight modification.
1952
7c5214ec
PH
1953PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1954 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1955
4311097e
PH
1956PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1957 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1958 connection.
1959
29f89cad
PH
1960PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1961 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1962
5e687460
SC
1963SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1964
c3611384
PH
1965PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1966 expansion side effects.
1967
5a11a7b4
PH
1968PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1969 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1970 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1971 be the same.
1972
0e20aff9
MH
1973MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1974 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1975 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1976
ca86f471
PH
1977PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1978 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1979 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1980 were accidentally chopped off.
1981
a14e5636
PH
1982PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1983 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1984 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1985 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1986 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1987 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1988 pipelining has not been advertised.
1989
ec95d1a6
PH
1990PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1991
42855d71
PH
1992PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1993 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1994 This has been fixed.
1995
57c2c631
PH
1996PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1997 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1998 reported on Solaris.
1999
58c01c94
PH
2000PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2001 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2002 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2003 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2004 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2005 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2006 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2007
dee5a20a
PH
2008PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2009 cpus.
2010
d2ee6114
PH
2011PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2012
b2d5182b
PH
2013PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2014
79749a79
PH
2015PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2016 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2017 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2018 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2019 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2020 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2021
c456d9bb
PH
2022PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2023 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2024 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2025 host_all_ignored option.
2026
cd9868ec
PH
2027PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2028 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2029 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2030 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2031 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2032 is what is supposed to happen).
2033
ebeaf996
PH
2034PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2035 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2036 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2037 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2038 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2039 uses the Exim user.
2040
2679d413
PH
2041PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2042 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2043 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2044 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2045 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2046 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2047 users.
2048
84024b72
PH
2049PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2050
8005d38e
SC
2051SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2052 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2053 (Jez Hancock).
2054 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2055 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2056
3298c6c6
SC
2057SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2058
a43a27c5
PH
2059PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2060
58eb016e 2061PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2062 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2063 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2064 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2065 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2066 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2067 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2068 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2069 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2070 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2071 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2072
b43a74ea
PH
2073PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2074 advertised in response to EHLO.
2075
b4ed4da0 2076
5dd1517f
PH
2077Exim version 4.66
2078-----------------
2079
2080PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2081 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2082
2083 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2084 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2085
2086 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2087 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2088 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2089
2090 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2091 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2092 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2093 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2094 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2095
2096
93cfa765
TK
2097Exim version 4.65
2098-----------------
2099
2100TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2101 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2102 versions. (#438)
2103
d6066548
MH
2104MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2105 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2106 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2107
4362ff0d
PH
2108PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2109 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2110 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2111 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2112 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2113 rather than extend the field.
2114
93cfa765 2115
944e9e9c
TF
2116Exim version 4.64
2117-----------------
aa41d2de 2118
21d74bd9
TK
2119TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2120 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2121 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2122 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2123 these files.
2124
2125TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2126 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2127 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2128
2129TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2130 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2131 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2132
2133TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2134 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2135 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2136 in the field name.
2137
2b1c6e3a
PH
2138PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2139 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2140 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2141 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2142 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2143 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2144 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2145 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2146 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2147 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2148 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2149
1f872c80
PH
2150PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2151 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2152
2153PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2154 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2155 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2156 ignores EPIPE as well.
2157
d203e649
PH
2158PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2159 (quoted-printable decoding).
2160
cc2ed8f7 2161PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2162 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2163
ddfcd446
PH
2164PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2165
d45b1de8
PH
2166PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2167
2168PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2169
38a0a95f 2170PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2171 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2172
a2405d83
JJ
2173JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2174 in 4.64-PH/09.
2175
2176JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2177 miscellaneous code fixes
2178
6ea85e9a
PH
2179PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2180 rejections.
2181
26da7e20
PH
2182PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2183 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2184 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2185 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2186 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2187 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2188 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2189 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2190
14aa5a05 2191PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2192 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2193 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2194 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2195 function.
2196 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2197 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2198 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2199 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2200 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2201 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2202 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2203 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2204 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2205
ff75a1f7
PH
2206PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2207 decoding.
2208
e6f6568e
PH
2209PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2210 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2211 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2212 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2213 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2214 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2215 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2216 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2217
d6f6e0dc
PH
2218PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2219 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2220 list.
2221
322050c2
PH
2222PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2223 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2224 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2225 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2226 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2227 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2228 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2229 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2230 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2231 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2232 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2233 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2234 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2235
08955dd3
PH
2236PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2237 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2238 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2239 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2240 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2241 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2242 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2243
1eccaa59
PH
2244PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2245 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2246 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2247 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2248 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2249 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2250 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2251 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2252 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2253 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2254
602e59e5
PH
2255PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2256 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2257 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2258 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2259 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2260
411ef850
PH
2261PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2262 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2263 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2264 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2265 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2266 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2267 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2268
7befa435
PH
2269PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2270 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2271 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2272 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2273 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2274 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2275 been verified.
2276
48da4259 2277PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2278 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2279 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2280 and authorization.)
2281
48da4259
PH
2282PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2283 if any retry times were supplied.
2284
d1d5595c
PH
2285PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2286 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2287 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2288
0ef732d9
PH
2289PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2290
328895cc
PH
2291PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2292
fd700877
PH
2293PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2294 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2295 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2296 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2297 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2298 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2299
8dce1a6f
PH
2300PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2301 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2302
17af4a17
PH
2303PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2304 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2305 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2306
2307PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2308 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2309 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2310 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2311 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2312 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2313 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2314 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2315 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2316
2317 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2318 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2319 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2320 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2321 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2322 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2323 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2324 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2325 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2326
2327 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2328 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2329 hammering the server.
2330
c1114884
PH
2331PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2332 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2333
7a0743eb
PH
2334PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2335
0d85fa3f
PH
2336PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2337 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2338 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2339
1bf43b78
PH
2340PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2341 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2342 one case where this was not true.
2343
520de300
PH
2344PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2345 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2346 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2347 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2348 fails.
2349
48c7f9e2
PH
2350PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2351 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2352 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2353 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2354 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2355 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2356 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2357 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2358 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2359 smtp transport.
2360
99ea1c86
PH
2361PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2362 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2363 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2364 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2365
a2042e78
PH
2366PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2367 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2368
4fbcfc2e
PH
2369PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2370 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2371 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2372
aa41d2de
PH
2373PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2374
af561417
PH
2375PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2376
3cc66b45
PH
2377PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2378
194cc0e4
PH
2379PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2380 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2381 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2382 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2383
a401ddaa
PH
2384PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2385 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2386
4e88a19f
PH
2387PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2388 be meaningful with "accept".
2389
d7d7b289
SC
2390SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2391 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2392
2393SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2394 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2395 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2396
2397SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2398 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2399 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2400 there is data to show.
2401 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2402
2403SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2404 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2405 as well as the number of messages.
2406
2407SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2408 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2409 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2410
2411SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2412 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2413 have a flag are now skipped.
2414
2415SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2416 Added the -emptyok flag.
2417
2418SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2419 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2420
0ea2a468
JJ
2421JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2422 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2423 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2424
2425JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2426 match 4.64-PH/13
2427
2428JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2429 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2430
2431JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2432
2433JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2434 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2435
8a10f5a4
PH
2436PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2437
30e18802
PH
2438PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2439 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2440 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2441 contravention of the specifications.
2442
55728a4f
PH
2443PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2444 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2445 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2446
d7837193
PH
2447PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2448 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2449 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2450
87054a31
PH
2451PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2452
ea2c01d2
MH
2453MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2454 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2455 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2456 some point in the past.
2457
e4fa6968
PH
2458PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2459 transport during callout processing was broken.
