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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
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10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
28 were a direct connection from the outside internet.
29
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30JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
31
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32TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
33 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
34
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35PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
36 not dns_use_dnssec.
37
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38JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
39
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40TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
41 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
42 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
43
8ddef691 44TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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45 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
46 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
47 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
48 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 49 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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51JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
52
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53JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
54 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
55
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56JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
57 failed delivery.
58
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59JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
60
511a6c14 61JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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63JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
64 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 65
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66JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
67 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
68
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69TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
70
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71JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
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73JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
74 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
75
76 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
77 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
78 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
79
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80TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
81 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
82 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
83 analysis.
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88PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
89
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90PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
91 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
92
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93PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
94 by GnuTLS.
95
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96PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
97 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
98 routines.
99
13363eba 100PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 101
66645890 102PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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103 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
104 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
105 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
106 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 107
a3fb9793 108PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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109 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
110 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
111 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 112 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 113 Bugzilla 1117.
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d27f98fe 115TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 116
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117TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
118
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119TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
120 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
121
ae0e32ee 122TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 123 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 124 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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126TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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128TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
129
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130TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
131 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
132
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133JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
134
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135JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
136
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137PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
138
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139NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
140 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 141
585121e2 142JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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144PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
145 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
146 function.
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148PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
149 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
150
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151JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
152 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
153 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 154
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155JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
156
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157JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
158
ea722490 159JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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160 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
161
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162JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
163 Bugzilla 884.
164
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165JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
166 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
167
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168JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
169 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
170
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171PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
172 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 173 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 174
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175JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
176 authenticators.
177
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178JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
179 for control.
180
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181PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
182
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183PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
184 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
185 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
186 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
187
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188TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
189
190 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
191 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
192 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
193 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
194 the retry rules.
195
196 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
197 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
198 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
199
200 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
201 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
202 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
203 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
204
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205 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
206 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
207 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
208 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
209 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
210 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
211 delivery, as in LMTP.
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213 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
214 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
215
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216TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
217
218 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
219
220 Resent-From: f
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222 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
223 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
224 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
225 username as equal to the username.
226
227 This change corrects that bug.
228
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229GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
230 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
231 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
232
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233TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
234
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235PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
236 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
237 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
238 NULL dereference and crash.
239
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240JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
241
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242PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
243 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
244 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
245
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246SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
247
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248JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
249 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
250 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
251 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
252 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
253 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
254 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
255 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
256 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
257 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
258 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
259
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260PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
261 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
262
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263PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
264 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
265 Bugzilla 880.
266
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267PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
268 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
269 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
270 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
271 an empty string is now equivalent.
272
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273PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
274 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
275 not performing validation itself.
276
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277PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
278 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
279
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280JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
281 Bugzilla 321, 823.
282
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283TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
284
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285PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
286 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
287 other false fix of the same issue.
288 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
289 Bugzilla 1363.
290
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291PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
292 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
293
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294PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
295 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
296 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
297
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298PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
299 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
300 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
301
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302TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
303
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304JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
305
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306TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
307 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
308
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309TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
310 Alexander Miroch.
311
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312TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
313 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
314 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
315 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
316 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 317
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318TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
319 the src/util/ subdirectory.
320
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321TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
322 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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323 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
324
325TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
326 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
327 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
328 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
329
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330TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
331
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332TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
333 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
334 from multiple comments on this bug.
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336TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
337
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338TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
339 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
340 interaction.
341
342TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
343 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
344
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345TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
346 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
347
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352PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
353 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 354 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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b1770b6e 357Exim version 4.80
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360PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
361 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
362 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
363
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364NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
365
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366NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
367 improved.
368
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369NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
370
c1e794ba 371PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
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373PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
374
375PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
376 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
377
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378PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
379 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
380
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381PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
382 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
383
f1e05cc7 384PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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385 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
386 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 387
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388PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
389
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390PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
391 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
392
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393PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
394
c45dd180 395PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 396
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397PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
398 non-compliant senders.
399 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
400
eae0036b 401NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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402 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
403 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
404
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405PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
406 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
407 in spool file corruption.
408
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409PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
410 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
411 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
412 "Got SSL error 2".
413
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414TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
415 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
416 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
417
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418JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
419 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
420
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421JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
422
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423PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
424 diagnostics.
425 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
426
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427PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
428 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
429 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
430
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431PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
432 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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433 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
434 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 435
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436PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
437 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
438
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439PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
440 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
441 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
442 resolver implementation change.
443
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444PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
445 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
446
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447PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
448
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449PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
450
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451PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
452 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
453
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454PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
455 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
456
9e45c72b 457JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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458 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
459
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460PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
461 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
462 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
463 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 464 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 465
53947857 466PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 467
eae0036b 468PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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469 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
470 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
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9e45c72b 472JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 473
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474PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
475 read-only, out of scope).
476 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
477
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478PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
479 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
480 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
481 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
482
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483PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
484
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485PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
486 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
487 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
488 real issues in debug logging.
489
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490PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
491 assignment on my part. Fixed.
492
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493PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
494 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
495 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
496
497PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
498 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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499 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
500 problems.
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502PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
503 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
504
57eb9e91 505PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
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506 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
507 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
508 needs to override this, it can.
509
16880d1a
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510PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
511 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
512 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
513
a799883d
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514PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
515 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
516 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
517 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
518
3ecab157 519PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 520
0599f9cf 521
867fcbf5
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522Exim version 4.77
523-----------------
524
525PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
526 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
527
f1a29782
TF
528TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
529
ab42bd23
TK
530TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
531 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 532
0ca0cf52
TF
533TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
534 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
535
921b12ca
TF
536TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
537 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
538 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
539
540 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
541 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
542 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
543 not safe for signals.
544
545 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
546 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
547 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
548 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
549 exiwhat.
550
c99ce5c9
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551TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
552
553 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
554 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
555 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
556 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
557 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
558
559 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
560 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
561 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
562 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
563 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
564 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
565
566 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
567 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
568 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
569 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
570
571 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
572 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
573 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
574 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
575
576 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
577 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
578 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
579 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
580 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
581 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
582 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
583 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
584 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
585
586 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
587 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
588 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
589 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
590
591 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
592 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
593 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
594 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
595 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
596 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
597 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
598 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
599 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
600 details in the main documentation.
601
3634fc25
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602TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
603
792e8a19
TF
604TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
605
5901f0ab
TF
606TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
607 repository when doing development or release builds.
608
7f2a2a43
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609PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
610 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 611
061b7ebd
PP
612PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
613 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
614 Bugzilla 97.
615
e12f8c32
PP
616PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
617
9e949f00 618PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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619 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
620
621PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
622 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 623
555ae6af 624PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
625 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
626
627PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
628 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 629
6f7fe114
PP
630PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
631 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
632
c566dd90
PP
633PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
634 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
635 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
636 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 637
d6cc7c78 638PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
639 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
640 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
641
0d0e4455
PP
642PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
643
3399bb60 644PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
645
646PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
647 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
648
0ca0cf52 649
10906672
PP
650Exim version 4.76
651-----------------
652
653PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
654
754a0503
PP
655PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
656 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
657
c0c7b2da
PP
658PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
659
e97d1f08
PP
660PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
661
084c1d8c
PP
662PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
663 Bugzilla 1098.
664
4e7ee012
PP
665PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
666 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 667
c8d52a00
PP
668TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
669 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
670
54e7ce4a
PP
671PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
672 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
673
5ee6f336
PP
674PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
675 Bugzilla 1104.
676
c8d52a00 677TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
678 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
679
680TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
681 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
682 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
683 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
684
685PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
686 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 687
10906672 688
aa097c4c
NM
689Exim version 4.75
690-----------------
691
4c9ef03a 692NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
693 Bugzilla 1073
694
7f3d9eff
TF
695TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
696 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
697 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
698
159f52d2
TF
699TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
700 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
701
0cc9542a
PP
702PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
703 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
704 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
705
f7274286
PP
706PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
707 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
708
7b797365
PP
709PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
710 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
711
caacae52
NM
712NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
713 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
714
09dcaba9
NM
715NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
716 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
717
bc19a55b
PP
718PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
719 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 720
bd4c9759
NM
721NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
722 Fixes bug 943.
723
b72aab72
PP
724PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
725 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
726
2fe76745
PP
727PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
728 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
729
76aa570c
PP
730PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
731 SQL string expansion failure details.
732 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
733
f1e5fef5
PP
734PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
735 Patch from Simon Arlott.
736
4d805ee9
PP
737PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
738 extern declarations in function scope.
739 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
740
cd59ab18
PP
741PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
742 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
743 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
744 a kernel bug).
745
332f5cf3
PP
746PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
747 Patch from Mark Zealey.
748
29cfeb94
PP
749PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
750 Patch from Mark Zealey.
751
660242ad
PP
752PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
753 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
754
bc4bc4c5
PP
755PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
756 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
757
2e64baa9
NM
758NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
759 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
760 Dennis Davis.
761
bddd7526
PP
762PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
763
6bac1a9a
PP
764PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
765
552193f0
NM
766NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
767 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 768
1b587e48
TF
769TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
770 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
771
aa097c4c 772
8c07b69f
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773Exim version 4.74
774-----------------
775
776TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
777 consequences so log it to the panic log.
778
c0ea85ab
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779TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
780 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
781
0761d44e
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782TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
783
0a349494
PP
784DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
785 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
786 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
787
788PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
789 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
790 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
791
fea24b2e
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792PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
793 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
794 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
795 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
796
6545de78
PP
797PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
798 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
799 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
800 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
801
1670ef10
PP
802PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
803 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
804 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
805 arbitrary files.
