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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.
9
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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2c422e6f 27Exim version 4.82
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30PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
31
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32PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
33 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
34
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35PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
36 by GnuTLS.
37
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38PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
39 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
40 routines.
41
13363eba 42PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 43
66645890 44PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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45 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
46 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
47 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
48 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 49
a3fb9793 50PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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51 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
52 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
53 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 54 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 55 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 56
d27f98fe 57TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 58
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59TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
60
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61TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
62 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
63
ae0e32ee 64TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 65 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 66 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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68TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 69
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70TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
71
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72TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
73 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
74
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75JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
76
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77JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
78
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79PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
80
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81NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
82 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 83
585121e2 84JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 85
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86PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
87 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
88 function.
a5f239e4 89
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90PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
91 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
92
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93JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
94 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
95 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 96
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97JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
98
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99JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
100
ea722490 101JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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102 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
103
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104JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
105 Bugzilla 884.
106
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107JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
108 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
109
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110JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
111 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
112
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113PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
114 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 115 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 116
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117JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
118 authenticators.
119
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120JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
121 for control.
122
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123PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
124
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125PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
126 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
127 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
128 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
129
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130TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
131
132 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
133 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
134 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
135 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
136 the retry rules.
137
138 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
139 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
140 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
141
142 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
143 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
144 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
145 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
146
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147 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
148 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
149 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
150 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
151 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
152 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
153 delivery, as in LMTP.
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155 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
156 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
157
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158TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
159
160 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
161
162 Resent-From: f
163
164 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
165 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
166 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
167 username as equal to the username.
168
169 This change corrects that bug.
170
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171GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
172 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
173 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
174
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175TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
176
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177PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
178 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
179 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
180 NULL dereference and crash.
181
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182JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
183
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184PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
185 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
186 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
187
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188SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
189
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190JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
191 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
192 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
193 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
194 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
195 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
196 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
197 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
198 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
199 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
200 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
201
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202PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
203 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
204
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205PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
206 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
207 Bugzilla 880.
208
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209PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
210 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
211 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
212 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
213 an empty string is now equivalent.
214
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215PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
216 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
217 not performing validation itself.
218
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219PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
220 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
221
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222JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
223 Bugzilla 321, 823.
224
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225TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
226
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227PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
228 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
229 other false fix of the same issue.
230 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
231 Bugzilla 1363.
232
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233PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
234 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
235
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236PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
237 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
238 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
239
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240PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
241 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
242 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
243
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244TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
245
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246JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
247
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248TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
249 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
250
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251TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
252 Alexander Miroch.
253
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254TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
255 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
256 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
257 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
258 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 259
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260TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
261 the src/util/ subdirectory.
262
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263TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
264 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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265 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
266
267TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
268 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
269 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
270 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
271
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272TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
273
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274TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
275 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
276 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 277
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278TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
279
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280TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
281 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
282 interaction.
283
284TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
285 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
286
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287TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
288 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
289
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291Exim version 4.80.1
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293
294PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
295 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 296 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 297
ea722490 298
b1770b6e 299Exim version 4.80
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301
302PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
303 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
304 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
305
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306NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
307
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308NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
309 improved.
310
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311NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
312
c1e794ba 313PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 314
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315PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
316
317PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
318 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
319
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320PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
321 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
322
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323PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
324 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
325
f1e05cc7 326PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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327 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
328 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 329
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330PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
331
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332PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
333 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
334
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335PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
336
c45dd180 337PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 338
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339PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
340 non-compliant senders.
341 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
342
eae0036b 343NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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344 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
345 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
346
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347PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
348 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
349 in spool file corruption.
350
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351PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
352 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
353 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
354 "Got SSL error 2".
355
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356TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
357 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
358 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
359
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360JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
361 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
362
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363JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
364
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365PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
366 diagnostics.
367 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
368
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369PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
370 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
371 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
372
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373PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
374 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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375 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
376 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 377
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378PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
379 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
380
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381PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
382 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
383 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
384 resolver implementation change.
385
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386PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
387 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
388
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389PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
390
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391PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
392
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393PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
394 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
395
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396PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
397 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
398
9e45c72b 399JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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400 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
401
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402PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
403 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
404 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
405 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 406 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 407
53947857 408PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
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eae0036b 410PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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411 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
412 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 413
9e45c72b 414JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 415
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416PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
417 read-only, out of scope).
418 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
419
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420PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
421 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
422 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
423 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
424
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425PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
426
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427PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
428 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
429 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
430 real issues in debug logging.
431
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432PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
433 assignment on my part. Fixed.
434
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435PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
436 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
437 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
438
439PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
440 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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441 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
442 problems.
3375e053 443
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444PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
445 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
446
57eb9e91 447PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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448 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
449 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
450 needs to override this, it can.
451
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452PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
453 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
454 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
455
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456PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
457 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
458 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
459 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
460
3ecab157 461PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
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464Exim version 4.77
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466
467PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
468 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
469
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470TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
471
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472TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
473 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 474
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475TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
476 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
477
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478TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
479 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
480 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
481
482 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
483 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
484 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
485 not safe for signals.
486
487 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
488 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
489 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
490 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
491 exiwhat.
492
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493TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
494
495 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
496 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
497 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
498 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
499 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
500
501 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
502 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
503 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
504 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
505 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
506 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
507
508 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
509 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
510 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
511 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
512
513 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
514 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
515 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
516 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
517
518 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
519 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
520 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
521 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
522 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
523 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
524 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
525 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
526 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
527
528 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
529 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
530 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
531 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
532
533 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
534 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
535 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
536 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
537 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
538 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
539 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
540 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
541 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
542 details in the main documentation.
543
3634fc25
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544TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
545
792e8a19
TF
546TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
547
5901f0ab
TF
548TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
549 repository when doing development or release builds.
550
7f2a2a43
PP
551PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
552 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 553
061b7ebd
PP
554PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
555 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
556 Bugzilla 97.
557
e12f8c32
PP
558PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
559
9e949f00 560PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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561 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
562
563PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
564 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 565
555ae6af 566PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
567 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
568
569PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
570 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 571
6f7fe114
PP
572PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
573 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
574
c566dd90
PP
575PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
576 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
577 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
578 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 579
d6cc7c78 580PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
581 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
582 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
583
0d0e4455
PP
584PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
585
3399bb60 586PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
587
588PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
589 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
590
0ca0cf52 591
10906672
PP
592Exim version 4.76
593-----------------
594
595PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
596
754a0503
PP
597PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
598 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
599
c0c7b2da
PP
600PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
601
e97d1f08
PP
602PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
603
084c1d8c
PP
604PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
605 Bugzilla 1098.
606
4e7ee012
PP
607PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
608 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 609
c8d52a00
PP
610TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
611 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
612
54e7ce4a
PP
613PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
614 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
615
5ee6f336
PP
616PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
617 Bugzilla 1104.
618
c8d52a00 619TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
620 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
621
622TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
623 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
624 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
625 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
626
627PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
628 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 629
10906672 630
aa097c4c
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631Exim version 4.75
632-----------------
633
4c9ef03a 634NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
635 Bugzilla 1073
636
7f3d9eff
TF
637TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
638 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
639 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
640
159f52d2
TF
641TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
642 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
643
0cc9542a
PP
644PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
645 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
646 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
647
f7274286
PP
648PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
649 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
650
7b797365
PP
651PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
652 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
653
caacae52
NM
654NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
655 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
656
09dcaba9
NM
657NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
658 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
659
bc19a55b
PP
660PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
661 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 662
bd4c9759
NM
663NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
664 Fixes bug 943.
665
b72aab72
PP
666PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
667 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
668
2fe76745
PP
669PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
670 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
671
76aa570c
PP
672PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
673 SQL string expansion failure details.
674 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
675
f1e5fef5
PP
676PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
677 Patch from Simon Arlott.
678
4d805ee9
PP
679PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
680 extern declarations in function scope.
681 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
682
cd59ab18
PP
683PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
684 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
685 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
686 a kernel bug).
687
332f5cf3
PP
688PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
689 Patch from Mark Zealey.
690
29cfeb94
PP
691PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
692 Patch from Mark Zealey.
693
660242ad
PP
694PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
695 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
696
bc4bc4c5
PP
697PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
698 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
699
2e64baa9
NM
700NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
701 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
702 Dennis Davis.
703
bddd7526
PP
704PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
705
6bac1a9a
PP
706PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
707
552193f0
NM
708NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
709 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 710
1b587e48
TF
711TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
712 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
713
aa097c4c 714
8c07b69f
TF
715Exim version 4.74
716-----------------
717
718TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
719 consequences so log it to the panic log.
720
c0ea85ab
TF
721TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
722 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
723
0761d44e
TF
724TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
725
0a349494
PP
726DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
727 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
728 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
729
730PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
731 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
732 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
733
fea24b2e
PP
734PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
735 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
736 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
737 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
738
6545de78
PP
739PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
740 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
741 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
742 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
743
1670ef10
PP
744PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
745 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
746 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
747 arbitrary files.