2460
56f5d9bd
PH
2461PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2462 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2463
922e1c28
PH
2464PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2465 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2466
21eb6e72
PH
2467PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2468 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2469
a0540757
PH
2470PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2471
944e9e9c 2472
478be7b0
SC
2473Exim version 4.63
2474-----------------
2475
2476SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2477 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2478
2479SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2480 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2481 there is data to show.
2482 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2483
2484SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2485 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2486
2b965a65
TF
2487TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2488 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2489
45b91596
PH
2490TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2491 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2492
c59f5781
TF
2493TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2494 submissions from trusted users.
2495
90fc3069
TF
2496TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2497 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2498
6083aca0
TF
2499TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2500 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2501 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2502 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2503 there is now a framework to start from.
2504
765b530f
PH
2505PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2506 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2507 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2508
4e167a8c
PH
2509PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2510
4608d683
PH
2511PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2512
b8dc3e4a
PH
2513PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2514
5418e93b
PH
2515PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2516 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2517 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2518
b4a9bda2
PH
2519PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2520 libradius.
2521
45b91596
PH
2522PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2523 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2524 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2525
5547e2c5
PH
2526PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2527 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2528 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2529 its arguments.
2530
dbcef0ea
PH
2531PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2532 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2533 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2534 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2535 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2536
25257489
PH
2537PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2538 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2539
c816d124
PH
2540PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2541
a9ccd69a
PH
2542PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2543 operations in malware.c.
2544
75fa1910
PH
2545PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2546 signatures.
2547
a7d7aa58
PH
2548PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2549 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2550 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2551 all.
2552
42119b09
PH
2553PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2554 statements to "add_header".
2555
41609df5
PH
2556PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2557 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2558
a5bd321b
PH
2559PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2560 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2561 latter.
2562
e85a7ad5 2563PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2564 so that it is now:
2565
e85a7ad5
PH
2566 ${if or { \
2567 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2568 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2569 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2570 }{no}{yes}}
2571
e85a7ad5
PH
2572 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2573 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2574
d8fe1c03
PH
2575PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2576 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2577
16282d2b
PH
2578PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2579 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2580 any possible encoding problems.
2581
35d40a98
PH
2582PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2583 but not after initializing Perl.
2584
034d99ab
PH
2585PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2586 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2587 apparently, which is not desirable.
2588
6ec97b1b
PH
2589PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2590 queries.
2591
e22ca4ac
JJ
2592JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2593 --not options
2594
2595JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2596
33d73e3b
PH
2597PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2598 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2599 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2600 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2601
9ecb03f3
PH
2602PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2603 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2604 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2605
084efe8d
PH
2606PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2607 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2608 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2609 0.12.
2610
366fc9f0
PH
2611PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2612 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2613 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2614 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2615 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2616
c59f5781 2617
c887c79e
TF
2618Exim version 4.62
2619-----------------
2620
2621TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2622 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2623
1cce3af8
PH
2624PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2625 patch).
2626
afb3eaaf
PH
2627PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2628 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2629 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2630 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2631 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2632 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2633 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2634 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2635 451 error is used.
2636
e173618b
PH
2637PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2638
dd16e114
PH
2639PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2640 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2641 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2642
f7fd3850
PH
2643PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2644 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2645 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2646 odd errors.
2647
d87df92c
PH
2648PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2649 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2650
7e9f683d
PH
2651PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2652 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2653 option (which defaults to 0600).
2654
bfad5236
PH
2655PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2656
01c490df
PH
2657PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2658 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2659 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2660 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2661 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2662 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2663 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2664
d6629cdc
PH
2665PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2666
1cce3af8 2667
214e2000
PH
2668Exim version 4.61
2669-----------------
2670
2671PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2672 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2673 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2674 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2675 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2676 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2677 addresses as local.
2678
f9daeae0
PH
2679PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2680 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2681
7e66e54d
PH
2682PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2683
c8ea1597
PH
2684PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2685 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2686 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2687 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2688 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2689 grumble.
2690
911f6fde
PH
2691PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2692 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2693
47ca6d6c
PH
2694PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2695 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2696 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2697 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2698 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2699
ed0e9820
PH
2700PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2701 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2702 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2703 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2704
eff37e47
PH
2705PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2706 be the same on different OS.
2707
1921d2ea
PH
2708PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2709 testing.
2710
b3f69ca8
JJ
2711JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2712 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2713
2714JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2715 in 4.61-PH/06
2716
424a1c63
PH
2717PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2718 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2719 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2720 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2721 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2722 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2723 bounce message.
2724
7a100415
PH
2725PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2726 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2727 when Exim was called.
2728
19b9dc85
PH
2729PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2730 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2731
309bd837
PH
2732PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2733 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2734 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2735 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2736
59e82a2a
PH
2737PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2738 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2739 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2740 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2741 changes:
2742
2743 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2744 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2745 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2746
2747 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2748 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2749 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2750
9edc04ce
PH
2751PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2752 feature).
2753
1349e1e5
PH
2754PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2755 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2756 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2757 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2758 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2759 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2760 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2761 values from the SRV records were lost.
2762
ea49d0e1
PH
2763PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2764 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2765 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2766
064a94c9
PH
2767PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2768 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2769 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2770
727071f8
PH
2771PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2772 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2773 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2774 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2775 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2776 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2777 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2778 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2779 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2780 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2781
f78eb7c6
PH
2782PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2783 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2784 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2785
21c28500
PH
2786PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2787 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2788
2789PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2790 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2791 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2792 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2793 is given.
2794
1688f43b
PH
2795PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2796 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2797 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2798
2799PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2800 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2801 PH/23 above applies.
2802
9675b384
PH
2803PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2804 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2805 (for which there is an explicit test).
2806
6a3f1455
PH
2807PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2808
dac79d3e
PH
2809PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2810 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2811 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2812 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2813 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2814
5977a0b3
PH
2815PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2816 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2817 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2818 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2819
c91535f3
PH
2820PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2821 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2822 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2823
0d46a8c8
PH
2824PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2825
278c6e6c
PH
2826PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2827
2cbb4081
PH
2828PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2829 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2830 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2831
3eef829e
PH
2832PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2833 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2834 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2835 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2836 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2837
1ab95fa6
PH
2838PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2839 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2840 the message gets confusing).
2841
230205fc
PH
2842PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2843 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2844 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2845 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2846
75e0e026
PH
2847PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2848 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2849 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2850 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2851 same order.
2852
2853PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2854 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2855 the different processes.
2856
145396a6
PH
2857PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2858
3cd34f13
PH
2859PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2860
11121d3d
JJ
2861JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2862 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2863
2864JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2865 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2866
2867JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2868 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2869 messages matching specified criteria.
2870
8def5aaf
PH
2871PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2872
929ba01c
PH
2873PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2874 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2875
2632889e
PH
2876PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2877 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2878 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2879 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2880 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2881 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2882 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2883 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2884 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2885 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2886
944a9c55
PH
2887PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2888 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2889 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2890
4a23603b
PH
2891PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2892
4730f942
PH
2893PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2894 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2895 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2896 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2897 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2898 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2899 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2900 the variable.
2901
30dba1e6
PH
2902PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2903 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2904
382afc6b
PH
2905PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2906
a86229cf
PH
2907PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2908
50c99ba6
PH
2909PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2910
d35e429d
PH
2911PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2912 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2913 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2914 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2915 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2916 size of the count of files.
2917
f90d018c
PH
2918PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2919
75def545
PH
2920PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2921 used in LMTP mode:
2922
2923 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2924 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2925 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2926 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2927
2928 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2929 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2930 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2931
2932PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2933 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2934 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2935 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2936 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2937
c46782ef
PH
2938PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2939 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2940
71fafd95
PH
2941PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2942 will now be deprecated.