806
c0886197
PP
807PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
808 (Wolfgang Breyha)
809
b7487bce
PP
810PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
811 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
812 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
813 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
814 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
815
8c07b69f 816
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PP
819
820PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
821 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
822 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
823
6901c596
PP
824PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
825 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
826
a8c8d6b5
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827JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
828
77bb000f
PP
829PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
830
a29e5231
PP
831PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
832
ec5a0394 833PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 834
55c75993
PP
835PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
836
453a6645 837PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
838 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
839 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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840 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
841
8544e77a
PP
842PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
843 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
844 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
845 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
846 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 847
83e029d5
PP
848PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
849
ed7f7860
PP
850PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
851
7d9f747b
PP
852PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
853
4b2241d2
PP
854PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
855
10385c15
PP
856PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
857
dbc4b90d
PP
858PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
859
532be449
PP
860PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
861
6a8de854 862PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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863 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
864 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 865
5dc43717
JJ
866JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
867
868JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
869 "exim" to be used
55c75993 870
3346ab01
PP
871PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
872 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
873
491fab4c
PP
874PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
875 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
876 Notification from John Horne.
877
13eb9497
PP
878PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
879 compatible.
880
881PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
882 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
883 it normally works.
884
7f36d675
DW
885DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
886 access.
887
c1d94452
DW
888DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
889 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
890 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
891
e2f5dc15
DW
892DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
893 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
894 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
895 configuration file.
896
cd25e41d
DW
897DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
898 option (effectively making it always true).
899
261dc43e
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900DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
901 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
902
fa32850b
DW
903DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
904 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
905
79d4bc3d
PP
906PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
907 run-time user, instead of root.
908
43236f35 909PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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910 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
911
fb08281f
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912DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
913 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
914 arguments.
3346ab01 915
74935b98
DW
916DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
917 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
918 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
919
90b6341f
DW
920DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
921
57730b52
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922NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
923
66581d1e 924
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925Exim version 4.72
926-----------------
927
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928JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
929 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
930 typos
465e92cf 931
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932JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
933 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
934 (Finput)
edae0343 935
9bd3e22c
NM
936NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
937 Patch from Alain Williams
938
bb576ff7
NM
939NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
940
5a1a5845
NM
941NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
942 Patch from Andreas Metzler
943
981a9fad
NM
944NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
945 Patch from Kirill Miazine
946
7fc497ee
NM
947NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
948
1a41defa
JJ
949JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
950
a466095c 951NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 952 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 953
94a6bd0b
NM
954TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
955
956TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
957
958MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
959 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
960 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
961
c1b141a8
NM
962NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
963 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 964
b26eacf1 965NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
966 Patch by Simon Arlott
967
179c5980 968PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 969 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 970
9bd3e22c 971
7c6d71af
NM
972Exim version 4.71
973-----------------
974
7d9f747b 975TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 976
f013fb92
NM
977NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
978
0eb8eedd
NM
979NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
980
663ee6d9
NM
981NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
982
177ebd9b
NM
983NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
984
7c6d71af 985
210f147e
NM
986Exim version 4.70
987-----------------
988
cdd3bb85 989TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 990 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
991
992TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
993 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 994 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
995
996TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
997 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 998 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
999
1000TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1001 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1002
210f147e
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1003NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1004 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1005 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1006 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1007
deafd5b3
NM
1008NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1009 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1010 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1011
089793a4
TF
1012TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1013
5f16ca82
TF
1014TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1015
dae9d94e 1016NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1017 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1018
7d9f747b 1019NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1020
06864c44
TF
1021TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1022 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1023 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1024 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1025
65a7d8c3 1026NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1027 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1028
23510047 1029TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1030
7d9f747b 1031NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1032
7d8eec3a 1033NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1034 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1035
89dec7b6
TF
1036TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1037 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1038
a99de90c
TF
1039TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1040 that they are available at delivery time.
1041
e2803e40
TF
1042TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1043
7199e1ee
TF
1044TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1045 incoming_port log selectors.
1046
e276e04b
TF
1047TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1048 setting expands to an empty string.
1049
ce552449 1050NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1051 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1052
e765a0f1 1053NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1054 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1055
4f054c63 1056NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1057 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1058
7d9f747b
PP
1059NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1060 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1061
7d9f747b
PP
1062NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1063 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1064
b52bc06e 1065NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1066 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1067
447de4b0
NM
1068NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1069
4c69d561 1070NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1071 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1072
d5c39246 1073NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1074 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1075
0b23848a
TK
1076TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1077
8f3414a1 1078NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1079 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1080
fb6f955d
NM
1081NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1082
1083NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1084
7d9f747b
PP
1085NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1086 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1087
7d9f747b
PP
1088NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1089 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1090
7d9f747b
PP
1091NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1092 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1093
7d9f747b
PP
1094NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1095 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1096
7d9f747b
PP
1097NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1098 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1099
7d9f747b
PP
1100NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1101 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1102
7d9f747b
PP
1103NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1104 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1105
7d9f747b 1106NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1107 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1108
7d9f747b 1109NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1110
7d9f747b
PP
1111NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1112 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1113
7d9f747b 1114NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1115
7d9f747b 1116NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1117
7d9f747b 1118NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1119
7d9f747b 1120NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1121
17792b53 1122NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1123 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1124
7d9f747b
PP
1125NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1126 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1127
91576cec 1128NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1129 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1130
7d9f747b
PP
1131NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1132 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1133
7d9f747b 1134NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1135
7d9f747b 1136NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1137
7d9f747b 1138NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1139
7d9f747b 1140NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1141
deafd5b3 1142
47db1125
NM
1143Exim version 4.69
1144-----------------
1145
4b3504d0
TK
1146TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1147 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1148 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1149
1150 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1151 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1152 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1153 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1154 build errors in sieve.c.
1155
81ea09ca
NM
1156NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1157 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1158 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1159
f13cddcb
SC
1160SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1161
7d9f747b 1162NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1163
7d9f747b 1164NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1165
7d9f747b 1166NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1167
1168
eb4c0de6
PH
1169Exim version 4.68
1170-----------------
1171
1172PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1173
6a3bceb1
PH
1174PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1175 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1176 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1177 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1178 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1179 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1180 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1181 for iplsearch lookups.
1182
1183 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1184 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1185 previously such lookups could never work.
1186
1187 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1188 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1189 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1190
2e30fa9d
TK
1191TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1192 version.
1193
0806a9c5
MH
1194MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1195 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1196 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1197 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1198 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1199 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1200
ae276964
TK
1201TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1202 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1203
0f2cbd1b
MH
1204MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1205 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1206 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1207 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1208 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1209 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1210
2b85bce7
PH
1211PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1212 local_scan API.
1213
93655c46
PH
1214PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1215
6c512171
PH
1216PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1217 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1218 encrypted.
1219
1220PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1221 by clients under certain conditions.
1222
aa6dc513
PH
1223PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1224 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1225
a96603a0
PH
1226PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1227
8f240103
PH
1228PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1229 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1230
1231PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1232
d677b2f2
PH
1233PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1234
d52120f2
PH
1235PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1236
64f2600a
PH
1237PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1238 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1239
8669f003
PH
1240PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1241
a4dc33a8
PH
1242PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1243 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1244
d6a60c0f
PH
1245PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1246
8f128379
PH
1247PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1248
8932dffe
PH
1249PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1250 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1251 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1252 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1253
ddea74fa 1254PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1255 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1256 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1257
ddea74fa 1258PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1259 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1260
ddea74fa
PH
1261PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1262
ce9f225c
PH
1263PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1264
19897d52
PH
1265PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1266
bc64a74d
PH
1267PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1268 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1269 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1270
eb4c0de6 1271
b4ed4da0
PH
1272Exim version 4.67
1273-----------------
1274
22ad45c9
MH
1275MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1276 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1277 Jan Srzednicki.
1278
b4ed4da0
PH
1279PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1280 issue a MAIL command.
1281
431b7361
PH
1282PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1283
1284 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1285
1286 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1287 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1288 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1289 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1290 item. This has been fixed.
1291
1292PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1293 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1294
83da1223
PH
1295PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1296 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1297
54fc8428
PH
1298PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1299 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1300 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1301
34c5e8dd
SC
1302SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1303
bbe15da8
PH
1304PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1305 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1306 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1307 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1308 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1309
0e8a9471
MH
1310MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1311 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1312 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1313
f0872424
PH
1314PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1315 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1316 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1317 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1318
b01dd148
PH
1319PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1320
6bf342e1
PH
1321PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1322
273f34d0
PH
1323PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1324 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1325 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1326 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1327 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1328
cf8b11a5
PH
1329PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1330
41c7c167
PH
1331PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1332 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1333 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1334 values).
1335
9c57cbc0
PH
1336PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1337
f3f065bb
PH
1338PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1339
047bdd8c
PH
1340PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1341
0ce9abe6
PH
1342PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1343
0e22dfd1
PH
1344PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1345
4c590bd1
PH
1346PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1347 no_callout_flush is set.
1348
09945f1e
PH
1349PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1350 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1351 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1352 fixed.
1353
c51b8e75
PH
1354PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1355
e28326d8
PH
1356PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1357 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1358 other ACL rejections are.
1359
75b1493f
PH
1360PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1361 with slight modification.
1362
7c5214ec
PH
1363PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1364 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1365
4311097e
PH
1366PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1367 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1368 connection.
1369
29f89cad
PH
1370PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1371 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1372
5e687460
SC
1373SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1374
c3611384
PH
1375PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1376 expansion side effects.
1377
5a11a7b4
PH
1378PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1379 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1380 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1381 be the same.
1382
0e20aff9
MH
1383MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1384 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1385 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1386
ca86f471
PH
1387PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1388 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1389 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1390 were accidentally chopped off.
1391
a14e5636
PH
1392PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1393 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1394 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1395 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1396 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1397 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1398 pipelining has not been advertised.
1399
ec95d1a6
PH
1400PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1401
42855d71
PH
1402PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1403 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1404 This has been fixed.
1405
57c2c631
PH
1406PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1407 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1408 reported on Solaris.
1409
58c01c94
PH
1410PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1411 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1412 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1413 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1414 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1415 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1416 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1417
dee5a20a
PH
1418PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1419 cpus.
1420
d2ee6114
PH
1421PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1422
b2d5182b
PH
1423PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1424
79749a79
PH
1425PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1426 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1427 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1428 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1429 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1430 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1431
c456d9bb
PH
1432PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1433 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1434 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1435 host_all_ignored option.