748
c0886197
PP
749PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
750 (Wolfgang Breyha)
751
b7487bce
PP
752PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
753 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
754 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
755 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
756 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
757
8c07b69f 758
97fd1e48 759Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 760-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
761
762PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
763 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
764 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
765
6901c596
PP
766PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
767 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
768
a8c8d6b5
JJ
769JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
770
77bb000f
PP
771PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
772
a29e5231
PP
773PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
774
ec5a0394 775PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 776
55c75993
PP
777PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
778
453a6645 779PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
780 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
781 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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782 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
783
8544e77a
PP
784PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
785 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
786 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
787 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
788 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 789
83e029d5
PP
790PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
791
ed7f7860
PP
792PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
793
7d9f747b
PP
794PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
795
4b2241d2
PP
796PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
797
10385c15
PP
798PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
799
dbc4b90d
PP
800PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
801
532be449
PP
802PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
803
6a8de854 804PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
805 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
806 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 807
5dc43717
JJ
808JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
809
810JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
811 "exim" to be used
55c75993 812
3346ab01
PP
813PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
814 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
815
491fab4c
PP
816PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
817 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
818 Notification from John Horne.
819
13eb9497
PP
820PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
821 compatible.
822
823PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
824 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
825 it normally works.
826
7f36d675
DW
827DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
828 access.
829
c1d94452
DW
830DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
831 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
832 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
833
e2f5dc15
DW
834DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
835 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
836 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
837 configuration file.
838
cd25e41d
DW
839DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
840 option (effectively making it always true).
841
261dc43e
DW
842DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
843 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
844
fa32850b
DW
845DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
846 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
847
79d4bc3d
PP
848PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
849 run-time user, instead of root.
850
43236f35 851PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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PP
852 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
853
fb08281f
DW
854DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
855 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
856 arguments.
3346ab01 857
74935b98
DW
858DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
859 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
860 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
861
90b6341f
DW
862DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
863
57730b52
ML
864NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
865
66581d1e 866
465e92cf
JJ
867Exim version 4.72
868-----------------
869
453a6645
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870JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
871 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
872 typos
465e92cf 873
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874JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
875 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
876 (Finput)
edae0343 877
9bd3e22c
NM
878NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
879 Patch from Alain Williams
880
bb576ff7
NM
881NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
882
5a1a5845
NM
883NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
884 Patch from Andreas Metzler
885
981a9fad
NM
886NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
887 Patch from Kirill Miazine
888
7fc497ee
NM
889NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
890
1a41defa
JJ
891JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
892
a466095c 893NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 894 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 895
94a6bd0b
NM
896TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
897
898TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
899
900MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
901 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
902 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
903
c1b141a8
NM
904NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
905 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 906
b26eacf1 907NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
908 Patch by Simon Arlott
909
179c5980 910PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 911 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 912
9bd3e22c 913
7c6d71af
NM
914Exim version 4.71
915-----------------
916
7d9f747b 917TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 918
f013fb92
NM
919NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
920
0eb8eedd
NM
921NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
922
663ee6d9
NM
923NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
924
177ebd9b
NM
925NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
926
7c6d71af 927
210f147e
NM
928Exim version 4.70
929-----------------
930
cdd3bb85 931TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 932 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
933
934TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
935 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 936 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
937
938TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
939 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 940 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
941
942TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
943 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
944
210f147e
NM
945NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
946 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
947 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
948 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
949
deafd5b3
NM
950NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
951 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 952 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 953
089793a4
TF
954TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
955
5f16ca82
TF
956TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
957
dae9d94e 958NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 959 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 960
7d9f747b 961NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 962
06864c44
TF
963TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
964 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
965 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
966 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
967
65a7d8c3 968NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 969 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 970
23510047 971TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 972
7d9f747b 973NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 974
7d8eec3a 975NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 976 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 977
89dec7b6
TF
978TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
979 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 980
a99de90c
TF
981TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
982 that they are available at delivery time.
983
e2803e40
TF
984TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
985
7199e1ee
TF
986TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
987 incoming_port log selectors.
988
e276e04b
TF
989TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
990 setting expands to an empty string.
991
ce552449 992NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 993 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 994
e765a0f1 995NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 996 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 997
4f054c63 998NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 999 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1000
7d9f747b
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1001NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1002 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1003
7d9f747b
PP
1004NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1005 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1006
b52bc06e 1007NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1008 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1009
447de4b0
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1010NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1011
4c69d561 1012NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1013 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1014
d5c39246 1015NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1016 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1017
0b23848a
TK
1018TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1019
8f3414a1 1020NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1021 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1022
fb6f955d
NM
1023NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1024
1025NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1026
7d9f747b
PP
1027NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1028 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1029
7d9f747b
PP
1030NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1031 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1032
7d9f747b
PP
1033NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1034 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1035
7d9f747b
PP
1036NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1037 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1038
7d9f747b
PP
1039NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1040 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1041
7d9f747b
PP
1042NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1043 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1044
7d9f747b
PP
1045NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1046 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1047
7d9f747b 1048NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1049 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1050
7d9f747b 1051NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1052
7d9f747b
PP
1053NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1054 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1055
7d9f747b 1056NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1057
7d9f747b 1058NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1059
7d9f747b 1060NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1061
7d9f747b 1062NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1063
17792b53 1064NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1065 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1066
7d9f747b
PP
1067NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1068 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1069
91576cec 1070NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1071 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1072
7d9f747b
PP
1073NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1074 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1075
7d9f747b 1076NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1077
7d9f747b 1078NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1079
7d9f747b 1080NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1081
7d9f747b 1082NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1083
deafd5b3 1084
47db1125
NM
1085Exim version 4.69
1086-----------------
1087
4b3504d0
TK
1088TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1089 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1090 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1091
1092 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1093 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1094 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1095 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1096 build errors in sieve.c.
1097
81ea09ca
NM
1098NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1099 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1100 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1101
f13cddcb
SC
1102SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1103
7d9f747b 1104NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1105
7d9f747b 1106NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1107
7d9f747b 1108NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1109
1110
eb4c0de6
PH
1111Exim version 4.68
1112-----------------
1113
1114PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1115
6a3bceb1
PH
1116PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1117 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1118 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1119 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1120 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1121 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1122 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1123 for iplsearch lookups.
1124
1125 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1126 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1127 previously such lookups could never work.
1128
1129 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1130 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1131 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1132
2e30fa9d
TK
1133TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1134 version.
1135
0806a9c5
MH
1136MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1137 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1138 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1139 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1140 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1141 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1142
ae276964
TK
1143TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1144 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1145
0f2cbd1b
MH
1146MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1147 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1148 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1149 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1150 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1151 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1152
2b85bce7
PH
1153PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1154 local_scan API.
1155
93655c46
PH
1156PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1157
6c512171
PH
1158PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1159 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1160 encrypted.
1161
1162PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1163 by clients under certain conditions.
1164
aa6dc513
PH
1165PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1166 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1167
a96603a0
PH
1168PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1169
8f240103
PH
1170PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1171 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1172
1173PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1174
d677b2f2
PH
1175PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1176
d52120f2
PH
1177PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1178
64f2600a
PH
1179PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1180 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1181
8669f003
PH
1182PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1183
a4dc33a8
PH
1184PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1185 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1186
d6a60c0f
PH
1187PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1188
8f128379
PH
1189PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1190
8932dffe
PH
1191PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1192 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1193 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1194 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1195
ddea74fa 1196PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1197 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1198 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1199
ddea74fa 1200PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1201 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1202
ddea74fa
PH
1203PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1204
ce9f225c
PH
1205PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1206
19897d52
PH
1207PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1208
bc64a74d
PH
1209PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1210 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1211 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1212
eb4c0de6 1213
b4ed4da0
PH
1214Exim version 4.67
1215-----------------
1216
22ad45c9
MH
1217MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1218 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1219 Jan Srzednicki.
1220
b4ed4da0
PH
1221PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1222 issue a MAIL command.
1223
431b7361
PH
1224PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1225
1226 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1227
1228 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1229 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1230 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1231 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1232 item. This has been fixed.
1233
1234PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1235 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1236
83da1223
PH
1237PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1238 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1239
54fc8428
PH
1240PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1241 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1242 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1243
34c5e8dd
SC
1244SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1245
bbe15da8
PH
1246PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1247 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1248 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1249 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1250 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1251
0e8a9471
MH
1252MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1253 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1254 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1255
f0872424
PH
1256PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1257 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1258 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1259 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1260
b01dd148
PH
1261PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1262
6bf342e1
PH
1263PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1264
273f34d0
PH
1265PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1266 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1267 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1268 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1269 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1270
cf8b11a5
PH
1271PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1272
41c7c167
PH
1273PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1274 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1275 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1276 values).
1277
9c57cbc0
PH
1278PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1279
f3f065bb
PH
1280PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1281
047bdd8c
PH
1282PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1283
0ce9abe6
PH
1284PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1285
0e22dfd1
PH
1286PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1287
4c590bd1
PH
1288PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1289 no_callout_flush is set.
1290
09945f1e
PH
1291PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1292 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1293 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1294 fixed.
1295
c51b8e75
PH
1296PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1297
e28326d8
PH
1298PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1299 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1300 other ACL rejections are.
1301
75b1493f
PH
1302PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1303 with slight modification.
1304
7c5214ec
PH
1305PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1306 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1307
4311097e
PH
1308PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1309 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1310 connection.