2943
2c5db4fd
PH
2944PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2945
9cf6b11a
JJ
2946JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2947 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2948 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2949
2950JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2951 with very large, slow to parse queues
2952
2953JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2954
2955JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2956
898d150f
PH
2957PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2958 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2959 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2960 SMTP output lines.
2961
46218253
PH
2962PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2963 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2964 Sieve code now uses this.
2965
e97957bc
PH
2966PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2967 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2968
81e509d7
PH
2969PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2970 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2971
3d240ff7
PH
2972PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2973
b37c4101
PH
2974PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2975 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2976 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2977 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2978 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2979
79378e0f
PH
2980PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2981 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2982 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2983 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2984
e49c7bb4
PH
2985PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2986
d114ec46
PH
2987PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2988
f3d7df6c
PH
2989PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2990 is preferred over IPv4.
2991
715ab376
PH
2992PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2993 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2994 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2995 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2996 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2997 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2998 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2999
6b31b150
PH
3000PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3001 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3002 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3003
3004PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3005
d515a917
PH
3006PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3007 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3008 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3009 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3010 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3011 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3012 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3013 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3014 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3015 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3016 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3017
9b8fadde
PH
3018PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3019 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3020 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3021
214e2000 3022
5de37277
PH
3023Exim version 4.60
3024-----------------
3025
cc38ddbf
PH
3026PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3027
3028 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3029 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3030
3031 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3032 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3033 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3034
72fdd6ae
PH
3035PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3036
3037 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3038 not a single digit.
3039
3040 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3041 string.
3042
3043 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3044 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3045 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3046 silly things.
3047
3048 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3049 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3050
3051 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3052 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3053
cb741023
PH
3054PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3055 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3056 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3057
f174f16e
PH
3058PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3059 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3060
c25242d7
PH
3061PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3062 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3063
3064 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3065
3066 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3067 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3068 this:
3069
3070 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3071
82c19f95
PH
3072PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3073 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3074 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3075 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3076 identical. For example:
3077
3078 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3079
3080 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3081 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3082 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3083
d7ffbc12
PH
3084PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3085 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3086 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3087 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3088
9f526266
PH
3089PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3090 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3091 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3092 message.
3093
87fcc8b9
PH
3094PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3095
3096 o fixes some comments
3097 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3098 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3099 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3100 and documents the missing references header update
3101
3102 and most important:
3103
3104 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3105 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3106 result)
3107
456682f5
PH
3108PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3109 Electronic Mail") by including:
3110
3111 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3112
3113 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3114 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3115 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3116 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3117 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3118
3119 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3120
3121 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3122
3123 The auto-replied keyword:
3124
3125 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3126 message by an automatic process,
3127
3128 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3129
3130 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3131 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3132
3133 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3134 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3135 other messages.
3136
3e46c1aa
PH
3137PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3138 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3139
49826d12
PH
3140PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3141
eba0c039
PH
3142PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3143 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3144 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3145
a0d6ba8a
PH
3146PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3147 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3148 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3149
f0917727
PH
3150PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3151 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3152 and treats the condition as false.
3153
096fee00
PH
3154PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3155
024bd3c2
PH
3156PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3157 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3158 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3159 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3160 not changing the active code.
3161
3162 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3163 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3164
3165 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3166 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3167
df199fec
PH
3168PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3169 (Bugzilla #53).
3170
d27f1df3
PH
3171PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3172 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3173 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3174 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3175 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3176 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3177 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3178 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3179 the text comparison.
3180
96776534
PH
3181PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3182 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3183 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3184 The same fix has been applied.
3185
5de37277 3186
9a799bc0
PH
3187Exim version 4.54
3188-----------------
3189
3190PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3191 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3192 It now does.
3193
99a4b039
PH
3194PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3195 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3196
3197PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3198
4b233853
PH
3199PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3200 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3201 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3202 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3203 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3204
8857ccfd
PH
3205TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3206 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3207 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3208 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3209 or /domain=).
3210
433a2980
PH
3211PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3212 testing suite.
3213
3e46c1aa 3214
9a799bc0 3215
e3a311ba
TK
3216Exim version 4.53
3217-----------------
3218
3219TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3220 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3221
13b685f9
PH
3222PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3223
395ff96d
PH
3224PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3225
5b68f6e4
PH
3226PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3227 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3228 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3229
1ab52c69
PH
3230PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3231 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3232 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3233
b07e6aa3
PH
3234PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3235 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3236 operating systems.
3237
254e032f
PH
3238PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3239 ${stat: expansion item.
3240
3af76a81
PH
3241PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3242 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3243
2548ba04
PH
3244PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3245 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3246 file for comments.
3247
b6c6011d
PH
3248PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3249
cf39cf57
PH
3250PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3251 setting.
3252
f1513293
PH
3253PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3254 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3255
727549a4
PH
3256TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3257
af46795e
PH
3258PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3259 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3260 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3261 the end of the subprocess.
3262
d7b47fd0
PH
3263PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3264 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3265 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3266 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3267 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3268
ee744174
JJ
3269JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3270
b582ab87
PH
3271TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3272
41a13e0a
PH
3273PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3274 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3275
f625cc5a
PH
3276PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3277
3278PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3279
21f7af35
PH
3280PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3281 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3282 HP-UX compiler.
3283
31480e42
PH
3284PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3285
2d280592
PH
3286PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3287 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3288 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3289
7cd1141b
PH
3290PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3291 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3292
3293PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3294 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3295
750af86e
PH
3296PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3297 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3298
3299 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3300 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3301
3302 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3303 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3304 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3305 contributed by a Radius user.
3306
3307PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3308 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3309
4304270b
TK
3310TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3311 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3312
750af86e
PH
3313PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3314 available.
3315
64ffc24f
PH
3316PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3317 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3318 received.
3319
5dd9625b
PH
3320PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3321 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3322 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3323 header lines when this was not necessary.
3324
5591031b
PH
3325PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3326
ba18e66a
PH
3327PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3328 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3329 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3330 exists".
3331
9cec981f
PH
3332PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3333 -bV or -d is used.
3334
aa2b5c79
PH
3335PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3336 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3337 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3338 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3339
48a53b7f
PH
3340PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3341
1c59d63b
PH
3342PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3343
671012da
TK
3344TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3345
1509d3a8
PH
3346PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3347
3348PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3349 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3350 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3351 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3352 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3353 settings.
3354
3355PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3356
2fe1a124
PH
3357PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3358 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3359 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3360 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3361 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3362 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3363 which is clearly wrong.
3364
8800895a
PH
3365PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3366
ccfdb010
PH
3367PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3368 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3369 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3370 subsequently added.
3371
1130bfb0
PH
3372PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3373 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3374
ebcb507f
PH
3375PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3376
c35e155c
PH
3377PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3378 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3379
95d1f782
PH
3380PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3381 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3382
fd6de02e
PH
3383PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3384 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3385
58de37c5
PH
3386PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3387 recipients, not senders.
3388
261cf466
TF
3389TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3390 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3391
3ee512ff
PH
3392PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3393
e08c430f
PH
3394PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3395
bef5a11f
PH
3396PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3397 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3398 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3399 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3400
7546de58
TF
3401TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3402
e5d5a95f
TF
3403TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3404 clock is set back in time.
3405
2e88a017
TF
3406TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3407 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3408
a5f65aa4
TF
3409TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3410 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3411
e7726cbf
PH
3412PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3413 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3414 (see PH/47 above).
3415
a7fdad5b
TF
3416TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3417 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3418 header rewrites.
3419
6af56900
PH
3420PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3421 type ("H").