1436
cd9868ec
PH
1437PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1438 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1439 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1440 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1441 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1442 is what is supposed to happen).
1443
ebeaf996
PH
1444PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1445 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1446 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1447 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1448 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1449 uses the Exim user.
1450
2679d413
PH
1451PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1452 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1453 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1454 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1455 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1456 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1457 users.
1458
84024b72
PH
1459PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1460
8005d38e
SC
1461SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1462 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1463 (Jez Hancock).
1464 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1465 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1466
3298c6c6
SC
1467SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1468
a43a27c5
PH
1469PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1470
58eb016e 1471PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1472 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1473 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1474 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1475 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1476 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1477 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1478 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1479 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1480 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1481 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1482
b43a74ea
PH
1483PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1484 advertised in response to EHLO.
1485
b4ed4da0 1486
5dd1517f
PH
1487Exim version 4.66
1488-----------------
1489
1490PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1491 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1492
1493 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1494 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1495
1496 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1497 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1498 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1499
1500 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1501 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1502 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1503 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1504 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1505
1506
93cfa765
TK
1507Exim version 4.65
1508-----------------
1509
1510TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1511 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1512 versions. (#438)
1513
d6066548
MH
1514MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1515 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1516 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1517
4362ff0d
PH
1518PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1519 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1520 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1521 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1522 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1523 rather than extend the field.
1524
93cfa765 1525
944e9e9c
TF
1526Exim version 4.64
1527-----------------
aa41d2de 1528
21d74bd9
TK
1529TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1530 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1531 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1532 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1533 these files.
1534
1535TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1536 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1537 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1538
1539TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1540 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1541 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1542
1543TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1544 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1545 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1546 in the field name.
1547
2b1c6e3a
PH
1548PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1549 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1550 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1551 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1552 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1553 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1554 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1555 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1556 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1557 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1558 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1559
1f872c80
PH
1560PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1561 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1562
1563PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1564 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1565 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1566 ignores EPIPE as well.
1567
d203e649
PH
1568PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1569 (quoted-printable decoding).
1570
cc2ed8f7 1571PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1572 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1573
ddfcd446
PH
1574PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1575
d45b1de8
PH
1576PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1577
1578PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1579
38a0a95f 1580PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1581 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1582
a2405d83
JJ
1583JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1584 in 4.64-PH/09.
1585
1586JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1587 miscellaneous code fixes
1588
6ea85e9a
PH
1589PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1590 rejections.
1591
26da7e20
PH
1592PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1593 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1594 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1595 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1596 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1597 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1598 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1599 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1600
14aa5a05 1601PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1602 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1603 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1604 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1605 function.
1606 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1607 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1608 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1609 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1610 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1611 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1612 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1613 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1614 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1615
ff75a1f7
PH
1616PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1617 decoding.
1618
e6f6568e
PH
1619PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1620 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1621 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1622 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1623 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1624 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1625 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1626 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1627
d6f6e0dc
PH
1628PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1629 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1630 list.
1631
322050c2
PH
1632PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1633 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1634 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1635 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1636 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1637 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1638 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1639 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1640 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1641 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1642 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1643 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1644 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1645
08955dd3
PH
1646PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1647 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1648 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1649 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1650 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1651 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1652 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1653
1eccaa59
PH
1654PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1655 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1656 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1657 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1658 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1659 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1660 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1661 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1662 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1663 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1664
602e59e5
PH
1665PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1666 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1667 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1668 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1669 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1670
411ef850
PH
1671PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1672 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1673 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1674 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1675 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1676 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1677 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1678
7befa435
PH
1679PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1680 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1681 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1682 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1683 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1684 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1685 been verified.
1686
48da4259 1687PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1688 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1689 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1690 and authorization.)
1691
48da4259
PH
1692PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1693 if any retry times were supplied.
1694
d1d5595c
PH
1695PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1696 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1697 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1698
0ef732d9
PH
1699PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1700
328895cc
PH
1701PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1702
fd700877
PH
1703PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1704 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1705 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1706 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1707 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1708 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1709
8dce1a6f
PH
1710PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1711 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1712
17af4a17
PH
1713PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1714 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1715 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1716
1717PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1718 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1719 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1720 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1721 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1722 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1723 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1724 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1725 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1726
1727 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1728 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1729 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1730 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1731 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1732 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1733 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1734 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1735 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1736
1737 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1738 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1739 hammering the server.
1740
c1114884
PH
1741PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1742 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1743
7a0743eb
PH
1744PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1745
0d85fa3f
PH
1746PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1747 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1748 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1749
1bf43b78
PH
1750PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1751 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1752 one case where this was not true.
1753
520de300
PH
1754PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1755 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1756 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1757 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1758 fails.
1759
48c7f9e2
PH
1760PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1761 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1762 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1763 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1764 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1765 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1766 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1767 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1768 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1769 smtp transport.
1770
99ea1c86
PH
1771PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1772 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1773 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1774 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1775
a2042e78
PH
1776PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1777 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1778
4fbcfc2e
PH
1779PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1780 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1781 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1782
aa41d2de
PH
1783PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1784
af561417
PH
1785PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1786
3cc66b45
PH
1787PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1788
194cc0e4
PH
1789PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1790 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1791 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1792 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1793
a401ddaa
PH
1794PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1795 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1796
4e88a19f
PH
1797PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1798 be meaningful with "accept".
1799
d7d7b289
SC
1800SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1801 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1802
1803SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1804 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1805 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1806
1807SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1808 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1809 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1810 there is data to show.
1811 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1812
1813SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1814 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1815 as well as the number of messages.
1816
1817SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1818 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1819 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1820
1821SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1822 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1823 have a flag are now skipped.
1824
1825SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1826 Added the -emptyok flag.
1827
1828SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1829 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1830
0ea2a468
JJ
1831JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1832 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1833 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1834
1835JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1836 match 4.64-PH/13
1837
1838JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1839 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1840
1841JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1842
1843JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1844 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1845
8a10f5a4
PH
1846PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1847
30e18802
PH
1848PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1849 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1850 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1851 contravention of the specifications.
1852
55728a4f
PH
1853PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1854 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1855 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1856
d7837193
PH
1857PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1858 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1859 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1860
87054a31
PH
1861PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1862
ea2c01d2
MH
1863MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1864 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1865 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1866 some point in the past.
1867
e4fa6968
PH
1868PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1869 transport during callout processing was broken.
1870
56f5d9bd
PH
1871PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1872 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1873
922e1c28
PH
1874PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1875 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1876
21eb6e72
PH
1877PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1878 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1879
a0540757
PH
1880PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1881
944e9e9c 1882
478be7b0
SC
1883Exim version 4.63
1884-----------------
1885
1886SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1887 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1888
1889SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1890 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1891 there is data to show.
1892 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1893
1894SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1895 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1896
2b965a65
TF
1897TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1898 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1899
45b91596
PH
1900TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1901 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1902
c59f5781
TF
1903TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1904 submissions from trusted users.
1905
90fc3069
TF
1906TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1907 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1908
6083aca0
TF
1909TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1910 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1911 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1912 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1913 there is now a framework to start from.
1914
765b530f
PH
1915PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1916 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1917 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1918
4e167a8c
PH
1919PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1920
4608d683
PH
1921PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1922
b8dc3e4a
PH
1923PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1924
5418e93b
PH
1925PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1926 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1927 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1928
b4a9bda2
PH
1929PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1930 libradius.
1931
45b91596
PH
1932PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1933 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1934 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1935
5547e2c5
PH
1936PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1937 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1938 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1939 its arguments.
1940
dbcef0ea
PH
1941PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1942 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1943 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1944 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1945 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1946
25257489
PH
1947PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1948 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1949
c816d124
PH
1950PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1951
a9ccd69a
PH
1952PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1953 operations in malware.c.
1954
75fa1910
PH
1955PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1956 signatures.
1957
a7d7aa58
PH
1958PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1959 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1960 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1961 all.
1962
42119b09
PH
1963PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1964 statements to "add_header".
1965
41609df5
PH
1966PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1967 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1968
a5bd321b
PH
1969PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1970 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1971 latter.
1972
e85a7ad5 1973PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1974 so that it is now:
1975
e85a7ad5
PH
1976 ${if or { \
1977 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1978 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1979 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1980 }{no}{yes}}
1981
e85a7ad5
PH
1982 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1983 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1984
d8fe1c03
PH
1985PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1986 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1987
16282d2b
PH
1988PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1989 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1990 any possible encoding problems.
1991
35d40a98
PH
1992PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1993 but not after initializing Perl.
1994
034d99ab
PH
1995PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1996 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1997 apparently, which is not desirable.
1998
6ec97b1b
PH
1999PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2000 queries.
2001
e22ca4ac
JJ
2002JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2003 --not options
2004
2005JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2006
33d73e3b
PH
2007PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2008 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2009 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2010 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2011
9ecb03f3
PH
2012PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2013 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2014 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2015
084efe8d
PH
2016PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2017 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2018 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2019 0.12.
2020
366fc9f0
PH
2021PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2022 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2023 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2024 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2025 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2026
c59f5781 2027
c887c79e
TF
2028Exim version 4.62
2029-----------------
2030
2031TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2032 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2033
1cce3af8
PH
2034PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2035 patch).
2036
afb3eaaf
PH
2037PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2038 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2039 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2040 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2041 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2042 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2043 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2044 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2045 451 error is used.
2046
e173618b
PH
2047PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2048
dd16e114
PH
2049PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2050 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2051 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2052
f7fd3850
PH
2053PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2054 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2055 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2056 odd errors.
2057
d87df92c
PH
2058PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2059 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2060
7e9f683d
PH
2061PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2062 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2063 option (which defaults to 0600).
2064
bfad5236
PH
2065PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2066
01c490df
PH
2067PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2068 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2069 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2070 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2071 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2072 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2073 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2074
d6629cdc
PH
2075PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2076
1cce3af8 2077
214e2000
PH
2078Exim version 4.61
2079-----------------
2080
2081PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2082 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2083 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2084 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2085 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2086 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2087 addresses as local.