1311
29f89cad
PH
1312PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1313 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1314
5e687460
SC
1315SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1316
c3611384
PH
1317PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1318 expansion side effects.
1319
5a11a7b4
PH
1320PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1321 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1322 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1323 be the same.
1324
0e20aff9
MH
1325MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1326 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1327 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1328
ca86f471
PH
1329PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1330 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1331 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1332 were accidentally chopped off.
1333
a14e5636
PH
1334PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1335 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1336 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1337 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1338 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1339 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1340 pipelining has not been advertised.
1341
ec95d1a6
PH
1342PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1343
42855d71
PH
1344PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1345 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1346 This has been fixed.
1347
57c2c631
PH
1348PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1349 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1350 reported on Solaris.
1351
58c01c94
PH
1352PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1353 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1354 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1355 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1356 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1357 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1358 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1359
dee5a20a
PH
1360PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1361 cpus.
1362
d2ee6114
PH
1363PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1364
b2d5182b
PH
1365PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1366
79749a79
PH
1367PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1368 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1369 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1370 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1371 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1372 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1373
c456d9bb
PH
1374PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1375 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1376 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1377 host_all_ignored option.
1378
cd9868ec
PH
1379PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1380 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1381 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1382 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1383 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1384 is what is supposed to happen).
1385
ebeaf996
PH
1386PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1387 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1388 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1389 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1390 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1391 uses the Exim user.
1392
2679d413
PH
1393PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1394 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1395 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1396 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1397 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1398 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1399 users.
1400
84024b72
PH
1401PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1402
8005d38e
SC
1403SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1404 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1405 (Jez Hancock).
1406 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1407 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1408
3298c6c6
SC
1409SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1410
a43a27c5
PH
1411PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1412
58eb016e 1413PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1414 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1415 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1416 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1417 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1418 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1419 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1420 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1421 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1422 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1423 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1424
b43a74ea
PH
1425PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1426 advertised in response to EHLO.
1427
b4ed4da0 1428
5dd1517f
PH
1429Exim version 4.66
1430-----------------
1431
1432PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1433 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1434
1435 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1436 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1437
1438 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1439 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1440 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1441
1442 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1443 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1444 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1445 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1446 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1447
1448
93cfa765
TK
1449Exim version 4.65
1450-----------------
1451
1452TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1453 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1454 versions. (#438)
1455
d6066548
MH
1456MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1457 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1458 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1459
4362ff0d
PH
1460PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1461 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1462 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1463 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1464 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1465 rather than extend the field.
1466
93cfa765 1467
944e9e9c
TF
1468Exim version 4.64
1469-----------------
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TK
1471TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1472 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1473 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1474 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1475 these files.
1476
1477TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1478 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1479 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1480
1481TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1482 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1483 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1484
1485TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1486 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1487 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1488 in the field name.
1489
2b1c6e3a
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1490PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1491 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1492 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1493 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1494 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1495 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1496 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1497 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1498 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1499 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1500 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1501
1f872c80
PH
1502PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1503 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1504
1505PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1506 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1507 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1508 ignores EPIPE as well.
1509
d203e649
PH
1510PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1511 (quoted-printable decoding).
1512
cc2ed8f7 1513PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1514 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1515
ddfcd446
PH
1516PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1517
d45b1de8
PH
1518PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1519
1520PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1521
38a0a95f 1522PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1523 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1524
a2405d83
JJ
1525JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1526 in 4.64-PH/09.
1527
1528JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1529 miscellaneous code fixes
1530
6ea85e9a
PH
1531PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1532 rejections.
1533
26da7e20
PH
1534PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1535 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1536 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1537 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1538 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1539 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1540 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1541 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1542
14aa5a05 1543PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1544 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1545 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1546 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1547 function.
1548 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1549 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1550 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1551 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1552 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1553 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1554 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1555 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1556 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1557
ff75a1f7
PH
1558PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1559 decoding.
1560
e6f6568e
PH
1561PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1562 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1563 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1564 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1565 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1566 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1567 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1568 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1569
d6f6e0dc
PH
1570PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1571 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1572 list.
1573
322050c2
PH
1574PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1575 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1576 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1577 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1578 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1579 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1580 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1581 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1582 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1583 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1584 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1585 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1586 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1587
08955dd3
PH
1588PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1589 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1590 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1591 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1592 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1593 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1594 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1595
1eccaa59
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1596PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1597 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1598 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1599 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1600 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1601 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1602 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1603 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1604 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1605 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1606
602e59e5
PH
1607PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1608 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1609 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1610 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1611 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1612
411ef850
PH
1613PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1614 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1615 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1616 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1617 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1618 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1619 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1620
7befa435
PH
1621PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1622 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1623 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1624 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1625 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1626 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1627 been verified.
1628
48da4259 1629PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1630 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1631 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1632 and authorization.)
1633
48da4259
PH
1634PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1635 if any retry times were supplied.
1636
d1d5595c
PH
1637PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1638 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1639 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1640
0ef732d9
PH
1641PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1642
328895cc
PH
1643PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1644
fd700877
PH
1645PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1646 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1647 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1648 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1649 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1650 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1651
8dce1a6f
PH
1652PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1653 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1654
17af4a17
PH
1655PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1656 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1657 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1658
1659PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1660 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1661 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1662 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1663 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1664 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1665 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1666 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1667 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1668
1669 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1670 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1671 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1672 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1673 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1674 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1675 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1676 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1677 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1678
1679 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1680 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1681 hammering the server.
1682
c1114884
PH
1683PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1684 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1685
7a0743eb
PH
1686PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1687
0d85fa3f
PH
1688PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1689 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1690 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1691
1bf43b78
PH
1692PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1693 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1694 one case where this was not true.
1695
520de300
PH
1696PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1697 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1698 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1699 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1700 fails.
1701
48c7f9e2
PH
1702PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1703 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1704 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1705 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1706 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1707 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1708 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1709 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1710 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1711 smtp transport.
1712
99ea1c86
PH
1713PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1714 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1715 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1716 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1717
a2042e78
PH
1718PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1719 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1720
4fbcfc2e
PH
1721PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1722 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1723 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1724
aa41d2de
PH
1725PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1726
af561417
PH
1727PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1728
3cc66b45
PH
1729PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1730
194cc0e4
PH
1731PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1732 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1733 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1734 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1735
a401ddaa
PH
1736PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1737 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1738
4e88a19f
PH
1739PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1740 be meaningful with "accept".
1741
d7d7b289
SC
1742SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1743 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1744
1745SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1746 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1747 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1748
1749SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1750 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1751 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1752 there is data to show.
1753 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1754
1755SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1756 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1757 as well as the number of messages.
1758
1759SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1760 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1761 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1762
1763SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1764 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1765 have a flag are now skipped.
1766
1767SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1768 Added the -emptyok flag.
1769
1770SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1771 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1772
0ea2a468
JJ
1773JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1774 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1775 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1776
1777JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1778 match 4.64-PH/13
1779
1780JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1781 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1782
1783JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1784
1785JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1786 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1787
8a10f5a4
PH
1788PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1789
30e18802
PH
1790PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1791 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1792 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1793 contravention of the specifications.
1794
55728a4f
PH
1795PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1796 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1797 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1798
d7837193
PH
1799PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1800 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1801 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1802
87054a31
PH
1803PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1804
ea2c01d2
MH
1805MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1806 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1807 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1808 some point in the past.
1809
e4fa6968
PH
1810PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1811 transport during callout processing was broken.
1812
56f5d9bd
PH
1813PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1814 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1815
922e1c28
PH
1816PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1817 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1818
21eb6e72
PH
1819PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1820 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1821
a0540757
PH
1822PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1823
944e9e9c 1824
478be7b0
SC
1825Exim version 4.63
1826-----------------
1827
1828SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1829 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1830
1831SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1832 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1833 there is data to show.
1834 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1835
1836SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1837 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1838
2b965a65
TF
1839TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1840 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1841
45b91596
PH
1842TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1843 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1844
c59f5781
TF
1845TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1846 submissions from trusted users.
1847
90fc3069
TF
1848TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1849 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1850
6083aca0
TF
1851TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1852 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1853 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1854 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1855 there is now a framework to start from.
1856
765b530f
PH
1857PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1858 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1859 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1860
4e167a8c
PH
1861PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1862
4608d683
PH
1863PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1864
b8dc3e4a
PH
1865PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1866
5418e93b
PH
1867PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1868 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1869 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1870
b4a9bda2
PH
1871PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1872 libradius.
1873
45b91596
PH
1874PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1875 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1876 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1877
5547e2c5
PH
1878PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1879 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1880 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1881 its arguments.
1882
dbcef0ea
PH
1883PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1884 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1885 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1886 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1887 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1888
25257489
PH
1889PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1890 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1891
c816d124
PH
1892PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1893
a9ccd69a
PH
1894PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1895 operations in malware.c.
1896
75fa1910
PH
1897PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1898 signatures.
1899
a7d7aa58
PH
1900PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1901 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1902 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1903 all.
1904
42119b09
PH
1905PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1906 statements to "add_header".
1907
41609df5
PH
1908PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1909 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1910
a5bd321b
PH
1911PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1912 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1913 latter.