3422
0925ede6
PH
3423PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3424
66afa403
TF
3425TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3426 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3427 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3428
0154e85a
TF
3429TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3430 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3431 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3432 helo verification defer as a failure.
3433
16f12c76
PH
3434PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3435 actual error message.
3436
bbe902f0 3437
e5a9dba6
PH
3438Exim version 4.52
3439-----------------
3440
3441TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3442
22c3b60b
PH
3443PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3444 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3445 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3446 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3447
06a9b4b5
PH
3448TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3449
c1ac6996
PH
3450PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3451 can still be requested.
3452
9c7a242c
PH
3453PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3454 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3455 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3456 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3457
87ba3f5f
PH
3458TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3459 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3460 circumstances, but probably never did.
3461
3462PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3463 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3464 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3465 in the header line.
3466
29aba418
TF
3467TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3468
fe0dab11
TF
3469TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3470 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3471
11d337a4
TK
3472TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3473
3474TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3475
415c8f3b
PH
3476PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3477 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3478 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3479 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3480 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3481 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3482
958541e9
PH
3483PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3484 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3485 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3486 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3487 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3488 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3489
c206415f
TK
3490TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3491 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3492
2a4be8f9
PH
3493PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3494 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3495
1cba11c5
SC
3496SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3497 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3498
3499SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3500
3501SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3502
3503SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3504
3505SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3506
3507SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3508
3509SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3510
1005d00e
TK
3511TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3512
3513TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3514 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3515 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3516
3517TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3518 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3519 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3520 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3521
9b4768fa
PH
3522PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3523 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3524 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3525
3526PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3527 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3528 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3529 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3530
0d7eb84a
PH
3531PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3532 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3533 to be made).
3534
3535PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3536 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3537 should work with maildirs and everything.
3538
40727bee
TK
3539TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3540 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3541
554d2369
TF
3542TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3543 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3544
1f922db1
PH
3545PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3546 function for BDB 4.3.
3547
ef213c3b
PH
3548PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3549
8ac170f3
PH
3550PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3551 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3552 involved.
3553
b1c749bb
PH
3554PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3555 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3556 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3557 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3558 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3559 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3560
4aac9b49
PH
3561PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3562 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3563 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3564 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3565 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3566 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3567 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3568 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3569
294520c8
TK
3570TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3571 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3572 details.
3573
5bd022fe
PH
3574PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3575 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3576
90e9ce59
PH
3577PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3578 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3579 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3580 test. It is now used for both.
3581
5ea81592
PH
3582PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3583 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3584 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3585 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3586 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3587 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3588
c6c2dc1d
PH
3589PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3590 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3591 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3592 string_vformat().
3593
fffffe4c
PH
3594PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3595 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3596 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3597
9a26b6b2
PH
3598PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3599 experimental DomainKeys support:
3600
3601 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3602 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3603 the control was given.
3604
3605 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3606
4aee0225
PH
3607PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3608
32d668a5
PH
3609PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3610
8187c3f3
PH
3611PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3612 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3613 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3614 db.h files).
3615
ff790e47 3616PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3617 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3618 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3619 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3620 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3621 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3622 course.
ff790e47 3623
5417f6d1
PH
3624PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3625 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3626 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3627 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3628 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3629 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3630
59cf8544
PH
3631PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3632 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3633 do -d+all out of habit.
3634
e7ad8a65
PH
3635PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3636 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3637 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3638
ade42478
PH
3639PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3640 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3641 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3642 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3643 record types that Exim uses.
3644
182ad5cf
PH
3645PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3646 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3647 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3648 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3649 non-existent file that was broken.
3650
b0d9fc80
TK
3651TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3652 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3653
3654TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3655 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3656 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3657
3658TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3659
47c7a64a
PH
3660PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3661 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3662 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3663 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3664 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3665 same time.
3666
a388bce4
SC
3667SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3668 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3669 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3670 at a slight CPU cost.
3671
3672SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3673 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3674
3675SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3676 by Marc Sherman.
3677
0793e4ed
SC
3678SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3679
c58b88df
PH
3680PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3681 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3682
e7ad8a65 3683
7982096b
PH
3684Exim version 4.51
3685-----------------
3686
1a46a8c5
PH
3687TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3688 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3689
2f079f46 3690TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3691
3692TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3693
3694PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3695 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3696
3697PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3698 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3699 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3700 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3701 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3702 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3703 file.
3704
3705PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3706 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3707 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3708 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3709 these two options.
3710
3711PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3712 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3713 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3714 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3715 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3716 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3717 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3718 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3719
3720PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3721 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3722
3723PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3724 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3725 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3726 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3727 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3728 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3729
3730PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3731 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3732 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3733 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3734
3735PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3736 Finch).
3737
3738PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3739 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3740
49c2d5ea
PH
3741PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3742 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3743 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3744 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3745 message.
49c2d5ea 3746
bf759a8b
PH
3747PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3748
83364d30
PH
3749PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3750 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3751
7999bbd7
PH
3752PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3753 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3754 to what was transported.)
3755
7dbf77c9
PH
3756TF/01 Added $received_time.
3757
74e0617f
PH
3758PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3759 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3760 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3761 spamd_address settings.
3762
2f079f46
PH
3763PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3764 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3765 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3766 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3767 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3768
8c841523
PH
3769PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3770
7766a4f0
PH
3771PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3772 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3773 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3774 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3775 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3776
8b417f2c
PH
3777PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3778 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3779
901f42cb
PH
3780PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3781 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3782 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3783 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3784 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3785 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3786 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3787 for failure.
3788
f9b9210e
PH
3789PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3790 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3791 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3792 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3793 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3794 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3795 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3796 "input=".
3797
54cdb463
PH
3798PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3799
cf00dad6
PH
3800PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3801 driver and ACL definitions.
3802
acb1b346
PH
3803PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3804 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3805
c5ddb310
PH
3806PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3807 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3808 understands it better than I do:
3809
3810 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3811 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3812
3813 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3814 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3815 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3816 => three warnings about OTP not working
3817 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3818
3819 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3820 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3821 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3822 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3823 for each call.)
3824 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3825 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3826
3827 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3828 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3829 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3830
31619da6
PH
3831PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3832 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3833 specified.
3834
bebaf0fc
PH
3835PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3836 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3837 "Linux".
3838
475fe28a
PH
3839PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3840 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3841 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3842
3843 warn !verify = sender
3844 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3845
3846 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3847 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3848
7e8bec7a
PH
3849PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3850
3851 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3852 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3853
3854 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3855 nomenclature these days.)
3856
e4a89c47
PH
3857PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3858 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3859
5ca2a9a1
PH
3860PH/30 In these circumstances:
3861 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3862 . First host does not offer TLS;
3863 . First host accepts first address;
3864 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3865 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3866 . Second host accepts second address.
3867 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3868 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3869 address.
7e8bec7a 3870
c688b954
PH
3871PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3872 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3873 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3874 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3875 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3876
fed77020
PH
3877PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3878 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3879
7fe1560f
PH
3880PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3881 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3882
ebb6e6d5
PH
3883PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3884 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3885 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3886
9c4e8f60
PH
3887PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3888 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3889 overlooked.
3890
3891PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3892
d7174846
PH
3893PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3894 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3895 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3896 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3897 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3898 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3899 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3900
3901 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3902 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3903 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3904 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3905 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3906
3907 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3908 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3909 routed further.
3910
cfe75fc3
PH
3911PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3912 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3913 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3914 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3915 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3916 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3917
be22d70e
PH
3918PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3919
0612b098
PH
3920PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3921 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3922 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3923 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3924 printable escape sequences.
3925
2e0c1448
PH
3926PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3927 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3928 body only.