2088
f9daeae0
PH
2089PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2090 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2091
7e66e54d
PH
2092PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2093
c8ea1597
PH
2094PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2095 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2096 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2097 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2098 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2099 grumble.
2100
911f6fde
PH
2101PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2102 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2103
47ca6d6c
PH
2104PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2105 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2106 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2107 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2108 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2109
ed0e9820
PH
2110PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2111 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2112 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2113 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2114
eff37e47
PH
2115PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2116 be the same on different OS.
2117
1921d2ea
PH
2118PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2119 testing.
2120
b3f69ca8
JJ
2121JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2122 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2123
2124JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2125 in 4.61-PH/06
2126
424a1c63
PH
2127PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2128 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2129 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2130 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2131 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2132 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2133 bounce message.
2134
7a100415
PH
2135PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2136 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2137 when Exim was called.
2138
19b9dc85
PH
2139PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2140 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2141
309bd837
PH
2142PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2143 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2144 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2145 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2146
59e82a2a
PH
2147PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2148 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2149 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2150 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2151 changes:
2152
2153 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2154 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2155 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2156
2157 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2158 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2159 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2160
9edc04ce
PH
2161PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2162 feature).
2163
1349e1e5
PH
2164PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2165 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2166 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2167 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2168 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2169 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2170 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2171 values from the SRV records were lost.
2172
ea49d0e1
PH
2173PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2174 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2175 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2176
064a94c9
PH
2177PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2178 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2179 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2180
727071f8
PH
2181PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2182 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2183 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2184 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2185 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2186 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2187 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2188 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2189 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2190 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2191
f78eb7c6
PH
2192PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2193 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2194 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2195
21c28500
PH
2196PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2197 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2198
2199PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2200 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2201 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2202 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2203 is given.
2204
1688f43b
PH
2205PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2206 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2207 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2208
2209PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2210 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2211 PH/23 above applies.
2212
9675b384
PH
2213PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2214 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2215 (for which there is an explicit test).
2216
6a3f1455
PH
2217PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2218
dac79d3e
PH
2219PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2220 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2221 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2222 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2223 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2224
5977a0b3
PH
2225PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2226 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2227 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2228 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2229
c91535f3
PH
2230PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2231 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2232 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2233
0d46a8c8
PH
2234PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2235
278c6e6c
PH
2236PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2237
2cbb4081
PH
2238PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2239 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2240 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2241
3eef829e
PH
2242PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2243 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2244 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2245 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2246 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2247
1ab95fa6
PH
2248PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2249 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2250 the message gets confusing).
2251
230205fc
PH
2252PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2253 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2254 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2255 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2256
75e0e026
PH
2257PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2258 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2259 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2260 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2261 same order.
2262
2263PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2264 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2265 the different processes.
2266
145396a6
PH
2267PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2268
3cd34f13
PH
2269PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2270
11121d3d
JJ
2271JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2272 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2273
2274JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2275 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2276
2277JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2278 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2279 messages matching specified criteria.
2280
8def5aaf
PH
2281PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2282
929ba01c
PH
2283PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2284 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2285
2632889e
PH
2286PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2287 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2288 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2289 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2290 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2291 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2292 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2293 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2294 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2295 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2296
944a9c55
PH
2297PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2298 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2299 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2300
4a23603b
PH
2301PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2302
4730f942
PH
2303PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2304 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2305 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2306 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2307 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2308 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2309 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2310 the variable.
2311
30dba1e6
PH
2312PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2313 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2314
382afc6b
PH
2315PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2316
a86229cf
PH
2317PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2318
50c99ba6
PH
2319PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2320
d35e429d
PH
2321PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2322 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2323 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2324 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2325 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2326 size of the count of files.
2327
f90d018c
PH
2328PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2329
75def545
PH
2330PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2331 used in LMTP mode:
2332
2333 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2334 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2335 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2336 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2337
2338 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2339 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2340 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2341
2342PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2343 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2344 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2345 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2346 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2347
c46782ef
PH
2348PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2349 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2350
71fafd95
PH
2351PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2352 will now be deprecated.
2353
2c5db4fd
PH
2354PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2355
9cf6b11a
JJ
2356JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2357 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2358 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2359
2360JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2361 with very large, slow to parse queues
2362
2363JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2364
2365JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2366
898d150f
PH
2367PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2368 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2369 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2370 SMTP output lines.
2371
46218253
PH
2372PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2373 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2374 Sieve code now uses this.
2375
e97957bc
PH
2376PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2377 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2378
81e509d7
PH
2379PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2380 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2381
3d240ff7
PH
2382PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2383
b37c4101
PH
2384PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2385 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2386 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2387 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2388 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2389
79378e0f
PH
2390PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2391 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2392 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2393 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2394
e49c7bb4
PH
2395PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2396
d114ec46
PH
2397PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2398
f3d7df6c
PH
2399PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2400 is preferred over IPv4.
2401
715ab376
PH
2402PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2403 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2404 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2405 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2406 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2407 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2408 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2409
6b31b150
PH
2410PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2411 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2412 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2413
2414PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2415
d515a917
PH
2416PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2417 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2418 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2419 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2420 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2421 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2422 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2423 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2424 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2425 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2426 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2427
9b8fadde
PH
2428PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2429 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2430 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2431
214e2000 2432
5de37277
PH
2433Exim version 4.60
2434-----------------
2435
cc38ddbf
PH
2436PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2437
2438 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2439 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2440
2441 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2442 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2443 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2444
72fdd6ae
PH
2445PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2446
2447 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2448 not a single digit.
2449
2450 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2451 string.
2452
2453 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2454 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2455 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2456 silly things.
2457
2458 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2459 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2460
2461 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2462 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2463
cb741023
PH
2464PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2465 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2466 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2467
f174f16e
PH
2468PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2469 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2470
c25242d7
PH
2471PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2472 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2473
2474 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2475
2476 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2477 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2478 this:
2479
2480 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2481
82c19f95
PH
2482PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2483 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2484 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2485 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2486 identical. For example:
2487
2488 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2489
2490 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2491 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2492 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2493
d7ffbc12
PH
2494PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2495 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2496 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2497 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2498
9f526266
PH
2499PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2500 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2501 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2502 message.
2503
87fcc8b9
PH
2504PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2505
2506 o fixes some comments
2507 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2508 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2509 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2510 and documents the missing references header update
2511
2512 and most important:
2513
2514 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2515 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2516 result)
2517
456682f5
PH
2518PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2519 Electronic Mail") by including:
2520
2521 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2522
2523 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2524 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2525 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2526 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2527 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2528
2529 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2530
2531 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2532
2533 The auto-replied keyword:
2534
2535 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2536 message by an automatic process,
2537
2538 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2539
2540 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2541 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2542
2543 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2544 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2545 other messages.
2546
3e46c1aa
PH
2547PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2548 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2549
49826d12
PH
2550PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2551
eba0c039
PH
2552PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2553 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2554 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2555
a0d6ba8a
PH
2556PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2557 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2558 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2559
f0917727
PH
2560PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2561 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2562 and treats the condition as false.
2563
096fee00
PH
2564PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2565
024bd3c2
PH
2566PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2567 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2568 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2569 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2570 not changing the active code.
2571
2572 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2573 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2574
2575 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2576 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2577
df199fec
PH
2578PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2579 (Bugzilla #53).
2580
d27f1df3
PH
2581PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2582 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2583 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2584 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2585 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2586 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2587 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2588 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2589 the text comparison.
2590
96776534
PH
2591PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2592 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2593 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2594 The same fix has been applied.
2595
5de37277 2596
9a799bc0
PH
2597Exim version 4.54
2598-----------------
2599
2600PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2601 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2602 It now does.
2603
99a4b039
PH
2604PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2605 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2606
2607PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2608
4b233853
PH
2609PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2610 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2611 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2612 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2613 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2614
8857ccfd
PH
2615TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2616 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2617 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2618 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2619 or /domain=).
2620
433a2980
PH
2621PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2622 testing suite.
2623
3e46c1aa 2624
9a799bc0 2625
e3a311ba
TK
2626Exim version 4.53
2627-----------------
2628
2629TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2630 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2631
13b685f9
PH
2632PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2633
395ff96d
PH
2634PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2635
5b68f6e4
PH
2636PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2637 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2638 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2639
1ab52c69
PH
2640PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2641 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2642 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2643
b07e6aa3
PH
2644PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2645 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2646 operating systems.
2647
254e032f
PH
2648PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2649 ${stat: expansion item.
2650
3af76a81
PH
2651PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2652 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2653
2548ba04
PH
2654PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2655 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2656 file for comments.
2657
b6c6011d
PH
2658PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2659
cf39cf57
PH
2660PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2661 setting.
2662
f1513293
PH
2663PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2664 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2665
727549a4
PH
2666TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2667
af46795e
PH
2668PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2669 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2670 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2671 the end of the subprocess.
2672
d7b47fd0
PH
2673PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2674 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2675 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2676 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2677 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2678
ee744174
JJ
2679JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2680
b582ab87
PH
2681TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2682
41a13e0a
PH
2683PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2684 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2685
f625cc5a
PH
2686PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2687
2688PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2689
21f7af35
PH
2690PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2691 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2692 HP-UX compiler.
2693
31480e42
PH
2694PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2695
2d280592
PH
2696PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2697 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2698 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2699
7cd1141b
PH
2700PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2701 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2702
2703PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2704 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2705
750af86e
PH
2706PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2707 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2708
2709 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2710 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2711
2712 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2713 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2714 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2715 contributed by a Radius user.
2716
2717PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2718 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2719
4304270b
TK
2720TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2721 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2722
750af86e
PH
2723PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2724 available.
2725
64ffc24f
PH
2726PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2727 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2728 received.
2729
5dd9625b
PH
2730PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2731 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2732 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2733 header lines when this was not necessary.