1914
e85a7ad5 1915PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1916 so that it is now:
1917
e85a7ad5
PH
1918 ${if or { \
1919 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1920 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1921 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1922 }{no}{yes}}
1923
e85a7ad5
PH
1924 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1925 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1926
d8fe1c03
PH
1927PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1928 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1929
16282d2b
PH
1930PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1931 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1932 any possible encoding problems.
1933
35d40a98
PH
1934PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1935 but not after initializing Perl.
1936
034d99ab
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1937PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1938 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1939 apparently, which is not desirable.
1940
6ec97b1b
PH
1941PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1942 queries.
1943
e22ca4ac
JJ
1944JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1945 --not options
1946
1947JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1948
33d73e3b
PH
1949PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1950 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1951 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1952 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1953
9ecb03f3
PH
1954PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1955 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1956 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1957
084efe8d
PH
1958PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1959 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1960 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1961 0.12.
1962
366fc9f0
PH
1963PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1964 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1965 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1966 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1967 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1968
c59f5781 1969
c887c79e
TF
1970Exim version 4.62
1971-----------------
1972
1973TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1974 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1975
1cce3af8
PH
1976PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1977 patch).
1978
afb3eaaf
PH
1979PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1980 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1981 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1982 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1983 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1984 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1985 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1986 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1987 451 error is used.
1988
e173618b
PH
1989PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1990
dd16e114
PH
1991PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1992 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1993 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1994
f7fd3850
PH
1995PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1996 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1997 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1998 odd errors.
1999
d87df92c
PH
2000PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2001 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2002
7e9f683d
PH
2003PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2004 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2005 option (which defaults to 0600).
2006
bfad5236
PH
2007PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2008
01c490df
PH
2009PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2010 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2011 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2012 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2013 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2014 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2015 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2016
d6629cdc
PH
2017PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2018
1cce3af8 2019
214e2000
PH
2020Exim version 4.61
2021-----------------
2022
2023PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2024 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2025 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2026 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2027 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2028 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2029 addresses as local.
2030
f9daeae0
PH
2031PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2032 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2033
7e66e54d
PH
2034PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2035
c8ea1597
PH
2036PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2037 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2038 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2039 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2040 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2041 grumble.
2042
911f6fde
PH
2043PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2044 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2045
47ca6d6c
PH
2046PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2047 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2048 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2049 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2050 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2051
ed0e9820
PH
2052PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2053 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2054 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2055 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2056
eff37e47
PH
2057PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2058 be the same on different OS.
2059
1921d2ea
PH
2060PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2061 testing.
2062
b3f69ca8
JJ
2063JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2064 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2065
2066JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2067 in 4.61-PH/06
2068
424a1c63
PH
2069PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2070 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2071 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2072 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2073 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2074 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2075 bounce message.
2076
7a100415
PH
2077PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2078 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2079 when Exim was called.
2080
19b9dc85
PH
2081PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2082 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2083
309bd837
PH
2084PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2085 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2086 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2087 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2088
59e82a2a
PH
2089PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2090 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2091 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2092 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2093 changes:
2094
2095 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2096 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2097 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2098
2099 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2100 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2101 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2102
9edc04ce
PH
2103PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2104 feature).
2105
1349e1e5
PH
2106PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2107 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2108 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2109 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2110 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2111 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2112 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2113 values from the SRV records were lost.
2114
ea49d0e1
PH
2115PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2116 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2117 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2118
064a94c9
PH
2119PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2120 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2121 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2122
727071f8
PH
2123PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2124 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2125 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2126 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2127 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2128 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2129 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2130 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2131 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2132 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2133
f78eb7c6
PH
2134PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2135 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2136 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2137
21c28500
PH
2138PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2139 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2140
2141PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2142 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2143 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2144 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2145 is given.
2146
1688f43b
PH
2147PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2148 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2149 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2150
2151PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2152 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2153 PH/23 above applies.
2154
9675b384
PH
2155PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2156 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2157 (for which there is an explicit test).
2158
6a3f1455
PH
2159PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2160
dac79d3e
PH
2161PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2162 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2163 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2164 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2165 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2166
5977a0b3
PH
2167PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2168 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2169 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2170 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2171
c91535f3
PH
2172PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2173 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2174 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2175
0d46a8c8
PH
2176PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2177
278c6e6c
PH
2178PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2179
2cbb4081
PH
2180PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2181 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2182 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2183
3eef829e
PH
2184PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2185 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2186 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2187 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2188 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2189
1ab95fa6
PH
2190PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2191 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2192 the message gets confusing).
2193
230205fc
PH
2194PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2195 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2196 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2197 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2198
75e0e026
PH
2199PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2200 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2201 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2202 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2203 same order.
2204
2205PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2206 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2207 the different processes.
2208
145396a6
PH
2209PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2210
3cd34f13
PH
2211PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2212
11121d3d
JJ
2213JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2214 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2215
2216JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2217 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2218
2219JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2220 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2221 messages matching specified criteria.
2222
8def5aaf
PH
2223PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2224
929ba01c
PH
2225PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2226 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2227
2632889e
PH
2228PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2229 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2230 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2231 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2232 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2233 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2234 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2235 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2236 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2237 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2238
944a9c55
PH
2239PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2240 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2241 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2242
4a23603b
PH
2243PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2244
4730f942
PH
2245PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2246 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2247 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2248 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2249 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2250 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2251 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2252 the variable.
2253
30dba1e6
PH
2254PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2255 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2256
382afc6b
PH
2257PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2258
a86229cf
PH
2259PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2260
50c99ba6
PH
2261PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2262
d35e429d
PH
2263PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2264 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2265 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2266 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2267 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2268 size of the count of files.
2269
f90d018c
PH
2270PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2271
75def545
PH
2272PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2273 used in LMTP mode:
2274
2275 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2276 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2277 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2278 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2279
2280 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2281 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2282 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2283
2284PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2285 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2286 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2287 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2288 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2289
c46782ef
PH
2290PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2291 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2292
71fafd95
PH
2293PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2294 will now be deprecated.
2295
2c5db4fd
PH
2296PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2297
9cf6b11a
JJ
2298JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2299 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2300 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2301
2302JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2303 with very large, slow to parse queues
2304
2305JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2306
2307JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2308
898d150f
PH
2309PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2310 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2311 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2312 SMTP output lines.
2313
46218253
PH
2314PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2315 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2316 Sieve code now uses this.
2317
e97957bc
PH
2318PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2319 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2320
81e509d7
PH
2321PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2322 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2323
3d240ff7
PH
2324PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2325
b37c4101
PH
2326PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2327 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2328 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2329 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2330 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2331
79378e0f
PH
2332PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2333 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2334 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2335 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2336
e49c7bb4
PH
2337PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2338
d114ec46
PH
2339PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2340
f3d7df6c
PH
2341PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2342 is preferred over IPv4.
2343
715ab376
PH
2344PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2345 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2346 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2347 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2348 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2349 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2350 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2351
6b31b150
PH
2352PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2353 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2354 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2355
2356PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2357
d515a917
PH
2358PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2359 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2360 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2361 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2362 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2363 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2364 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2365 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2366 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2367 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2368 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2369
9b8fadde
PH
2370PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2371 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2372 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2373
214e2000 2374
5de37277
PH
2375Exim version 4.60
2376-----------------
2377
cc38ddbf
PH
2378PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2379
2380 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2381 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2382
2383 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2384 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2385 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2386
72fdd6ae
PH
2387PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2388
2389 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2390 not a single digit.
2391
2392 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2393 string.
2394
2395 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2396 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2397 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2398 silly things.
2399
2400 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2401 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2402
2403 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2404 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2405
cb741023
PH
2406PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2407 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2408 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2409
f174f16e
PH
2410PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2411 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2412
c25242d7
PH
2413PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2414 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2415
2416 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2417
2418 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2419 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2420 this:
2421
2422 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2423
82c19f95
PH
2424PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2425 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2426 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2427 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2428 identical. For example:
2429
2430 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2431
2432 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2433 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2434 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2435
d7ffbc12
PH
2436PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2437 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2438 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2439 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2440
9f526266
PH
2441PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2442 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2443 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2444 message.
2445
87fcc8b9
PH
2446PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2447
2448 o fixes some comments
2449 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2450 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2451 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2452 and documents the missing references header update
2453
2454 and most important:
2455
2456 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2457 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2458 result)
2459
456682f5
PH
2460PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2461 Electronic Mail") by including:
2462
2463 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2464
2465 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2466 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2467 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2468 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2469 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2470
2471 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2472
2473 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2474
2475 The auto-replied keyword:
2476
2477 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2478 message by an automatic process,
2479
2480 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2481
2482 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2483 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2484
2485 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2486 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2487 other messages.
2488
3e46c1aa
PH
2489PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2490 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2491
49826d12
PH
2492PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2493
eba0c039
PH
2494PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2495 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2496 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2497
a0d6ba8a
PH
2498PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2499 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2500 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2501
f0917727
PH
2502PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2503 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2504 and treats the condition as false.
2505
096fee00
PH
2506PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2507
024bd3c2
PH
2508PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2509 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2510 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2511 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2512 not changing the active code.
2513
2514 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2515 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2516
2517 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2518 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2519
df199fec
PH
2520PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2521 (Bugzilla #53).