3929
447d236c
PH
3930PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3931 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3932 are as follows:
3933
3934 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3935 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3936 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3937 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3938 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3939
3940 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3941 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3942 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3943
d20976dc
PH
3944PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3945
f656d135
PH
3946PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3947 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3948 play with."
3949
2e2a30b4
PH
3950PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3951 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3952 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3953 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3954 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3955 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3956 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3957 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3958 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3959 the log output.
3960
9176e9f0
PH
3961PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3962 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3963 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3964 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3965 "make".
3966
7982096b 3967
bbe902f0
PH
3968A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3969----------------------------------------
3970
3971Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3972changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3973needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3974in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3975that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3976release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3977from 4.43.
3978
3979I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
39804.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3981those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3982historical information.
3983
3984
f7b63901 3985Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3986-----------------
3987
5fe762f6
PH
3988 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3989
139059f6 3990 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3991 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3992
7086e875
PH
3993 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3994 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3995 place.
3996
35af9f61
PH
3997 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3998 filter fails to execute.
3999
b668c215
PH
4000 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4001 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4002 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4003 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4004 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4005
a494b1e1
PH
4006 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4007
4008 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4009 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4010 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4011 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4012
c5fcb476
PH
4013 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4014 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4015 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4016 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4017 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4018
69358f02
PH
4019 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4020
5be20824
PH
402110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4022
eb2c0248
PH
402311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4024 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4025 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4026 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4027
2a3eea10
PH
402812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4029 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4030 sender verification.
4031
403213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4033 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4034
23c7ff99
PH
403514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4036
4deaf07d
PH
403715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4038 connection timeout.
4039
926e1192
PH
404016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4041 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4042
650edc6f
PH
404317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4044 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4045
2c7db3f5
PH
404618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4047 information about exactly what failed.
4048
3d235903
PH
404919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4050
7c7ad977
PH
405120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4052 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4053 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4054
981756db
PH
405521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4056 It is now set to "smtps".
4057
d4eb88df
PH
405822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4059 ignore_target_hosts.
4060
406123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4062 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4063 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4064 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4065 "[x.x.x.x]".
4066
7d468ab8
PH
406724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4068 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4069 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4070
407125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4072 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4073 wake it up if nothing else does.
4074
62c0818f
PH
407526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4076 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4077 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4078 end up negative.
4079
26034054
PH
408027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4081 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4082
af66f652
PH
408328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4084
90af77f4
PH
408529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4086 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4087 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4088 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4089 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4090 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4091 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4092 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4093
d8ef3577
PH
409430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4095 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4096 than one IP address.
4097
5cb8cbc6
PH
409831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4099 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4100 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4101 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4102
14702f5b
PH
410332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4104 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4105 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4106 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4107 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4108 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4109
063b1e99
PH
411033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4111 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4112 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4113 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4114
652e1b65
PH
411534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4116 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4117 respected.
4118
6f0c9a4f
PH
411935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4120 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4121 $sender_host_address.
4122
33397d19
PH
412336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4124 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4125 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4126 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4127 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4128 very small.
4129
7bb56e1f
PH
413037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4131
4132 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4133 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4134
ea3bc19b
PH
4135 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4136 just the host names, not the priorities.
4137
4138 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4139 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4140 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4141
ea3bc19b 4142 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4143 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4144
0bcb2a0e
PH
414538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4146 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4147 domain.
4148
2ac0e484
PH
414939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4150
4e1fde53
PH
415140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4152 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4153
de365ded
PH
415441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4155 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4156 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4157
f05da2e8
PH
415842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4159
d6453af2
PH
416043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4161
f7b63901
PH
416244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4163
416445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4165 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4166 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4167 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4168 because the tests only now provoked it.
4169
a444213a
PH
417046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4171 (this can affect the format of dates).
4172
0ec020ea
PH
417347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4174 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4175 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4176 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4177
b1206957
PH
417848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4179
418049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4181 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4182 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4183 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4184
26dd5a95
PH
418550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4186 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4187 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4188
343b2385
PH
418951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4190 autoreply.
4191
1c5466b9
PH
419252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4193 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4194 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4195 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4196 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4197 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4198 is going on).
4199
55ee9ee3
PH
420053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4201 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4202 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4203 the line.
4204
d38f8232
PH
420554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4206 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4207 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4208
4209 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4210 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4211 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4212 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4213 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4214 so I produce this patch..."
4215
3295e65b
PH
4216 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4217 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4218 is not defined.
4219
7102e136
PH
422055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4221 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4222 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4223 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4224 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4225
3ca0ba97
PH
422656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4227
c2bcbe20
PH
422857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4229 long debug lines gets shown.
4230
18ce445d
PH
423158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4232 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4233
1f5b4c3d
PH
423459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4235
4236 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4237 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4238 of $primary_hostname.
4239
b975ba52
PH
424060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4241 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4242 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4243 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4244 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4245 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4246 by change 4.50/55 above.
4247
4248 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4249 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4250 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4251 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4252 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4253 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4254 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4255
425661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4257 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4258 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4259 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4260
17ffcae7
PH
426162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4262 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4263
d95f9fdb
PH
426463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4265 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4266 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4267 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4268 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4269
86b8287f
PH
427064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4271 This has been fixed.
4272
60dc5e56
PH
427365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4274 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4275 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4276 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4277 the caching.)
4278
533244af
PH
427966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4280
a5a28604
PH
428167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4282 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4283 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4284 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4285
7e634d24
PH
428668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4287 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4288
3e11c26b
PH
428969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4290 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4291 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4292
6729cf78
PH
429370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4294 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4295 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4296 message there.
4297
00f00ca5
PH
429871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4299 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4300 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4301
c9bdd01c
PH
430272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4303 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4304 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4305 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4306
d43194df
PH
430773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4308 during host lookups.
4309
fe5b5d0b
PH
431074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4311 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4312
4313 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4314
76a2d7ba
PH
431575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4316 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4317 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4318 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4319 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4320 background.
4321
432276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4323 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4324
04f7d5b9
PH
432577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4326 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4327 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4328
bc60667e
PH
432978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4330
bb6e88ff
PH
433179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4332 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4333 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4334 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4335 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4336 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4337 process earlier.
4338
1e70f85b
PH
433980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4340 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4341 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4342 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4343 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4344
434581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4346 tables).
4347
4e01f9d6
PH
434882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4349
1ee1cef2
PH
435083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4351 "vacation" handling.
4352
6e2b4ccc
PH
435384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4354 OS variants using glibc.
4355
8e669ac1
PH
435685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4357
495ae4b0 4358
bbe902f0
PH
4359----------------------------------------------------
4360See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4361----------------------------------------------------
4362
4363
4364Exim version 4.44
4365-----------------
4366
4367 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4368 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4369 transport
4370
4371 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4372 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4373 place.
4374
4375 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4376 filter fails to execute.
4377
4378 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4379 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4380 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4381 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4382 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4383
4384 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4385 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4386 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4387 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4388
4389 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4390 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4391 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4392 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4393 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4394
4395 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4396
4397 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4398 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4399 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4400 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4401
4402 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4403 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4404 sender verification.
4405
440610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4407 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4408
440911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4410 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4411
441212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4413 ignore_target_hosts.
4414
441513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4416 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4417 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4418 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4419 "[x.x.x.x]".
4420
442114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4422 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4423 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4424
442515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4426 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4427 wake it up if nothing else does.
4428
442916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4430 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4431 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4432 end up negative.
4433
443417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4435 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4436
ea3a6f44 443718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4438
443919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4440 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4441 empty pattern.
4442
444320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4444 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4445 one IP address.
4446
ea3a6f44
NM
444721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4448 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4449 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4450 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4451 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4452 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4453
ea3a6f44
NM
445422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4455 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4456 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4457
445823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4459 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4460 $sender_host_address.