2734
5591031b
PH
2735PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2736
ba18e66a
PH
2737PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2738 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2739 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2740 exists".
2741
9cec981f
PH
2742PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2743 -bV or -d is used.
2744
aa2b5c79
PH
2745PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2746 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2747 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2748 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2749
48a53b7f
PH
2750PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2751
1c59d63b
PH
2752PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2753
671012da
TK
2754TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2755
1509d3a8
PH
2756PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2757
2758PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2759 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2760 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2761 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2762 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2763 settings.
2764
2765PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2766
2fe1a124
PH
2767PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2768 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2769 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2770 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2771 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2772 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2773 which is clearly wrong.
2774
8800895a
PH
2775PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2776
ccfdb010
PH
2777PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2778 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2779 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2780 subsequently added.
2781
1130bfb0
PH
2782PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2783 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2784
ebcb507f
PH
2785PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2786
c35e155c
PH
2787PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2788 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2789
95d1f782
PH
2790PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2791 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2792
fd6de02e
PH
2793PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2794 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2795
58de37c5
PH
2796PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2797 recipients, not senders.
2798
261cf466
TF
2799TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2800 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2801
3ee512ff
PH
2802PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2803
e08c430f
PH
2804PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2805
bef5a11f
PH
2806PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2807 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2808 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2809 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2810
7546de58
TF
2811TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2812
e5d5a95f
TF
2813TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2814 clock is set back in time.
2815
2e88a017
TF
2816TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2817 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2818
a5f65aa4
TF
2819TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2820 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2821
e7726cbf
PH
2822PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2823 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2824 (see PH/47 above).
2825
a7fdad5b
TF
2826TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2827 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2828 header rewrites.
2829
6af56900
PH
2830PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2831 type ("H").
2832
0925ede6
PH
2833PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2834
66afa403
TF
2835TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2836 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2837 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2838
0154e85a
TF
2839TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2840 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2841 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2842 helo verification defer as a failure.
2843
16f12c76
PH
2844PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2845 actual error message.
2846
bbe902f0 2847
e5a9dba6
PH
2848Exim version 4.52
2849-----------------
2850
2851TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2852
22c3b60b
PH
2853PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2854 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2855 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2856 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2857
06a9b4b5
PH
2858TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2859
c1ac6996
PH
2860PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2861 can still be requested.
2862
9c7a242c
PH
2863PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2864 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2865 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2866 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2867
87ba3f5f
PH
2868TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2869 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2870 circumstances, but probably never did.
2871
2872PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2873 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2874 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2875 in the header line.
2876
29aba418
TF
2877TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2878
fe0dab11
TF
2879TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2880 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2881
11d337a4
TK
2882TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2883
2884TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2885
415c8f3b
PH
2886PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2887 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2888 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2889 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2890 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2891 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2892
958541e9
PH
2893PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2894 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2895 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2896 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2897 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2898 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2899
c206415f
TK
2900TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2901 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2902
2a4be8f9
PH
2903PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2904 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2905
1cba11c5
SC
2906SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2907 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2908
2909SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2910
2911SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2912
2913SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2914
2915SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2916
2917SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2918
2919SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2920
1005d00e
TK
2921TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2922
2923TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2924 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2925 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2926
2927TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2928 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2929 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2930 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2931
9b4768fa
PH
2932PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2933 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2934 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2935
2936PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2937 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2938 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2939 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2940
0d7eb84a
PH
2941PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2942 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2943 to be made).
2944
2945PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2946 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2947 should work with maildirs and everything.
2948
40727bee
TK
2949TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2950 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2951
554d2369
TF
2952TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2953 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2954
1f922db1
PH
2955PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2956 function for BDB 4.3.
2957
ef213c3b
PH
2958PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2959
8ac170f3
PH
2960PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2961 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2962 involved.
2963
b1c749bb
PH
2964PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2965 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2966 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2967 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2968 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2969 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2970
4aac9b49
PH
2971PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2972 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2973 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2974 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2975 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2976 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2977 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2978 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2979
294520c8
TK
2980TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2981 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2982 details.
2983
5bd022fe
PH
2984PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2985 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2986
90e9ce59
PH
2987PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2988 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2989 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2990 test. It is now used for both.
2991
5ea81592
PH
2992PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2993 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2994 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2995 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2996 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2997 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2998
c6c2dc1d
PH
2999PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3000 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3001 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3002 string_vformat().
3003
fffffe4c
PH
3004PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3005 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3006 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3007
9a26b6b2
PH
3008PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3009 experimental DomainKeys support:
3010
3011 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3012 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3013 the control was given.
3014
3015 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3016
4aee0225
PH
3017PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3018
32d668a5
PH
3019PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3020
8187c3f3
PH
3021PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3022 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3023 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3024 db.h files).
3025
ff790e47 3026PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3027 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3028 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3029 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3030 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3031 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3032 course.
ff790e47 3033
5417f6d1
PH
3034PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3035 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3036 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3037 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3038 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3039 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3040
59cf8544
PH
3041PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3042 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3043 do -d+all out of habit.
3044
e7ad8a65
PH
3045PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3046 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3047 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3048
ade42478
PH
3049PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3050 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3051 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3052 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3053 record types that Exim uses.
3054
182ad5cf
PH
3055PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3056 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3057 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3058 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3059 non-existent file that was broken.
3060
b0d9fc80
TK
3061TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3062 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3063
3064TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3065 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3066 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3067
3068TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3069
47c7a64a
PH
3070PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3071 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3072 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3073 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3074 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3075 same time.
3076
a388bce4
SC
3077SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3078 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3079 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3080 at a slight CPU cost.
3081
3082SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3083 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3084
3085SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3086 by Marc Sherman.
3087
0793e4ed
SC
3088SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3089
c58b88df
PH
3090PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3091 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3092
e7ad8a65 3093
7982096b
PH
3094Exim version 4.51
3095-----------------
3096
1a46a8c5
PH
3097TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3098 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3099
2f079f46 3100TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3101
3102TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3103
3104PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3105 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3106
3107PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3108 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3109 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3110 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3111 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3112 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3113 file.
3114
3115PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3116 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3117 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3118 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3119 these two options.
3120
3121PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3122 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3123 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3124 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3125 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3126 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3127 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3128 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3129
3130PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3131 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3132
3133PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3134 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3135 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3136 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3137 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3138 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3139
3140PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3141 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3142 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3143 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3144
3145PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3146 Finch).
3147
3148PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3149 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3150
49c2d5ea
PH
3151PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3152 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3153 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3154 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3155 message.
49c2d5ea 3156
bf759a8b
PH
3157PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3158
83364d30
PH
3159PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3160 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3161
7999bbd7
PH
3162PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3163 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3164 to what was transported.)
3165
7dbf77c9
PH
3166TF/01 Added $received_time.
3167
74e0617f
PH
3168PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3169 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3170 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3171 spamd_address settings.
3172
2f079f46
PH
3173PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3174 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3175 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3176 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3177 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3178
8c841523
PH
3179PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3180
7766a4f0
PH
3181PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3182 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3183 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3184 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3185 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3186
8b417f2c
PH
3187PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3188 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3189
901f42cb
PH
3190PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3191 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3192 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3193 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3194 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3195 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3196 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3197 for failure.
3198
f9b9210e
PH
3199PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3200 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3201 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3202 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3203 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3204 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3205 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3206 "input=".
3207
54cdb463
PH
3208PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3209
cf00dad6
PH
3210PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3211 driver and ACL definitions.
3212
acb1b346
PH
3213PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3214 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3215
c5ddb310
PH
3216PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3217 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3218 understands it better than I do:
3219
3220 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3221 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3222
3223 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3224 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3225 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3226 => three warnings about OTP not working
3227 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3228
3229 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3230 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3231 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3232 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3233 for each call.)
3234 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3235 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3236
3237 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3238 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3239 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3240
31619da6
PH
3241PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3242 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3243 specified.
3244
bebaf0fc
PH
3245PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3246 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3247 "Linux".
3248
475fe28a
PH
3249PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3250 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3251 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3252
3253 warn !verify = sender
3254 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3255
3256 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3257 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3258
7e8bec7a
PH
3259PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3260
3261 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3262 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3263
3264 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3265 nomenclature these days.)
3266
e4a89c47
PH
3267PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3268 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3269
5ca2a9a1
PH
3270PH/30 In these circumstances:
3271 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3272 . First host does not offer TLS;
3273 . First host accepts first address;
3274 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3275 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3276 . Second host accepts second address.
3277 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3278 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3279 address.
7e8bec7a 3280
c688b954
PH
3281PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3282 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3283 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3284 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3285 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3286
fed77020
PH
3287PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3288 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3289
7fe1560f
PH
3290PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3291 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3292
ebb6e6d5
PH
3293PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3294 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3295 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3296
9c4e8f60
PH
3297PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3298 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3299 overlooked.
3300
3301PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3302
d7174846
PH
3303PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3304 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3305 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3306 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3307 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3308 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3309 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3310
3311 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3312 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3313 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3314 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3315 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3316
3317 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3318 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3319 routed further.
3320
cfe75fc3
PH
3321PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3322 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3323 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3324 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3325 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3326 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3327
be22d70e
PH
3328PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3329
0612b098
PH
3330PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3331 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3332 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3333 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3334 printable escape sequences.
3335
2e0c1448
PH
3336PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3337 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3338 body only.
3339
447d236c
PH
3340PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3341 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3342 are as follows:
3343
3344 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3345 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3346 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3347 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3348 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3349
3350 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3351 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3352 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3353
d20976dc
PH
3354PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3355
f656d135
PH
3356PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3357 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3358 play with."
3359
2e2a30b4
PH
3360PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3361 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3362 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3363 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3364 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3365 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3366 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3367 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3368 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3369 the log output.
3370
9176e9f0
PH
3371PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3372 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3373 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3374 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3375 "make".
3376
7982096b 3377
bbe902f0
PH
3378A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3379----------------------------------------
3380
3381Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3382changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3383needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3384in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3385that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3386release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3387from 4.43.