2522
d27f1df3
PH
2523PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2524 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2525 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2526 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2527 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2528 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2529 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2530 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2531 the text comparison.
2532
96776534
PH
2533PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2534 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2535 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2536 The same fix has been applied.
2537
5de37277 2538
9a799bc0
PH
2539Exim version 4.54
2540-----------------
2541
2542PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2543 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2544 It now does.
2545
99a4b039
PH
2546PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2547 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2548
2549PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2550
4b233853
PH
2551PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2552 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2553 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2554 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2555 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2556
8857ccfd
PH
2557TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2558 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2559 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2560 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2561 or /domain=).
2562
433a2980
PH
2563PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2564 testing suite.
2565
3e46c1aa 2566
9a799bc0 2567
e3a311ba
TK
2568Exim version 4.53
2569-----------------
2570
2571TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2572 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2573
13b685f9
PH
2574PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2575
395ff96d
PH
2576PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2577
5b68f6e4
PH
2578PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2579 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2580 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2581
1ab52c69
PH
2582PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2583 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2584 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2585
b07e6aa3
PH
2586PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2587 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2588 operating systems.
2589
254e032f
PH
2590PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2591 ${stat: expansion item.
2592
3af76a81
PH
2593PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2594 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2595
2548ba04
PH
2596PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2597 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2598 file for comments.
2599
b6c6011d
PH
2600PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2601
cf39cf57
PH
2602PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2603 setting.
2604
f1513293
PH
2605PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2606 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2607
727549a4
PH
2608TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2609
af46795e
PH
2610PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2611 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2612 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2613 the end of the subprocess.
2614
d7b47fd0
PH
2615PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2616 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2617 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2618 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2619 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2620
ee744174
JJ
2621JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2622
b582ab87
PH
2623TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2624
41a13e0a
PH
2625PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2626 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2627
f625cc5a
PH
2628PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2629
2630PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2631
21f7af35
PH
2632PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2633 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2634 HP-UX compiler.
2635
31480e42
PH
2636PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2637
2d280592
PH
2638PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2639 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2640 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2641
7cd1141b
PH
2642PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2643 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2644
2645PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2646 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2647
750af86e
PH
2648PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2649 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2650
2651 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2652 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2653
2654 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2655 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2656 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2657 contributed by a Radius user.
2658
2659PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2660 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2661
4304270b
TK
2662TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2663 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2664
750af86e
PH
2665PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2666 available.
2667
64ffc24f
PH
2668PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2669 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2670 received.
2671
5dd9625b
PH
2672PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2673 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2674 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2675 header lines when this was not necessary.
2676
5591031b
PH
2677PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2678
ba18e66a
PH
2679PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2680 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2681 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2682 exists".
2683
9cec981f
PH
2684PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2685 -bV or -d is used.
2686
aa2b5c79
PH
2687PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2688 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2689 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2690 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2691
48a53b7f
PH
2692PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2693
1c59d63b
PH
2694PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2695
671012da
TK
2696TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2697
1509d3a8
PH
2698PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2699
2700PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2701 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2702 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2703 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2704 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2705 settings.
2706
2707PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2708
2fe1a124
PH
2709PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2710 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2711 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2712 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2713 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2714 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2715 which is clearly wrong.
2716
8800895a
PH
2717PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2718
ccfdb010
PH
2719PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2720 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2721 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2722 subsequently added.
2723
1130bfb0
PH
2724PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2725 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2726
ebcb507f
PH
2727PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2728
c35e155c
PH
2729PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2730 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2731
95d1f782
PH
2732PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2733 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2734
fd6de02e
PH
2735PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2736 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2737
58de37c5
PH
2738PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2739 recipients, not senders.
2740
261cf466
TF
2741TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2742 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2743
3ee512ff
PH
2744PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2745
e08c430f
PH
2746PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2747
bef5a11f
PH
2748PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2749 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2750 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2751 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2752
7546de58
TF
2753TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2754
e5d5a95f
TF
2755TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2756 clock is set back in time.
2757
2e88a017
TF
2758TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2759 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2760
a5f65aa4
TF
2761TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2762 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2763
e7726cbf
PH
2764PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2765 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2766 (see PH/47 above).
2767
a7fdad5b
TF
2768TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2769 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2770 header rewrites.
2771
6af56900
PH
2772PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2773 type ("H").
2774
0925ede6
PH
2775PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2776
66afa403
TF
2777TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2778 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2779 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2780
0154e85a
TF
2781TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2782 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2783 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2784 helo verification defer as a failure.
2785
16f12c76
PH
2786PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2787 actual error message.
2788
bbe902f0 2789
e5a9dba6
PH
2790Exim version 4.52
2791-----------------
2792
2793TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2794
22c3b60b
PH
2795PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2796 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2797 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2798 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2799
06a9b4b5
PH
2800TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2801
c1ac6996
PH
2802PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2803 can still be requested.
2804
9c7a242c
PH
2805PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2806 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2807 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2808 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2809
87ba3f5f
PH
2810TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2811 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2812 circumstances, but probably never did.
2813
2814PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2815 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2816 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2817 in the header line.
2818
29aba418
TF
2819TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2820
fe0dab11
TF
2821TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2822 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2823
11d337a4
TK
2824TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2825
2826TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2827
415c8f3b
PH
2828PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2829 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2830 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2831 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2832 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2833 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2834
958541e9
PH
2835PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2836 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2837 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2838 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2839 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2840 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2841
c206415f
TK
2842TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2843 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2844
2a4be8f9
PH
2845PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2846 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2847
1cba11c5
SC
2848SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2849 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2850
2851SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2852
2853SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2854
2855SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2856
2857SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2858
2859SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2860
2861SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2862
1005d00e
TK
2863TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2864
2865TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2866 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2867 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2868
2869TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2870 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2871 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2872 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2873
9b4768fa
PH
2874PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2875 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2876 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2877
2878PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2879 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2880 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2881 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2882
0d7eb84a
PH
2883PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2884 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2885 to be made).
2886
2887PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2888 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2889 should work with maildirs and everything.
2890
40727bee
TK
2891TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2892 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2893
554d2369
TF
2894TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2895 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2896
1f922db1
PH
2897PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2898 function for BDB 4.3.
2899
ef213c3b
PH
2900PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2901
8ac170f3
PH
2902PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2903 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2904 involved.
2905
b1c749bb
PH
2906PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2907 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2908 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2909 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2910 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2911 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2912
4aac9b49
PH
2913PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2914 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2915 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2916 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2917 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2918 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2919 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2920 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2921
294520c8
TK
2922TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2923 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2924 details.
2925
5bd022fe
PH
2926PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2927 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2928
90e9ce59
PH
2929PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2930 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2931 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2932 test. It is now used for both.
2933
5ea81592
PH
2934PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2935 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2936 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2937 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2938 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2939 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2940
c6c2dc1d
PH
2941PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2942 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2943 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2944 string_vformat().
2945
fffffe4c
PH
2946PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2947 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2948 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2949
9a26b6b2
PH
2950PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2951 experimental DomainKeys support:
2952
2953 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2954 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2955 the control was given.
2956
2957 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2958
4aee0225
PH
2959PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2960
32d668a5
PH
2961PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2962
8187c3f3
PH
2963PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2964 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2965 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2966 db.h files).
2967
ff790e47 2968PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2969 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2970 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2971 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2972 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2973 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2974 course.
ff790e47 2975
5417f6d1
PH
2976PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2977 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2978 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2979 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2980 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2981 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2982
59cf8544
PH
2983PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2984 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2985 do -d+all out of habit.
2986
e7ad8a65
PH
2987PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2988 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2989 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2990
ade42478
PH
2991PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2992 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2993 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2994 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2995 record types that Exim uses.
2996
182ad5cf
PH
2997PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2998 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2999 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3000 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3001 non-existent file that was broken.
3002
b0d9fc80
TK
3003TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3004 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3005
3006TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3007 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3008 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3009
3010TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3011
47c7a64a
PH
3012PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3013 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3014 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3015 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3016 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3017 same time.
3018
a388bce4
SC
3019SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3020 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3021 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3022 at a slight CPU cost.
3023
3024SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3025 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3026
3027SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3028 by Marc Sherman.
3029
0793e4ed
SC
3030SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3031
c58b88df
PH
3032PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3033 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3034
e7ad8a65 3035
7982096b
PH
3036Exim version 4.51
3037-----------------
3038
1a46a8c5
PH
3039TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3040 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3041
2f079f46 3042TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3043
3044TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3045
3046PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3047 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3048
3049PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3050 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3051 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3052 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3053 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3054 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3055 file.
3056
3057PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3058 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3059 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3060 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3061 these two options.
3062
3063PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3064 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3065 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3066 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3067 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3068 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3069 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3070 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3071
3072PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3073 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3074
3075PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3076 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3077 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3078 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3079 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3080 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3081
3082PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3083 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3084 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3085 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3086
3087PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3088 Finch).
3089
3090PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3091 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3092
49c2d5ea
PH
3093PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3094 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3095 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3096 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3097 message.
49c2d5ea 3098
bf759a8b
PH
3099PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3100
83364d30
PH
3101PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3102 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3103
7999bbd7
PH
3104PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3105 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3106 to what was transported.)