4461
446224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4463
ea3a6f44
NM
446425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4465 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4466 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4467
446826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4469 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4470
ea3a6f44
NM
447127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4472 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4473
ea3a6f44
NM
447428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4475 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4476 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4477 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4478
447929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4480 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4481 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4482
ea3a6f44
NM
448330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4484 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4485 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4486 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4487
ea3a6f44
NM
448831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4489 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4490 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4491
ea3a6f44
NM
449231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4493 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4494
ea3a6f44
NM
449532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4496 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4497 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4498 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4499 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4500 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4501 is going on).
bbe902f0 4502
ea3a6f44
NM
450333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4504 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4505 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4506 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4507 CAN-2005-0021
4508
ea3a6f44
NM
450934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4510 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4511 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4512 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4513 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4514 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4515 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4516
4517 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4518 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4519 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4520 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4521 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4522 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4523 CAN-2005-0021
4524
ea3a6f44
NM
452535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4526 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4527 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4528 CAN-2005-0022
4529
ea3a6f44
NM
453036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4531 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4532 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4533 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4534 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4535
ea3a6f44
NM
453637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4537 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4538 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4539 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4540 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4541
ea3a6f44
NM
454238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4543 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4544 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4545 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4546 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4547
4548
495ae4b0
PH
4549Exim version 4.43
4550-----------------
4551
4552 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4553 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4554 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4555 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4556 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4557 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4558 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4559
4560 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4561 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4562 the delivery.
4563
4564 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4565
4566 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4567
4568 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4569 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4570 to local_scan().
4571
4572 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4573 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4574 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4575 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4576 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4577
4578 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4579 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4580
4581 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4582
4583 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4584
458510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4586 header_sender only.
4587
458811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4589 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4590
459112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4592 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4593 affecting debugging statements).
4594
459513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4596
459714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4598 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4599 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4600 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4601 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4602 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4603 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4604 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4605 after the received time, and all would be well.
4606
460715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4608 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4609 condition in an expansion string.
4610
461116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4612
461317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4614 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4615 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4616 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4617 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4618 job under whatever limits there are.
4619
462018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4621
462219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4623 space).
4624
462520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4626 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4627 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4628 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4629 return path is set.
4630
463121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4632 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4633 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4634 binary data in such strings.
4635
463622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4637
463823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4639 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4640 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4641 failure, which is pointless.
4642
464324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4644
464525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4646
464726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4648 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4649 Sender: header lines.
4650
465127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4652 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4653 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4654
465528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4656 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4657 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4658 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4659 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4660 happens.
4661
466229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4663 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4664 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4665 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4666 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4667
466830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4669 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4670 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4671 1024.
4672
467331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4674 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4675
467632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4677 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4678
467933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4680
468132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4682
468333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4684
468534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4686 syntax error.
4687
468835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4689
469036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4691
469237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4693 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4694 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4695 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4696
469738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4698 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4699
4700
4701Exim version 4.42
4702-----------------
4703
4704 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4705 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4706 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4707 it was not quoted.
4708 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4709 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4710 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4711 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4712 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4713 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4714
4715 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4716 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4717 verification failure".
4718
4719 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4720 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4721 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4722 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4723
4724 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4725 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4726 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4727 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4728 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4729 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4730 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4731 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4732 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4733 treated as a timeout.
4734
4735 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4736 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4737 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4738 not set for Exim filters).
4739
4740 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4741 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4742 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4743
4744 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4745
4746 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4747 try to make them clearer.
4748
4749 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4750 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4751
4752 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4753
4754 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4755
475610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4757 only the Cygwin environment.
4758
475911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4760 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4761 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4762 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4763 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4764
476512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4766 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4767 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4768 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4769 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4770 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4771 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4772
477313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4774 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4775
477614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4777
4778 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4779 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4780 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4781
4782 To: susanne@some.where
4783
4784 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4785 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4786 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4787 of addresses in From: header lines).
4788
4789 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4790 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4791 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4792
4793 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4794 treated as non-personal.
4795
4796 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4797 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4798
479915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4800
480116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4802
480317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4804 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4805 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4806
480718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4808 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4809
481019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4811 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4812 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4813 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4814 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4815 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4816
481720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4818 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4819 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4820 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4821 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4822 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4823 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4824 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4825
4826 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4827
482821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4829 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4830
483122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4832 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4833 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4834
483523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4836 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4837
483824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4839 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4840 rather than long int.
4841
484225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4843
484426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4845
4846
4847Exim version 4.41
4848-----------------
4849
4850 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4851 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4852 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4853 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4854 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4855 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4856
4857
4858Exim version 4.40
4859-----------------
4860
4861 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4862 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4863
4864 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4865 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4866 socklen_t is defined.
4867
4868 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4869 always exist.
4870
4871 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4872 configured.
4873
4874 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4875 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4876 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4877 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4878 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4879
4880 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4881 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4882 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4883 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4884
4885 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4886 of flapping under certain conditions.
4887
4888 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4889 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4890 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4891
4892 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4893
489410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4895
489611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4897 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4898 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4899 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4900
490112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4902 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4903 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4904 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4905 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4906 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4907 preserved with the message after it was received.
4908
490913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4910 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4911 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4912 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4913 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4914 test suite worked just fine.
4915
491614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4917 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4918 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4919
492015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4921 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4922 string.
4923
492416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4925 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4926 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4927 does not fully solve it.
4928
492917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4930 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4931 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4932 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4933 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4934
493518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4936 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4937 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4938
493919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4940 string, for example:
4941
4942 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4943
4944 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4945 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4946 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4947 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4948 the routers could not see them.
4949
495020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4951 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4952
495321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4954 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4955 output).
4956
495722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4958 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4959 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4960 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4961 that needed quoting.
4962
496323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4964 was not being matched caselessly.
4965
496624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4967 backslashes.
4968
496925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4970 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4971 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4972 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4973 when use_sender is false.
4974
497526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4976
497727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4978
497928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4980
498129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4982 the configuration file.
4983
498430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4985 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4986
498731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4988
498932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4990 bytes in the message body.
4991
499233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4993 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4994 delivery.
4995
499634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4997
499835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4999
500036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5001 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5002 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5003 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5004 another IP address.
5005
5006
5007Exim version 4.34
5008-----------------
5009
5010 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5011 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5012
5013 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5014 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5015 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5016 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5017 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5018
5019 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5020 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5021
5022 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5023 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5024 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5025
5026 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5027 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5028 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5029
5030 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5031 for routers.
5032
5033 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5034 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5035 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5036 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5037 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5038 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5039 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5040
5041
5042Exim version 4.33
5043-----------------
5044
5045 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5046 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5047 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5048 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5049 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5050 default (and expected) setting.
5051
5052 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5053 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5054 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5055 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5056
5057 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5058 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5059
5060 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5061 in domain lists.
5062
5063 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5064 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5065 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5066 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5067 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5068 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5069
5070 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5071 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5072 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5073
5074 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5075 part (NOT match_host).
5076
5077 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5078
5079 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5080 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5081 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5082 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5083 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5084 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5085 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5086 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5087 the same named file.
5088
508910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5090 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5091 when Exim is built.
5092
509311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5094 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5095 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5096 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5097 a host name.
5098
509912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5100 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5101 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5102
510313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5104
510514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5106
510715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5108
510916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5110 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5111
511217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5113 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5114 before starting the TLS session.
5115
511618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5117
511819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5119 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5120
512120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5122 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5123 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5124 colon in the middle).
5125
5126
5127Exim version 4.32
5128-----------------
5129
5130 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5131 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5132 multiple configurations are in use.