3388
3389I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
33904.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3391those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3392historical information.
3393
3394
f7b63901 3395Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3396-----------------
3397
5fe762f6
PH
3398 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3399
139059f6 3400 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3401 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3402
7086e875
PH
3403 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3404 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3405 place.
3406
35af9f61
PH
3407 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3408 filter fails to execute.
3409
b668c215
PH
3410 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3411 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3412 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3413 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3414 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3415
a494b1e1
PH
3416 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3417
3418 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3419 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3420 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3421 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3422
c5fcb476
PH
3423 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3424 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3425 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3426 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3427 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3428
69358f02
PH
3429 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3430
5be20824
PH
343110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3432
eb2c0248
PH
343311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3434 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3435 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3436 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3437
2a3eea10
PH
343812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3439 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3440 sender verification.
3441
344213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3443 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3444
23c7ff99
PH
344514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3446
4deaf07d
PH
344715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3448 connection timeout.
3449
926e1192
PH
345016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3451 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3452
650edc6f
PH
345317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3454 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3455
2c7db3f5
PH
345618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3457 information about exactly what failed.
3458
3d235903
PH
345919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3460
7c7ad977
PH
346120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3462 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3463 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3464
981756db
PH
346521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3466 It is now set to "smtps".
3467
d4eb88df
PH
346822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3469 ignore_target_hosts.
3470
347123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3472 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3473 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3474 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3475 "[x.x.x.x]".
3476
7d468ab8
PH
347724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3478 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3479 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3480
348125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3482 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3483 wake it up if nothing else does.
3484
62c0818f
PH
348526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3486 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3487 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3488 end up negative.
3489
26034054
PH
349027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3491 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3492
af66f652
PH
349328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3494
90af77f4
PH
349529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3496 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3497 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3498 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3499 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3500 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3501 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3502 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3503
d8ef3577
PH
350430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3505 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3506 than one IP address.
3507
5cb8cbc6
PH
350831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3509 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3510 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3511 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3512
14702f5b
PH
351332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3514 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3515 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3516 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3517 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3518 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3519
063b1e99
PH
352033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3521 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3522 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3523 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3524
652e1b65
PH
352534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3526 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3527 respected.
3528
6f0c9a4f
PH
352935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3530 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3531 $sender_host_address.
3532
33397d19
PH
353336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3534 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3535 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3536 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3537 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3538 very small.
3539
7bb56e1f
PH
354037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3541
3542 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3543 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3544
ea3bc19b
PH
3545 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3546 just the host names, not the priorities.
3547
3548 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3549 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3550 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3551
ea3bc19b 3552 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3553 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3554
0bcb2a0e
PH
355538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3556 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3557 domain.
3558
2ac0e484
PH
355939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3560
4e1fde53
PH
356140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3562 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3563
de365ded
PH
356441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3565 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3566 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3567
f05da2e8
PH
356842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3569
d6453af2
PH
357043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3571
f7b63901
PH
357244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3573
357445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3575 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3576 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3577 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3578 because the tests only now provoked it.
3579
a444213a
PH
358046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3581 (this can affect the format of dates).
3582
0ec020ea
PH
358347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3584 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3585 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3586 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3587
b1206957
PH
358848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3589
359049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3591 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3592 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3593 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3594
26dd5a95
PH
359550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3596 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3597 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3598
343b2385
PH
359951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3600 autoreply.
3601
1c5466b9
PH
360252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3603 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3604 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3605 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3606 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3607 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3608 is going on).
3609
55ee9ee3
PH
361053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3611 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3612 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3613 the line.
3614
d38f8232
PH
361554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3616 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3617 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3618
3619 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3620 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3621 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3622 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3623 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3624 so I produce this patch..."
3625
3295e65b
PH
3626 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3627 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3628 is not defined.
3629
7102e136
PH
363055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3631 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3632 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3633 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3634 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3635
3ca0ba97
PH
363656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3637
c2bcbe20
PH
363857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3639 long debug lines gets shown.
3640
18ce445d
PH
364158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3642 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3643
1f5b4c3d
PH
364459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3645
3646 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3647 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3648 of $primary_hostname.
3649
b975ba52
PH
365060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3651 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3652 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3653 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3654 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3655 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3656 by change 4.50/55 above.
3657
3658 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3659 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3660 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3661 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3662 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3663 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3664 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3665
366661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3667 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3668 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3669 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3670
17ffcae7
PH
367162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3672 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3673
d95f9fdb
PH
367463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3675 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3676 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3677 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3678 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3679
86b8287f
PH
368064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3681 This has been fixed.
3682
60dc5e56
PH
368365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3684 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3685 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3686 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3687 the caching.)
3688
533244af
PH
368966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3690
a5a28604
PH
369167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3692 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3693 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3694 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3695
7e634d24
PH
369668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3697 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3698
3e11c26b
PH
369969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3700 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3701 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3702
6729cf78
PH
370370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3704 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3705 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3706 message there.
3707
00f00ca5
PH
370871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3709 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3710 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3711
c9bdd01c
PH
371272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3713 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3714 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3715 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3716
d43194df
PH
371773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3718 during host lookups.
3719
fe5b5d0b
PH
372074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3721 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3722
3723 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3724
76a2d7ba
PH
372575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3726 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3727 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3728 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3729 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3730 background.
3731
373276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3733 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3734
04f7d5b9
PH
373577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3736 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3737 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3738
bc60667e
PH
373978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3740
bb6e88ff
PH
374179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3742 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3743 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3744 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3745 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3746 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3747 process earlier.
3748
1e70f85b
PH
374980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3750 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3751 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3752 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3753 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3754
375581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3756 tables).
3757
4e01f9d6
PH
375882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3759
1ee1cef2
PH
376083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3761 "vacation" handling.
3762
6e2b4ccc
PH
376384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3764 OS variants using glibc.
3765
8e669ac1
PH
376685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3767
495ae4b0 3768
bbe902f0
PH
3769----------------------------------------------------
3770See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3771----------------------------------------------------
3772
3773
3774Exim version 4.44
3775-----------------
3776
3777 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3778 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3779 transport
3780
3781 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3782 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3783 place.
3784
3785 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3786 filter fails to execute.
3787
3788 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3789 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3790 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3791 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3792 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3793
3794 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3795 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3796 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3797 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3798
3799 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3800 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3801 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3802 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3803 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3804
3805 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3806
3807 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3808 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3809 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3810 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3811
3812 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3813 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3814 sender verification.
3815
381610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3817 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3818
381911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3820 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3821
382212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3823 ignore_target_hosts.
3824
382513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3826 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3827 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3828 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3829 "[x.x.x.x]".
3830
383114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3832 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3833 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3834
383515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3836 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3837 wake it up if nothing else does.
3838
383916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3840 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3841 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3842 end up negative.
3843
384417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3845 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3846
ea3a6f44 384718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3848
384919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3850 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3851 empty pattern.
3852
385320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3854 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3855 one IP address.
3856
ea3a6f44
NM
385721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3858 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3859 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3860 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3861 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3862 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3863
ea3a6f44
NM
386422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3865 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3866 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3867
386823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3869 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3870 $sender_host_address.
3871
387224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3873
ea3a6f44
NM
387425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3875 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3876 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3877
387826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3879 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3880
ea3a6f44
NM
388127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3882 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3883
ea3a6f44
NM
388428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3885 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3886 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3887 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3888
388929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3890 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3891 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3892
ea3a6f44
NM
389330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3894 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3895 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3896 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3897
ea3a6f44
NM
389831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3899 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3900 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3901
ea3a6f44
NM
390231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3903 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3904
ea3a6f44
NM
390532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3906 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3907 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3908 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3909 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3910 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3911 is going on).
bbe902f0 3912
ea3a6f44
NM
391333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3914 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3915 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3916 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3917 CAN-2005-0021
3918
ea3a6f44
NM
391934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3920 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3921 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3922 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3923 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3924 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3925 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3926
3927 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3928 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3929 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3930 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3931 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3932 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3933 CAN-2005-0021
3934
ea3a6f44
NM
393535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3936 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3937 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3938 CAN-2005-0022
3939
ea3a6f44
NM
394036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3941 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3942 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3943 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3944 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3945
ea3a6f44
NM
394637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3947 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3948 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3949 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3950 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3951
ea3a6f44
NM
395238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3953 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3954 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3955 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3956 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3957
3958
495ae4b0
PH
3959Exim version 4.43
3960-----------------
3961
3962 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3963 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3964 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3965 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3966 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3967 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3968 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3969
3970 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3971 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3972 the delivery.
3973
3974 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3975
3976 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3977
3978 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3979 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3980 to local_scan().
3981
3982 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3983 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3984 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3985 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3986 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3987
3988 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3989 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3990
3991 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3992
3993 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3994
399510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3996 header_sender only.
3997
399811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3999 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4000
400112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4002 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4003 affecting debugging statements).
4004
400513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4006
400714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4008 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4009 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4010 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4011 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4012 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4013 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4014 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4015 after the received time, and all would be well.
4016
401715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4018 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4019 condition in an expansion string.
4020
402116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4022
402317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4024 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4025 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4026 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4027 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4028 job under whatever limits there are.
4029
403018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4031
403219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4033 space).
4034
403520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4036 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4037 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4038 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4039 return path is set.
4040
404121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4042 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4043 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4044 binary data in such strings.
4045
404622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4047
404823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4049 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4050 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4051 failure, which is pointless.
4052
405324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4054
405525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4056
405726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4058 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4059 Sender: header lines.
4060
406127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4062 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4063 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4064
406528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4066 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4067 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4068 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4069 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4070 happens.
4071
407229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4073 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4074 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4075 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4076 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4077
407830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4079 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4080 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4081 1024.
4082
408331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4084 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4085
408632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4087 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4088
408933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4090
409132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4092
409333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4094
409534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4096 syntax error.
4097
409835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4099
410036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4101
410237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4103 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4104 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4105 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4106
410738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4108 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4109
4110
4111Exim version 4.42
4112-----------------
4113
4114 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4115 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4116 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4117 it was not quoted.