3107
7dbf77c9
PH
3108TF/01 Added $received_time.
3109
74e0617f
PH
3110PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3111 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3112 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3113 spamd_address settings.
3114
2f079f46
PH
3115PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3116 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3117 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3118 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3119 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3120
8c841523
PH
3121PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3122
7766a4f0
PH
3123PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3124 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3125 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3126 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3127 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3128
8b417f2c
PH
3129PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3130 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3131
901f42cb
PH
3132PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3133 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3134 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3135 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3136 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3137 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3138 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3139 for failure.
3140
f9b9210e
PH
3141PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3142 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3143 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3144 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3145 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3146 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3147 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3148 "input=".
3149
54cdb463
PH
3150PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3151
cf00dad6
PH
3152PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3153 driver and ACL definitions.
3154
acb1b346
PH
3155PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3156 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3157
c5ddb310
PH
3158PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3159 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3160 understands it better than I do:
3161
3162 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3163 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3164
3165 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3166 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3167 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3168 => three warnings about OTP not working
3169 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3170
3171 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3172 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3173 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3174 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3175 for each call.)
3176 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3177 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3178
3179 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3180 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3181 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3182
31619da6
PH
3183PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3184 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3185 specified.
3186
bebaf0fc
PH
3187PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3188 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3189 "Linux".
3190
475fe28a
PH
3191PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3192 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3193 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3194
3195 warn !verify = sender
3196 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3197
3198 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3199 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3200
7e8bec7a
PH
3201PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3202
3203 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3204 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3205
3206 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3207 nomenclature these days.)
3208
e4a89c47
PH
3209PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3210 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3211
5ca2a9a1
PH
3212PH/30 In these circumstances:
3213 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3214 . First host does not offer TLS;
3215 . First host accepts first address;
3216 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3217 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3218 . Second host accepts second address.
3219 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3220 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3221 address.
7e8bec7a 3222
c688b954
PH
3223PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3224 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3225 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3226 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3227 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3228
fed77020
PH
3229PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3230 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3231
7fe1560f
PH
3232PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3233 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3234
ebb6e6d5
PH
3235PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3236 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3237 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3238
9c4e8f60
PH
3239PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3240 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3241 overlooked.
3242
3243PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3244
d7174846
PH
3245PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3246 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3247 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3248 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3249 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3250 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3251 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3252
3253 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3254 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3255 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3256 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3257 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3258
3259 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3260 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3261 routed further.
3262
cfe75fc3
PH
3263PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3264 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3265 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3266 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3267 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3268 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3269
be22d70e
PH
3270PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3271
0612b098
PH
3272PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3273 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3274 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3275 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3276 printable escape sequences.
3277
2e0c1448
PH
3278PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3279 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3280 body only.
3281
447d236c
PH
3282PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3283 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3284 are as follows:
3285
3286 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3287 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3288 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3289 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3290 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3291
3292 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3293 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3294 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3295
d20976dc
PH
3296PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3297
f656d135
PH
3298PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3299 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3300 play with."
3301
2e2a30b4
PH
3302PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3303 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3304 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3305 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3306 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3307 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3308 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3309 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3310 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3311 the log output.
3312
9176e9f0
PH
3313PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3314 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3315 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3316 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3317 "make".
3318
7982096b 3319
bbe902f0
PH
3320A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3321----------------------------------------
3322
3323Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3324changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3325needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3326in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3327that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3328release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3329from 4.43.
3330
3331I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
33324.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3333those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3334historical information.
3335
3336
f7b63901 3337Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3338-----------------
3339
5fe762f6
PH
3340 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3341
139059f6 3342 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3343 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3344
7086e875
PH
3345 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3346 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3347 place.
3348
35af9f61
PH
3349 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3350 filter fails to execute.
3351
b668c215
PH
3352 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3353 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3354 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3355 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3356 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3357
a494b1e1
PH
3358 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3359
3360 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3361 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3362 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3363 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3364
c5fcb476
PH
3365 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3366 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3367 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3368 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3369 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3370
69358f02
PH
3371 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3372
5be20824
PH
337310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3374
eb2c0248
PH
337511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3376 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3377 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3378 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3379
2a3eea10
PH
338012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3381 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3382 sender verification.
3383
338413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3385 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3386
23c7ff99
PH
338714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3388
4deaf07d
PH
338915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3390 connection timeout.
3391
926e1192
PH
339216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3393 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3394
650edc6f
PH
339517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3396 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3397
2c7db3f5
PH
339818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3399 information about exactly what failed.
3400
3d235903
PH
340119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3402
7c7ad977
PH
340320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3404 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3405 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3406
981756db
PH
340721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3408 It is now set to "smtps".
3409
d4eb88df
PH
341022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3411 ignore_target_hosts.
3412
341323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3414 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3415 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3416 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3417 "[x.x.x.x]".
3418
7d468ab8
PH
341924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3420 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3421 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3422
342325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3424 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3425 wake it up if nothing else does.
3426
62c0818f
PH
342726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3428 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3429 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3430 end up negative.
3431
26034054
PH
343227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3433 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3434
af66f652
PH
343528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3436
90af77f4
PH
343729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3438 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3439 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3440 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3441 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3442 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3443 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3444 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3445
d8ef3577
PH
344630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3447 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3448 than one IP address.
3449
5cb8cbc6
PH
345031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3451 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3452 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3453 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3454
14702f5b
PH
345532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3456 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3457 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3458 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3459 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3460 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3461
063b1e99
PH
346233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3463 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3464 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3465 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3466
652e1b65
PH
346734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3468 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3469 respected.
3470
6f0c9a4f
PH
347135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3472 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3473 $sender_host_address.
3474
33397d19
PH
347536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3476 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3477 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3478 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3479 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3480 very small.
3481
7bb56e1f
PH
348237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3483
3484 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3485 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3486
ea3bc19b
PH
3487 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3488 just the host names, not the priorities.
3489
3490 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3491 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3492 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3493
ea3bc19b 3494 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3495 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3496
0bcb2a0e
PH
349738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3498 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3499 domain.
3500
2ac0e484
PH
350139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3502
4e1fde53
PH
350340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3504 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3505
de365ded
PH
350641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3507 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3508 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3509
f05da2e8
PH
351042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3511
d6453af2
PH
351243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3513
f7b63901
PH
351444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3515
351645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3517 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3518 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3519 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3520 because the tests only now provoked it.
3521
a444213a
PH
352246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3523 (this can affect the format of dates).
3524
0ec020ea
PH
352547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3526 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3527 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3528 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3529
b1206957
PH
353048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3531
353249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3533 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3534 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3535 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3536
26dd5a95
PH
353750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3538 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3539 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3540
343b2385
PH
354151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3542 autoreply.
3543
1c5466b9
PH
354452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3545 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3546 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3547 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3548 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3549 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3550 is going on).
3551
55ee9ee3
PH
355253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3553 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3554 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3555 the line.
3556
d38f8232
PH
355754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3558 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3559 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3560
3561 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3562 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3563 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3564 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3565 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3566 so I produce this patch..."
3567
3295e65b
PH
3568 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3569 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3570 is not defined.
3571
7102e136
PH
357255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3573 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3574 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3575 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3576 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3577
3ca0ba97
PH
357856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3579
c2bcbe20
PH
358057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3581 long debug lines gets shown.
3582
18ce445d
PH
358358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3584 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3585
1f5b4c3d
PH
358659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3587
3588 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3589 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3590 of $primary_hostname.
3591
b975ba52
PH
359260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3593 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3594 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3595 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3596 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3597 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3598 by change 4.50/55 above.
3599
3600 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3601 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3602 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3603 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3604 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3605 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3606 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3607
360861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3609 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3610 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3611 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3612
17ffcae7
PH
361362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3614 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3615
d95f9fdb
PH
361663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3617 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3618 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3619 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3620 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3621
86b8287f
PH
362264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3623 This has been fixed.
3624
60dc5e56
PH
362565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3626 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3627 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3628 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3629 the caching.)
3630
533244af
PH
363166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3632
a5a28604
PH
363367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3634 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3635 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3636 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3637
7e634d24
PH
363868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3639 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3640
3e11c26b
PH
364169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3642 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3643 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3644
6729cf78
PH
364570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3646 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3647 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3648 message there.
3649
00f00ca5
PH
365071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3651 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3652 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3653
c9bdd01c
PH
365472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3655 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3656 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3657 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3658
d43194df
PH
365973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3660 during host lookups.
3661
fe5b5d0b
PH
366274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3663 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3664
3665 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3666
76a2d7ba
PH
366775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3668 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3669 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3670 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3671 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3672 background.
3673
367476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3675 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3676
04f7d5b9
PH
367777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3678 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3679 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3680
bc60667e
PH
368178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3682
bb6e88ff
PH
368379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3684 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3685 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3686 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3687 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3688 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3689 process earlier.
3690
1e70f85b
PH
369180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3692 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3693 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3694 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3695 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3696
369781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3698 tables).
3699
4e01f9d6
PH
370082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3701
1ee1cef2
PH
370283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3703 "vacation" handling.
3704
6e2b4ccc
PH
370584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3706 OS variants using glibc.