5133
5134 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5135 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5136 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5137 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5138 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5139 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5140
5141 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5142 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5143
5144 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5145 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5146 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5147
5148 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5149 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5150 occurs.
5151
5152 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5153 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5154
5155 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5156
5157 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5158 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5159
5160 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5161
5162 -prval:sval
5163
5164 is equivalent to
5165
5166 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5167
5168 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5169 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5170 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5171 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5172 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5173
517410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5175 Exim's behaviour:
5176
5177 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5178 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5179 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5180 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5181 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5182 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5183
5184 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5185 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5186 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5187 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5188 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5189 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5190 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5191 string.
5192
5193 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5194 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5195 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5196 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5197 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5198
519911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5200
520112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5202 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5203 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5204
520513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5206
520714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5208 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5209 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5210 information.
5211
521215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5213 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5214
521516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5216 Three changes have been made:
5217
5218 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5219 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5220 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5221 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5222 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5223
5224 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5225 been restored.
5226
5227 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5228 the modified behaviour.
5229
5230
5231Exim version 4.31
5232-----------------
5233
5234 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5235 Larry Rosenman.
5236
5237 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5238 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5239
5240 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5241 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5242 try to track down a specific problem.
5243
5244 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5245 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5246 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5247
5248 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5249 warning.
5250
5251 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5252 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5253 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5254 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5255 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5256 some earlier ones do not.
5257
5258 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5259
5260 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5261 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5262 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5263 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5264 address literals are enabled, of course).
5265
5266 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5267
526810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5269 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5270 by a command such as
5271
5272 exim -f "" ...
5273
5274 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5275
527611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5277
527812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5279 remained set. It is now erased.
5280
528113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5282 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5283
528414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5285 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5286 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5287 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5288 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5289 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5290 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5291 appropriate error code.
5292
529315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5294 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5295 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5296 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5297 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5298 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5299
530016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5301 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5302 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5303
530417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5305 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5306 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5307 terminate the header.
5308
530918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5310 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5311 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5312
531319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5314 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5315 (4.30/29). In particular:
5316
5317 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5318 imposed.
5319
5320 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5321 to write a maildirsize file.
5322
5323 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5324 the transport, the new value overrides.
5325
5326 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5327 count.
5328
532920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5330 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5331 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5332 space or a tab.
5333
533421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5335 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5336 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5337 the fallback hosts.
5338
533922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5340 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5341 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5342
534323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5344 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5345 using a union.
5346
534724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5348 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5349 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5350
535125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5352
535326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5354
535527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5356
535728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5358 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5359 become corrupted.
5360
536129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5362 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5363 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5364 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5365 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5366 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5367 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5368 too great.
5369
537030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5371 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5372 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5373 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5374 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5375 incorrectly.
5376
537731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5378 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5379 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5380 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5381 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5382 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5383 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5384 cached value only when the same options are set.
5385
538632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5387
538833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5389 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5390 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5391 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5392 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5393
539434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5395 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5396 it is clearly obsolete.
5397
539835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5399 transport.
5400
540136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5402 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5403 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5404 times.
5405
540637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5407 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5408 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5409 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5410 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5411
541238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5413 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5414 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5415 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5416
541739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5418
5419 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5420
5421 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5422 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5423 2^31.
5424
542540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5426 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5427 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5428 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5429 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5430 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5431 $localpart_data.
5432
543341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5434 with the -f command-line option.
5435
543642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5437 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5438 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5439 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5440 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5441 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5442
544343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5444 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5445 line.
5446
544744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5448 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5449 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5450 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5451 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5452 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5453 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5454 buffer is too small.
5455
545645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5457 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5458
545946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5460 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5461 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5462 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5463 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5464 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5465 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5466 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5467 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5468
546947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5470 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5471 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5472
547348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5474 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5475 ACL").
5476
547749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5478 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5479 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5480 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5481 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5482
548350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5484 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5485 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5486 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5487 is set.
5488
548951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5490
549152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5492
549353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5494 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5495
549654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5497 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5498 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5499
550055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5501 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5502 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5503 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5504 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5505
550656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5507 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5508 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5509 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5510 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5511 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5512 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5513
551457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5515 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5516 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5517 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5518 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5519 the test of how many are available.
5520
552158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5522 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5523 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5524 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5525 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5526 new message is started.
5527
552859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5529 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5530
553160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5532 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5533
553461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5535 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5536 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5537 is no long logged.
5538
553962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5540 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5541 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5542 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5543 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5544 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5545 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5546
554763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5548 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5549 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5550 interpreted as octal.
5551
555264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5553 setting.
5554
555565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5556 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5557 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5558 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5559 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5560 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5561
556266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5563 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5564 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5565 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5566
5567 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5568 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5569 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5570 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5571
5572 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5573 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5574 is a bug fix.
5575
5576 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5577 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5578
557967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5580
558168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5582 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5583 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5584 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5585
558669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5587 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5588 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5589 supplied", which is not helpful.
5590
559170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5592 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5593 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5594
559571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5596 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5597 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5598 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5599 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5600 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5601 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5602 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5603
560472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5605 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5606 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5607 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5608 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5609
561073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5611 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5612 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5613 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5614 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5615 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5616
561774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5618 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5619 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5620
562175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5622
562376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5624 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5625 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5626 variables.
5627
562877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5629
563078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5631 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5632 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5633 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5634 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5635 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5636 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5637 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5638
563979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5640 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5641 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5642 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5643 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5644
564580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5646 Haardt.
5647
564881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5649 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5650 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5651 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5652 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5653 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5654 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5655 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5656 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5657
5658
5659Exim version 4.30
5660-----------------
5661
5662 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5663 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5664 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5665
5666 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5667 fixed.
5668
5669 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5670 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5671 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5672
5673 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5674 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5675 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5676 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5677 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5678 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5679
5680 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5681 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5682 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5683 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5684 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5685 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5686 the Exim test suite.
5687
5688 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5689 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5690 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5691 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5692
5693 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5694 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5695 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5696 specify it in this variable.
5697
5698 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5699 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5700 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5701 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5702
5703 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5704 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5705 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5706 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5707
5708 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5709 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5710 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5711 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5712 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5713
5714 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5715
571610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5717 they are logged.
5718
571911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5720 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5721 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5722 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5723 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5724
572512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5726 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5727
572813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5729 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5730 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5731 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5732 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5733
573414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5735 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5736
573715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5738 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5739 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5740
574116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5742 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5743
574417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5745 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5746
574718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5748 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5749 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5750
575119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5752 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5753
575420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5755 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5756 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5757 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5758
575921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5760
576122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5762 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5763 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5764 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5765
576623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5767
576824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5769 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5770
577125. Added .include_if_exists.
5772
577326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5774 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5775 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5776 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5777 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5778 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5779
578027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5781
578228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5783 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5784 this.
5785
578629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5787
578830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5789 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5790
5791 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5792 550 Sender verify failed
5793
5794 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5795 the final line of the response.
5796
579731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5798 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5799 all other user lookups.
5800
580132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5802 delivery time.
5803
580433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5805 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5806 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5807 result into an int without checking.
5808
580934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5810 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5811 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5812
581335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5814 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5815 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5816 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5817
581836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5819 correctly.
5820
582137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5822 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5823
582438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5825 to the empty sender.
5826
582739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5828 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5829 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5830 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5831 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5832 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5833 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5834 panic log.
5835
583640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5837 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5838 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5839 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5840 used.
5841
584241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5843 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5844
584542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5846 timestamps.
5847
584843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5849 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5850
585144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5852
585345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5854 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5855 logs.
5856
585746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5858 as soon as it is encountered.
5859
586047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5861
586248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5863 rewritten to "<>".
5864
586549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5866 recognizes a tab character.