4118 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4119 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4120 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4121 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4122 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4123 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4124
4125 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4126 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4127 verification failure".
4128
4129 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4130 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4131 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4132 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4133
4134 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4135 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4136 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4137 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4138 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4139 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4140 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4141 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4142 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4143 treated as a timeout.
4144
4145 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4146 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4147 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4148 not set for Exim filters).
4149
4150 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4151 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4152 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4153
4154 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4155
4156 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4157 try to make them clearer.
4158
4159 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4160 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4161
4162 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4163
4164 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4165
416610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4167 only the Cygwin environment.
4168
416911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4170 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4171 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4172 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4173 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4174
417512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4176 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4177 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4178 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4179 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4180 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4181 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4182
418313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4184 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4185
418614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4187
4188 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4189 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4190 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4191
4192 To: susanne@some.where
4193
4194 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4195 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4196 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4197 of addresses in From: header lines).
4198
4199 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4200 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4201 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4202
4203 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4204 treated as non-personal.
4205
4206 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4207 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4208
420915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4210
421116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4212
421317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4214 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4215 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4216
421718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4218 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4219
422019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4221 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4222 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4223 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4224 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4225 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4226
422720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4228 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4229 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4230 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4231 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4232 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4233 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4234 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4235
4236 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4237
423821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4239 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4240
424122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4242 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4243 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4244
424523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4246 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4247
424824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4249 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4250 rather than long int.
4251
425225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4253
425426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4255
4256
4257Exim version 4.41
4258-----------------
4259
4260 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4261 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4262 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4263 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4264 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4265 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4266
4267
4268Exim version 4.40
4269-----------------
4270
4271 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4272 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4273
4274 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4275 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4276 socklen_t is defined.
4277
4278 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4279 always exist.
4280
4281 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4282 configured.
4283
4284 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4285 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4286 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4287 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4288 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4289
4290 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4291 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4292 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4293 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4294
4295 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4296 of flapping under certain conditions.
4297
4298 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4299 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4300 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4301
4302 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4303
430410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4305
430611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4307 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4308 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4309 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4310
431112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4312 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4313 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4314 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4315 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4316 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4317 preserved with the message after it was received.
4318
431913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4320 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4321 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4322 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4323 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4324 test suite worked just fine.
4325
432614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4327 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4328 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4329
433015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4331 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4332 string.
4333
433416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4335 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4336 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4337 does not fully solve it.
4338
433917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4340 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4341 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4342 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4343 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4344
434518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4346 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4347 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4348
434919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4350 string, for example:
4351
4352 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4353
4354 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4355 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4356 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4357 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4358 the routers could not see them.
4359
436020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4361 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4362
436321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4364 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4365 output).
4366
436722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4368 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4369 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4370 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4371 that needed quoting.
4372
437323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4374 was not being matched caselessly.
4375
437624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4377 backslashes.
4378
437925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4380 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4381 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4382 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4383 when use_sender is false.
4384
438526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4386
438727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4388
438928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4390
439129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4392 the configuration file.
4393
439430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4395 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4396
439731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4398
439932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4400 bytes in the message body.
4401
440233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4403 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4404 delivery.
4405
440634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4407
440835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4409
441036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4411 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4412 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4413 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4414 another IP address.
4415
4416
4417Exim version 4.34
4418-----------------
4419
4420 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4421 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4422
4423 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4424 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4425 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4426 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4427 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4428
4429 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4430 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4431
4432 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4433 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4434 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4435
4436 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4437 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4438 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4439
4440 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4441 for routers.
4442
4443 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4444 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4445 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4446 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4447 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4448 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4449 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4450
4451
4452Exim version 4.33
4453-----------------
4454
4455 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4456 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4457 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4458 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4459 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4460 default (and expected) setting.
4461
4462 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4463 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4464 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4465 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4466
4467 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4468 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4469
4470 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4471 in domain lists.
4472
4473 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4474 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4475 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4476 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4477 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4478 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4479
4480 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4481 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4482 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4483
4484 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4485 part (NOT match_host).
4486
4487 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4488
4489 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4490 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4491 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4492 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4493 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4494 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4495 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4496 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4497 the same named file.
4498
449910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4500 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4501 when Exim is built.
4502
450311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4504 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4505 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4506 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4507 a host name.
4508
450912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4510 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4511 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4512
451313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4514
451514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4516
451715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4518
451916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4520 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4521
452217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4523 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4524 before starting the TLS session.
4525
452618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4527
452819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4529 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4530
453120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4532 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4533 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4534 colon in the middle).
4535
4536
4537Exim version 4.32
4538-----------------
4539
4540 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4541 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4542 multiple configurations are in use.
4543
4544 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4545 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4546 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4547 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4548 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4549 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4550
4551 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4552 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4553
4554 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4555 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4556 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4557
4558 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4559 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4560 occurs.
4561
4562 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4563 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4564
4565 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4566
4567 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4568 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4569
4570 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4571
4572 -prval:sval
4573
4574 is equivalent to
4575
4576 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4577
4578 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4579 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4580 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4581 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4582 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4583
458410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4585 Exim's behaviour:
4586
4587 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4588 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4589 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4590 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4591 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4592 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4593
4594 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4595 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4596 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4597 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4598 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4599 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4600 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4601 string.
4602
4603 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4604 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4605 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4606 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4607 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4608
460911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4610
461112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4612 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4613 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4614
461513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4616
461714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4618 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4619 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4620 information.
4621
462215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4623 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4624
462516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4626 Three changes have been made:
4627
4628 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4629 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4630 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4631 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4632 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4633
4634 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4635 been restored.
4636
4637 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4638 the modified behaviour.
4639
4640
4641Exim version 4.31
4642-----------------
4643
4644 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4645 Larry Rosenman.
4646
4647 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4648 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4649
4650 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4651 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4652 try to track down a specific problem.
4653
4654 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4655 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4656 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4657
4658 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4659 warning.
4660
4661 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4662 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4663 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4664 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4665 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4666 some earlier ones do not.
4667
4668 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4669
4670 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4671 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4672 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4673 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4674 address literals are enabled, of course).
4675
4676 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4677
467810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4679 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4680 by a command such as
4681
4682 exim -f "" ...
4683
4684 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4685
468611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4687
468812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4689 remained set. It is now erased.
4690
469113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4692 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4693
469414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4695 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4696 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4697 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4698 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4699 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4700 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4701 appropriate error code.
4702
470315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4704 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4705 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4706 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4707 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4708 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4709
471016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4711 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4712 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4713
471417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4715 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4716 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4717 terminate the header.
4718
471918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4720 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4721 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4722
472319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4724 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4725 (4.30/29). In particular:
4726
4727 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4728 imposed.
4729
4730 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4731 to write a maildirsize file.
4732
4733 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4734 the transport, the new value overrides.
4735
4736 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4737 count.
4738
473920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4740 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4741 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4742 space or a tab.
4743
474421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4745 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4746 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4747 the fallback hosts.
4748
474922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4750 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4751 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4752
475323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4754 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4755 using a union.
4756
475724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4758 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4759 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4760
476125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4762
476326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4764
476527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4766
476728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4768 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4769 become corrupted.
4770
477129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4772 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4773 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4774 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4775 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4776 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4777 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4778 too great.
4779
478030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4781 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4782 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4783 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4784 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4785 incorrectly.
4786
478731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4788 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4789 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4790 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4791 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4792 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4793 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4794 cached value only when the same options are set.
4795
479632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4797
479833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4799 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4800 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4801 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4802 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4803
480434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4805 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4806 it is clearly obsolete.
4807
480835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4809 transport.
4810
481136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4812 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4813 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4814 times.
4815
481637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4817 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4818 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4819 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4820 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4821
482238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4823 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4824 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4825 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4826
482739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4828
4829 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4830
4831 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4832 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4833 2^31.
4834
483540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4836 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4837 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4838 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4839 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4840 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4841 $localpart_data.
4842
484341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4844 with the -f command-line option.
4845
484642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4847 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4848 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4849 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4850 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4851 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4852
485343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4854 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4855 line.
4856
485744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4858 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4859 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4860 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4861 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4862 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4863 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4864 buffer is too small.
4865
486645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4867 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4868
486946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4870 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4871 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4872 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4873 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4874 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4875 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4876 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4877 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4878
487947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4880 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4881 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4882
488348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4884 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4885 ACL").
4886
488749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4888 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4889 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4890 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4891 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4892
489350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4894 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4895 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4896 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4897 is set.
4898
489951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4900
490152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4902
490353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4904 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4905
490654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4907 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4908 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4909
491055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4911 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4912 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4913 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4914 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4915
491656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4917 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4918 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4919 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4920 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4921 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4922 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4923
492457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4925 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4926 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4927 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4928 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4929 the test of how many are available.
4930
493158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4932 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4933 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4934 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4935 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4936 new message is started.
4937
493859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4939 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4940
494160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4942 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4943
494461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4945 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4946 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4947 is no long logged.
4948
494962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4950 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4951 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4952 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4953 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4954 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4955 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4956
495763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4958 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4959 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4960 interpreted as octal.
4961
496264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4963 setting.
4964
496565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4966 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4967 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4968 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4969 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4970 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4971
497266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4973 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4974 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4975 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4976
4977 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4978 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4979 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4980 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4981
4982 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4983 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4984 is a bug fix.
4985
4986 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4987 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4988
498967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4990
499168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4992 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4993 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4994 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4995
499669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4997 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4998 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4999 supplied", which is not helpful.
5000
500170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5002 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5003 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5004
500571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5006 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5007 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5008 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5009 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5010 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5011 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5012 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5013
501472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5015 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5016 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5017 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5018 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5019
502073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5021 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5022 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5023 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5024 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5025 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5026
502774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5028 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5029 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5030
503175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5032
503376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5034 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5035 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5036 variables.
5037
503877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5039
504078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5041 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5042 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5043 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5044 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5045 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5046 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5047 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5048
504979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5050 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5051 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5052 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5053 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5054
505580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5056 Haardt.