3707
8e669ac1
PH
370885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3709
495ae4b0 3710
bbe902f0
PH
3711----------------------------------------------------
3712See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3713----------------------------------------------------
3714
3715
3716Exim version 4.44
3717-----------------
3718
3719 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3720 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3721 transport
3722
3723 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3724 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3725 place.
3726
3727 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3728 filter fails to execute.
3729
3730 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3731 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3732 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3733 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3734 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3735
3736 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3737 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3738 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3739 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3740
3741 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3742 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3743 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3744 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3745 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3746
3747 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3748
3749 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3750 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3751 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3752 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3753
3754 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3755 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3756 sender verification.
3757
375810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3759 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3760
376111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3762 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3763
376412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3765 ignore_target_hosts.
3766
376713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3768 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3769 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3770 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3771 "[x.x.x.x]".
3772
377314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3774 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3775 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3776
377715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3778 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3779 wake it up if nothing else does.
3780
378116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3782 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3783 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3784 end up negative.
3785
378617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3787 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3788
ea3a6f44 378918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3790
379119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3792 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3793 empty pattern.
3794
379520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3796 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3797 one IP address.
3798
ea3a6f44
NM
379921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3800 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3801 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3802 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3803 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3804 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3805
ea3a6f44
NM
380622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3807 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3808 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3809
381023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3811 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3812 $sender_host_address.
3813
381424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3815
ea3a6f44
NM
381625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3817 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3818 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3819
382026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3821 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3822
ea3a6f44
NM
382327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3824 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3825
ea3a6f44
NM
382628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3827 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3828 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3829 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3830
383129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3832 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3833 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3834
ea3a6f44
NM
383530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3836 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3837 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3838 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3839
ea3a6f44
NM
384031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3841 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3842 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3843
ea3a6f44
NM
384431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3845 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3846
ea3a6f44
NM
384732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3848 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3849 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3850 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3851 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3852 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3853 is going on).
bbe902f0 3854
ea3a6f44
NM
385533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3856 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3857 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3858 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3859 CAN-2005-0021
3860
ea3a6f44
NM
386134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3862 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3863 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3864 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3865 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3866 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3867 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3868
3869 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3870 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3871 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3872 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3873 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3874 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3875 CAN-2005-0021
3876
ea3a6f44
NM
387735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3878 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3879 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3880 CAN-2005-0022
3881
ea3a6f44
NM
388236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3883 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3884 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3885 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3886 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3887
ea3a6f44
NM
388837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3889 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3890 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3891 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3892 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3893
ea3a6f44
NM
389438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3895 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3896 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3897 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3898 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3899
3900
495ae4b0
PH
3901Exim version 4.43
3902-----------------
3903
3904 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3905 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3906 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3907 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3908 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3909 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3910 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3911
3912 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3913 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3914 the delivery.
3915
3916 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3917
3918 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3919
3920 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3921 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3922 to local_scan().
3923
3924 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3925 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3926 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3927 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3928 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3929
3930 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3931 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3932
3933 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3934
3935 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3936
393710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3938 header_sender only.
3939
394011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3941 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3942
394312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3944 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3945 affecting debugging statements).
3946
394713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3948
394914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3950 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3951 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3952 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3953 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3954 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3955 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3956 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3957 after the received time, and all would be well.
3958
395915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3960 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3961 condition in an expansion string.
3962
396316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3964
396517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3966 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3967 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3968 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3969 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3970 job under whatever limits there are.
3971
397218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3973
397419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3975 space).
3976
397720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3978 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3979 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3980 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3981 return path is set.
3982
398321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3984 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3985 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3986 binary data in such strings.
3987
398822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3989
399023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3991 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3992 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3993 failure, which is pointless.
3994
399524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3996
399725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3998
399926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4000 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4001 Sender: header lines.
4002
400327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4004 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4005 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4006
400728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4008 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4009 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4010 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4011 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4012 happens.
4013
401429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4015 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4016 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4017 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4018 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4019
402030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4021 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4022 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4023 1024.
4024
402531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4026 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4027
402832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4029 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4030
403133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4032
403332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4034
403533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4036
403734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4038 syntax error.
4039
404035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4041
404236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4043
404437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4045 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4046 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4047 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4048
404938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4050 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4051
4052
4053Exim version 4.42
4054-----------------
4055
4056 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4057 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4058 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4059 it was not quoted.
4060 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4061 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4062 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4063 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4064 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4065 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4066
4067 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4068 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4069 verification failure".
4070
4071 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4072 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4073 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4074 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4075
4076 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4077 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4078 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4079 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4080 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4081 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4082 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4083 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4084 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4085 treated as a timeout.
4086
4087 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4088 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4089 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4090 not set for Exim filters).
4091
4092 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4093 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4094 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4095
4096 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4097
4098 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4099 try to make them clearer.
4100
4101 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4102 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4103
4104 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4105
4106 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4107
410810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4109 only the Cygwin environment.
4110
411111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4112 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4113 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4114 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4115 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4116
411712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4118 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4119 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4120 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4121 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4122 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4123 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4124
412513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4126 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4127
412814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4129
4130 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4131 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4132 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4133
4134 To: susanne@some.where
4135
4136 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4137 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4138 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4139 of addresses in From: header lines).
4140
4141 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4142 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4143 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4144
4145 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4146 treated as non-personal.
4147
4148 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4149 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4150
415115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4152
415316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4154
415517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4156 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4157 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4158
415918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4160 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4161
416219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4163 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4164 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4165 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4166 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4167 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4168
416920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4170 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4171 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4172 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4173 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4174 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4175 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4176 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4177
4178 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4179
418021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4181 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4182
418322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4184 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4185 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4186
418723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4188 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4189
419024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4191 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4192 rather than long int.
4193
419425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4195
419626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4197
4198
4199Exim version 4.41
4200-----------------
4201
4202 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4203 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4204 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4205 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4206 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4207 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4208
4209
4210Exim version 4.40
4211-----------------
4212
4213 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4214 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4215
4216 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4217 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4218 socklen_t is defined.
4219
4220 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4221 always exist.
4222
4223 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4224 configured.
4225
4226 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4227 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4228 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4229 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4230 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4231
4232 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4233 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4234 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4235 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4236
4237 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4238 of flapping under certain conditions.
4239
4240 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4241 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4242 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4243
4244 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4245
424610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4247
424811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4249 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4250 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4251 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4252
425312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4254 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4255 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4256 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4257 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4258 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4259 preserved with the message after it was received.
4260
426113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4262 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4263 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4264 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4265 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4266 test suite worked just fine.
4267
426814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4269 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4270 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4271
427215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4273 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4274 string.
4275
427616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4277 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4278 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4279 does not fully solve it.
4280
428117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4282 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4283 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4284 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4285 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4286
428718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4288 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4289 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4290
429119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4292 string, for example:
4293
4294 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4295
4296 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4297 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4298 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4299 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4300 the routers could not see them.
4301
430220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4303 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4304
430521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4306 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4307 output).
4308
430922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4310 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4311 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4312 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4313 that needed quoting.
4314
431523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4316 was not being matched caselessly.
4317
431824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4319 backslashes.
4320
432125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4322 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4323 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4324 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4325 when use_sender is false.
4326
432726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4328
432927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4330
433128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4332
433329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4334 the configuration file.
4335
433630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4337 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4338
433931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4340
434132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4342 bytes in the message body.
4343
434433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4345 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4346 delivery.
4347
434834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4349
435035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4351
435236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4353 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4354 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4355 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4356 another IP address.
4357
4358
4359Exim version 4.34
4360-----------------
4361
4362 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4363 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4364
4365 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4366 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4367 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4368 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4369 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4370
4371 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4372 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4373
4374 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4375 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4376 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4377
4378 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4379 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4380 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4381
4382 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4383 for routers.
4384
4385 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4386 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4387 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4388 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4389 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4390 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4391 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4392
4393
4394Exim version 4.33
4395-----------------
4396
4397 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4398 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4399 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4400 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4401 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4402 default (and expected) setting.
4403
4404 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4405 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4406 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4407 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4408
4409 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4410 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4411
4412 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4413 in domain lists.
4414
4415 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4416 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4417 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4418 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4419 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4420 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4421
4422 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4423 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4424 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4425
4426 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4427 part (NOT match_host).
4428
4429 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4430
4431 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4432 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4433 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4434 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4435 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4436 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4437 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4438 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4439 the same named file.
4440
444110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4442 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4443 when Exim is built.
4444
444511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4446 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4447 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4448 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4449 a host name.
4450
445112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4452 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4453 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4454
445513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4456
445714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4458
445915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4460
446116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4462 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4463
446417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4465 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4466 before starting the TLS session.
4467
446818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4469
447019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4471 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4472
447320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4474 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4475 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4476 colon in the middle).
4477
4478
4479Exim version 4.32
4480-----------------
4481
4482 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4483 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4484 multiple configurations are in use.
4485
4486 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4487 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4488 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4489 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4490 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4491 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4492
4493 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4494 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4495
4496 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4497 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4498 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4499
4500 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4501 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4502 occurs.