5867
586850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5869 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5870 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5871 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5872
587351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5874
587552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5876 crash.
5877
587853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5879
588054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5881
588255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5883 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5884 2822.
5885
588656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5887 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5888 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5889 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5890 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5891
589257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5893 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5894
589558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5896 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5897 list (.included file names were always shown).
5898
589959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5900 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5901 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5902 root at that time.
5903
590460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5905 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5906
590761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5908
590962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5910
591163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5912
591364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5914 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5915 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5916 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5917 failures to open the logs.
5918
591965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5920 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5921 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5922 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5923 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5924 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5925 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5926
5927
5928Exim version 4.24
5929-----------------
5930
5931 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5932 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5933 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5934 change 4.23/1.
5935
5936 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5937 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5938 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5939
5940 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5941 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5942 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5943
5944 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5945 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5946 causing some misleading effects.
5947
5948 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5949 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5950 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5951
5952 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5953 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5954 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5955 queue-runner function directly.
5956
5957
5958Exim version 4.23
5959-----------------
5960
5961 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5962 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5963
5964 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5965 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5966 was always written to the default place.
5967
5968 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5969 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5970 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5971
5972 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5973
5974 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5975
5976 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5977 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5978 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5979
5980 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5981 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5982 must start.
5983
5984 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5985 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5986 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5987
5988 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5989 command line option is disabled.
5990
5991 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5992 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5993
5994 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5995
5996 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5997
5998 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5999 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6000
600110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6002
600311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6004 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6005 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6006 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6007 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6008 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6009
601012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6011 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6012 timeout.
6013
601413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6015 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6016
601714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6018 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6019
602015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6021 received was valid base64.
6022
602316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6024 name of the variable that was being set.
6025
602617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6027
602818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6029 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6030 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6031 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6032 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6033 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6034
603519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6036
603720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6038 nor realm was specified.
6039
604021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6041 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6042 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6043 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6044
604522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6046 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6047 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6048
604923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6050 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6051 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6052
605324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6054 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6055 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6056 some systems use these upper case variants.
6057
605825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6059 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6060 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6061 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6062
606326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6064
606527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6066 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6067
606828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6069 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6070 expansion variable.
6071
607229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6073
607430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6075 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6076 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6077 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6078
607931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6080 using it.
6081
608232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6083 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6084 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6085
608633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6087 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6088
608934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6090 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6091 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6092 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6093
609435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6095 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6096 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6097
609836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6099
610037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6101 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6102 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6103 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6104 aborted.
6105
610638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6107 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6108 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6109
611039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6111
611240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6113 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6114
611541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6116 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6117
611842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6119 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6120 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6121 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6122 when emails are that large.
6123
6124
6125
6126Exim version 4.22
6127-----------------
6128
6129 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6130 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6131
6132 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6133 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6134 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6135
6136 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6137 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6138 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6139
6140 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6141 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6142 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6143 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6144 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6145
6146 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6147 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6148 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6149 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6150 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6151 ever.
6152
6153 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6154 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6155 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6156 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6157 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6158 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6159 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6160 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6161 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6162 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6163 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6164 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6165 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6166 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6167
6168 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6169 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6170 parameterised it.
6171
6172 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6173 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6174 error should be diagnosed.
6175
6176 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6177 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6178 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6179 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6180 appeared instead of "NULL".
6181
618210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6183 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6184 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6185 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6186 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6187 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6188 proceeds).
6189
6190 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6191 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6192 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6193
6194
6195Exim version 4.21
6196-----------------
6197
6198 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6199 or receiver verification errors.
6200
6201 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6202 name.
6203
6204 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6205 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6206 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6207 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6208
6209 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6210 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6211 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6212 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6213 shouldn't happen again.
6214
6215 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6216 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6217 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6218
6219 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6220 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6221
6222 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6223
6224 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6225 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6226
6227 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6228 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6229 RFC.
6230
623110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6232 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6233 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6234
623511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6236 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6237 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6238 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6239
624012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6241 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6242 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6243 to define what should happen).
6244
624513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6246 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6247 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6248
624914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6250
625115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6252
625316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6254 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6255
625617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6257 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6258 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6259 structure in all cases.
6260
6261 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6262 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6263 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6264 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6265
626618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6267 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6268 domain name.
6269
627019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6271 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6272
627320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6274 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6275
627621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6277 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6278 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6279
628022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6281 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6282 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6283
628423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6285 the book and for uniformity.
6286
628724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6288
628925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6290 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6291 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6292 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6293 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6294 non-existent command as the problem.
6295
629626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6297 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6298 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6299
630027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6301
630228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6303 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6304 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6305
630629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6307 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6308 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6309 timestamps using strftime().
6310
631130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6312 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6313
631432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6315 transport-time rewrites.
6316
631733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6318 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6319 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6320 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6321
632234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6323 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6324
632535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6326 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6327 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6328 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6329 comma and a space.
6330
633136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6332 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6333 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6334 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6335 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6336 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6337 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6338
633937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6340 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6341 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6342 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6343 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6344
634538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6346 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6347 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6348 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6349 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6350 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6351 remaining text gets split now.
6352
635339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6354 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6355 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6356 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6357
635840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6359 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6360 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6361 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6362 $return_path.
6363
636441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6365 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6366 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6367 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6368 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6369 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6370 passed through if needed.
6371
637242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6373 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6374 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6375 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6376 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6377 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6378
637943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6380 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6381 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6382 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6383 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6384
638544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6386 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6387 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6388 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6389 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6390
639145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6392 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6393 noticed.
6394
639546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6396 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6397 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6398 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6399 mayhem of various kinds.
6400
640147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6402 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6403 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6404 the right test for positive values.
6405
640648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6407 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6408 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6409 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6410 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6411 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6412 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6413 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6414 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6415 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6416 envelope.
6417
641849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6419 module.
6420
642150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6422 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6423 forbidding it.
6424
642551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6426 the existing equality matching.
6427
642852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6429 dealing with inode numbers.
6430
643153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6432 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6433 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6434
643554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6436 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6437 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6438 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6439 local_scan().
6440
644155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6442 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6443 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6444 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6445 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6446 relay addresses has also been removed.
6447
644856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6449
645057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6451 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6452 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6453
645458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6455 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6456 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6457 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6458 processing applies to CR:
6459
6460 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6461 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6462
6463 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6464 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6465 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6466 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6467
646859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6469 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6470 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6471
647260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6473 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6474 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6475 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6476 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6477 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6478 arisen.
6479
648061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6481 program routers.
6482
648362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6484 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6485 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6486 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6487 adds:
6488
6489 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6490
6491 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6492
6493 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6494
649563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6496 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6497 not considered personal.
6498
649964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6500
650165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6502
650366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6504
650567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6506 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6507 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6508 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6509 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6510 header lines, and spool format errors.
6511
651268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6513 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6514 for more flexibility.
6515
651669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6517 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6518 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6519
652070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6521 Sabourenkov.
6522
652371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6524 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6525 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6526 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6527 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6528 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6529 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6530 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6531 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6532
653372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6534 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6535 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6536 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6537 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6538 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6539 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6540
654173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6542 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6543 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6544
654574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6546 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6547 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6548 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6549 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6550 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6551 instead of killing the process with assert().
6552
655375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6554 than Unicode encoding.
6555
655676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6557 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6558 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6559 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6560
656177. Added process_log_path.
6562
656378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6564 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6565
656679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6567 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6568
656980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6570 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6571 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6572
657381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6574 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6575 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6576 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6577 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6578 were applied:
6579
6580 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6581 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6582 as invalid.
6583
658482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6585 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6586 they will be used during message reception.
6587
6588
6589Exim version 4.20
6590-----------------
6591
6592The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6593
6594****