5057
505881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5059 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5060 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5061 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5062 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5063 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5064 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5065 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5066 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5067
5068
5069Exim version 4.30
5070-----------------
5071
5072 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5073 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5074 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5075
5076 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5077 fixed.
5078
5079 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5080 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5081 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5082
5083 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5084 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5085 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5086 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5087 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5088 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5089
5090 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5091 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5092 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5093 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5094 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5095 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5096 the Exim test suite.
5097
5098 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5099 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5100 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5101 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5102
5103 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5104 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5105 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5106 specify it in this variable.
5107
5108 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5109 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5110 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5111 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5112
5113 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5114 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5115 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5116 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5117
5118 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5119 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5120 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5121 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5122 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5123
5124 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5125
512610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5127 they are logged.
5128
512911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5130 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5131 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5132 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5133 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5134
513512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5136 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5137
513813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5139 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5140 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5141 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5142 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5143
514414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5145 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5146
514715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5148 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5149 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5150
515116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5152 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5153
515417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5155 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5156
515718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5158 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5159 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5160
516119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5162 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5163
516420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5165 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5166 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5167 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5168
516921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5170
517122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5172 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5173 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5174 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5175
517623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5177
517824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5179 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5180
518125. Added .include_if_exists.
5182
518326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5184 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5185 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5186 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5187 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5188 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5189
519027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5191
519228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5193 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5194 this.
5195
519629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5197
519830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5199 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5200
5201 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5202 550 Sender verify failed
5203
5204 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5205 the final line of the response.
5206
520731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5208 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5209 all other user lookups.
5210
521132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5212 delivery time.
5213
521433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5215 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5216 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5217 result into an int without checking.
5218
521934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5220 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5221 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5222
522335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5224 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5225 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5226 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5227
522836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5229 correctly.
5230
523137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5232 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5233
523438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5235 to the empty sender.
5236
523739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5238 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5239 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5240 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5241 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5242 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5243 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5244 panic log.
5245
524640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5247 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5248 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5249 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5250 used.
5251
525241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5253 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5254
525542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5256 timestamps.
5257
525843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5259 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5260
526144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5262
526345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5264 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5265 logs.
5266
526746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5268 as soon as it is encountered.
5269
527047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5271
527248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5273 rewritten to "<>".
5274
527549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5276 recognizes a tab character.
5277
527850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5279 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5280 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5281 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5282
528351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5284
528552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5286 crash.
5287
528853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5289
529054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5291
529255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5293 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5294 2822.
5295
529656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5297 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5298 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5299 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5300 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5301
530257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5303 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5304
530558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5306 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5307 list (.included file names were always shown).
5308
530959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5310 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5311 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5312 root at that time.
5313
531460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5315 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5316
531761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5318
531962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5320
532163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5322
532364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5324 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5325 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5326 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5327 failures to open the logs.
5328
532965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5330 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5331 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5332 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5333 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5334 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5335 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5336
5337
5338Exim version 4.24
5339-----------------
5340
5341 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5342 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5343 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5344 change 4.23/1.
5345
5346 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5347 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5348 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5349
5350 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5351 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5352 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5353
5354 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5355 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5356 causing some misleading effects.
5357
5358 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5359 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5360 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5361
5362 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5363 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5364 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5365 queue-runner function directly.
5366
5367
5368Exim version 4.23
5369-----------------
5370
5371 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5372 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5373
5374 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5375 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5376 was always written to the default place.
5377
5378 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5379 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5380 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5381
5382 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5383
5384 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5385
5386 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5387 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5388 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5389
5390 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5391 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5392 must start.
5393
5394 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5395 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5396 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5397
5398 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5399 command line option is disabled.
5400
5401 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5402 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5403
5404 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5405
5406 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5407
5408 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5409 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5410
541110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5412
541311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5414 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5415 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5416 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5417 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5418 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5419
542012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5421 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5422 timeout.
5423
542413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5425 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5426
542714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5428 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5429
543015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5431 received was valid base64.
5432
543316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5434 name of the variable that was being set.
5435
543617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5437
543818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5439 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5440 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5441 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5442 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5443 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5444
544519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5446
544720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5448 nor realm was specified.
5449
545021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5451 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5452 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5453 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5454
545522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5456 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5457 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5458
545923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5460 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5461 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5462
546324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5464 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5465 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5466 some systems use these upper case variants.
5467
546825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5469 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5470 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5471 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5472
547326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5474
547527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5476 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5477
547828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5479 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5480 expansion variable.
5481
548229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5483
548430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5485 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5486 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5487 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5488
548931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5490 using it.
5491
549232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5493 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5494 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5495
549633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5497 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5498
549934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5500 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5501 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5502 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5503
550435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5505 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5506 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5507
550836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5509
551037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5511 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5512 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5513 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5514 aborted.
5515
551638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5517 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5518 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5519
552039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5521
552240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5523 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5524
552541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5526 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5527
552842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5529 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5530 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5531 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5532 when emails are that large.
5533
5534
5535
5536Exim version 4.22
5537-----------------
5538
5539 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5540 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5541
5542 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5543 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5544 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5545
5546 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5547 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5548 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5549
5550 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5551 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5552 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5553 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5554 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5555
5556 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5557 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5558 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5559 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5560 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5561 ever.
5562
5563 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5564 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5565 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5566 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5567 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5568 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5569 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5570 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5571 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5572 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5573 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5574 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5575 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5576 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5577
5578 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5579 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5580 parameterised it.
5581
5582 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5583 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5584 error should be diagnosed.
5585
5586 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5587 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5588 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5589 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5590 appeared instead of "NULL".
5591
559210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5593 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5594 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5595 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5596 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5597 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5598 proceeds).
5599
5600 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5601 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5602 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5603
5604
5605Exim version 4.21
5606-----------------
5607
5608 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5609 or receiver verification errors.
5610
5611 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5612 name.
5613
5614 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5615 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5616 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5617 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5618
5619 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5620 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5621 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5622 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5623 shouldn't happen again.
5624
5625 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5626 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5627 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5628
5629 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5630 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5631
5632 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5633
5634 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5635 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5636
5637 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5638 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5639 RFC.
5640
564110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5642 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5643 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5644
564511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5646 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5647 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5648 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5649
565012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5651 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5652 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5653 to define what should happen).
5654
565513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5656 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5657 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5658
565914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5660
566115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5662
566316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5664 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5665
566617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5667 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5668 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5669 structure in all cases.
5670
5671 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5672 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5673 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5674 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5675
567618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5677 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5678 domain name.
5679
568019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5681 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5682
568320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5684 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5685
568621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5687 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5688 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5689
569022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5691 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5692 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5693
569423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5695 the book and for uniformity.
5696
569724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5698
569925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5700 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5701 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5702 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5703 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5704 non-existent command as the problem.
5705
570626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5707 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5708 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5709
571027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5711
571228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5713 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5714 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5715
571629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5717 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5718 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5719 timestamps using strftime().
5720
572130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5722 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5723
572432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5725 transport-time rewrites.
5726
572733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5728 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5729 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5730 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5731
573234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5733 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5734
573535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5736 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5737 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5738 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5739 comma and a space.
5740
574136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5742 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5743 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5744 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5745 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5746 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5747 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5748
574937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5750 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5751 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5752 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5753 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5754
575538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5756 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5757 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5758 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5759 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5760 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5761 remaining text gets split now.
5762
576339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5764 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5765 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5766 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5767
576840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5769 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5770 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5771 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5772 $return_path.
5773
577441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5775 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5776 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5777 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5778 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5779 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5780 passed through if needed.
5781
578242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5783 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5784 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5785 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5786 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5787 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5788
578943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5790 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5791 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5792 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5793 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5794
579544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5796 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5797 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5798 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5799 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5800
580145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5802 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5803 noticed.
5804
580546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5806 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5807 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5808 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5809 mayhem of various kinds.
5810
581147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5812 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5813 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5814 the right test for positive values.
5815
581648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5817 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5818 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5819 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5820 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5821 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5822 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5823 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5824 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5825 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5826 envelope.
5827
582849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5829 module.
5830
583150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5832 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5833 forbidding it.
5834
583551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5836 the existing equality matching.
5837
583852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5839 dealing with inode numbers.
5840
584153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5842 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5843 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5844
584554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5846 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5847 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5848 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5849 local_scan().
5850
585155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5852 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5853 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5854 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5855 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5856 relay addresses has also been removed.
5857
585856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5859
586057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5861 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5862 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5863
586458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5865 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5866 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5867 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5868 processing applies to CR:
5869
5870 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5871 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5872
5873 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5874 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5875 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5876 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5877
587859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5879 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5880 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5881
588260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5883 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5884 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5885 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5886 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5887 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5888 arisen.
5889
589061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5891 program routers.
5892
589362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5894 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5895 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5896 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5897 adds:
5898
5899 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5900
5901 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5902
5903 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5904
590563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5906 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5907 not considered personal.
5908
590964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5910
591165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5912
591366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5914
591567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5916 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5917 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5918 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5919 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5920 header lines, and spool format errors.
5921
592268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5923 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5924 for more flexibility.
5925
592669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5927 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5928 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5929
593070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5931 Sabourenkov.
5932
593371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5934 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5935 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5936 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5937 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5938 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5939 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5940 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5941 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5942
594372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5944 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5945 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5946 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5947 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5948 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5949 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5950
595173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5952 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5953 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5954
595574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5956 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5957 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5958 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5959 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5960 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5961 instead of killing the process with assert().
5962
596375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5964 than Unicode encoding.
5965
596676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5967 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5968 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5969 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5970
597177. Added process_log_path.
5972
597378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5974 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5975
597679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5977 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5978
597980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5980 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5981 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5982
598381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5984 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5985 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5986 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5987 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5988 were applied:
5989
5990 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5991 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5992 as invalid.
5993
599482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5995 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5996 they will be used during message reception.
5997
5998
5999Exim version 4.20
6000-----------------
6001
6002The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6003
6004****