4503
4504 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4505 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4506
4507 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4508
4509 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4510 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4511
4512 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4513
4514 -prval:sval
4515
4516 is equivalent to
4517
4518 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4519
4520 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4521 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4522 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4523 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4524 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4525
452610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4527 Exim's behaviour:
4528
4529 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4530 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4531 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4532 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4533 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4534 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4535
4536 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4537 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4538 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4539 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4540 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4541 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4542 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4543 string.
4544
4545 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4546 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4547 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4548 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4549 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4550
455111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4552
455312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4554 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4555 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4556
455713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4558
455914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4560 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4561 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4562 information.
4563
456415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4565 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4566
456716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4568 Three changes have been made:
4569
4570 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4571 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4572 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4573 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4574 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4575
4576 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4577 been restored.
4578
4579 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4580 the modified behaviour.
4581
4582
4583Exim version 4.31
4584-----------------
4585
4586 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4587 Larry Rosenman.
4588
4589 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4590 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4591
4592 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4593 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4594 try to track down a specific problem.
4595
4596 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4597 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4598 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4599
4600 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4601 warning.
4602
4603 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4604 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4605 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4606 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4607 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4608 some earlier ones do not.
4609
4610 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4611
4612 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4613 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4614 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4615 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4616 address literals are enabled, of course).
4617
4618 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4619
462010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4621 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4622 by a command such as
4623
4624 exim -f "" ...
4625
4626 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4627
462811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4629
463012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4631 remained set. It is now erased.
4632
463313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4634 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4635
463614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4637 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4638 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4639 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4640 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4641 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4642 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4643 appropriate error code.
4644
464515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4646 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4647 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4648 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4649 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4650 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4651
465216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4653 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4654 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4655
465617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4657 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4658 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4659 terminate the header.
4660
466118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4662 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4663 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4664
466519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4666 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4667 (4.30/29). In particular:
4668
4669 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4670 imposed.
4671
4672 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4673 to write a maildirsize file.
4674
4675 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4676 the transport, the new value overrides.
4677
4678 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4679 count.
4680
468120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4682 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4683 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4684 space or a tab.
4685
468621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4687 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4688 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4689 the fallback hosts.
4690
469122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4692 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4693 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4694
469523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4696 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4697 using a union.
4698
469924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4700 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4701 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4702
470325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4704
470526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4706
470727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4708
470928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4710 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4711 become corrupted.
4712
471329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4714 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4715 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4716 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4717 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4718 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4719 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4720 too great.
4721
472230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4723 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4724 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4725 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4726 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4727 incorrectly.
4728
472931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4730 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4731 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4732 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4733 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4734 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4735 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4736 cached value only when the same options are set.
4737
473832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4739
474033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4741 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4742 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4743 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4744 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4745
474634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4747 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4748 it is clearly obsolete.
4749
475035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4751 transport.
4752
475336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4754 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4755 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4756 times.
4757
475837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4759 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4760 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4761 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4762 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4763
476438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4765 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4766 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4767 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4768
476939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4770
4771 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4772
4773 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4774 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4775 2^31.
4776
477740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4778 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4779 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4780 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4781 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4782 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4783 $localpart_data.
4784
478541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4786 with the -f command-line option.
4787
478842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4789 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4790 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4791 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4792 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4793 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4794
479543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4796 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4797 line.
4798
479944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4800 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4801 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4802 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4803 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4804 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4805 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4806 buffer is too small.
4807
480845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4809 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4810
481146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4812 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4813 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4814 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4815 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4816 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4817 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4818 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4819 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4820
482147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4822 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4823 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4824
482548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4826 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4827 ACL").
4828
482949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4830 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4831 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4832 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4833 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4834
483550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4836 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4837 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4838 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4839 is set.
4840
484151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4842
484352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4844
484553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4846 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4847
484854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4849 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4850 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4851
485255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4853 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4854 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4855 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4856 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4857
485856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4859 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4860 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4861 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4862 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4863 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4864 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4865
486657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4867 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4868 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4869 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4870 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4871 the test of how many are available.
4872
487358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4874 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4875 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4876 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4877 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4878 new message is started.
4879
488059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4881 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4882
488360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4884 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4885
488661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4887 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4888 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4889 is no long logged.
4890
489162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4892 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4893 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4894 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4895 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4896 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4897 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4898
489963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4900 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4901 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4902 interpreted as octal.
4903
490464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4905 setting.
4906
490765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4908 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4909 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4910 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4911 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4912 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4913
491466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4915 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4916 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4917 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4918
4919 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4920 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4921 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4922 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4923
4924 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4925 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4926 is a bug fix.
4927
4928 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4929 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4930
493167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4932
493368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4934 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4935 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4936 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4937
493869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4939 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4940 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4941 supplied", which is not helpful.
4942
494370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4944 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4945 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4946
494771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4948 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4949 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4950 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4951 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4952 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4953 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4954 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4955
495672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4957 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4958 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4959 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4960 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4961
496273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4963 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4964 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4965 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4966 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4967 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4968
496974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4970 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4971 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4972
497375. Added write_rejectlog option.
4974
497576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4976 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4977 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4978 variables.
4979
498077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4981
498278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4983 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4984 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4985 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4986 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4987 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4988 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4989 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4990
499179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4992 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4993 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4994 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4995 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4996
499780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4998 Haardt.
4999
500081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5001 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5002 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5003 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5004 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5005 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5006 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5007 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5008 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5009
5010
5011Exim version 4.30
5012-----------------
5013
5014 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5015 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5016 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5017
5018 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5019 fixed.
5020
5021 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5022 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5023 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5024
5025 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5026 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5027 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5028 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5029 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5030 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5031
5032 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5033 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5034 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5035 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5036 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5037 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5038 the Exim test suite.
5039
5040 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5041 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5042 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5043 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5044
5045 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5046 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5047 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5048 specify it in this variable.
5049
5050 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5051 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5052 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5053 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5054
5055 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5056 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5057 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5058 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5059
5060 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5061 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5062 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5063 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5064 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5065
5066 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5067
506810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5069 they are logged.
5070
507111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5072 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5073 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5074 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5075 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5076
507712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5078 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5079
508013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5081 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5082 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5083 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5084 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5085
508614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5087 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5088
508915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5090 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5091 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5092
509316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5094 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5095
509617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5097 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5098
509918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5100 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5101 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5102
510319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5104 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5105
510620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5107 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5108 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5109 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5110
511121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5112
511322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5114 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5115 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5116 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5117
511823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5119
512024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5121 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5122
512325. Added .include_if_exists.
5124
512526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5126 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5127 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5128 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5129 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5130 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5131
513227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5133
513428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5135 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5136 this.
5137
513829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5139
514030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5141 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5142
5143 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5144 550 Sender verify failed
5145
5146 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5147 the final line of the response.
5148
514931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5150 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5151 all other user lookups.
5152
515332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5154 delivery time.
5155
515633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5157 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5158 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5159 result into an int without checking.
5160
516134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5162 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5163 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5164
516535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5166 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5167 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5168 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5169
517036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5171 correctly.
5172
517337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5174 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5175
517638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5177 to the empty sender.
5178
517939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5180 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5181 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5182 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5183 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5184 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5185 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5186 panic log.
5187
518840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5189 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5190 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5191 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5192 used.
5193
519441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5195 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5196
519742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5198 timestamps.
5199
520043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5201 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5202
520344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5204
520545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5206 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5207 logs.
5208
520946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5210 as soon as it is encountered.
5211
521247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5213
521448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5215 rewritten to "<>".
5216
521749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5218 recognizes a tab character.
5219
522050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5221 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5222 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5223 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5224
522551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5226
522752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5228 crash.
5229
523053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5231
523254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5233
523455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5235 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5236 2822.
5237
523856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5239 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5240 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5241 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5242 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5243
524457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5245 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5246
524758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5248 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5249 list (.included file names were always shown).
5250
525159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5252 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5253 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5254 root at that time.
5255
525660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5257 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5258
525961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5260
526162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5262
526363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5264
526564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5266 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5267 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5268 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5269 failures to open the logs.
5270
527165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5272 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5273 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5274 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5275 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5276 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5277 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5278
5279
5280Exim version 4.24
5281-----------------
5282
5283 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5284 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5285 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5286 change 4.23/1.
5287
5288 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5289 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5290 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5291
5292 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5293 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5294 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5295
5296 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5297 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5298 causing some misleading effects.
5299
5300 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5301 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5302 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5303
5304 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5305 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5306 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5307 queue-runner function directly.
5308
5309
5310Exim version 4.23
5311-----------------
5312
5313 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5314 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5315
5316 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5317 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5318 was always written to the default place.
5319
5320 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5321 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5322 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5323
5324 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5325
5326 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5327
5328 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5329 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5330 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5331
5332 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5333 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5334 must start.
5335
5336 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5337 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5338 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5339
5340 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5341 command line option is disabled.
5342
5343 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5344 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5345
5346 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5347
5348 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5349
5350 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5351 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5352
535310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5354
535511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5356 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5357 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5358 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5359 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5360 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5361
536212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5363 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5364 timeout.
5365
536613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5367 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5368
536914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5370 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5371
537215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5373 received was valid base64.
5374
537516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5376 name of the variable that was being set.
5377
537817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5379
538018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5381 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5382 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5383 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5384 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5385 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5386
538719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5388
538920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5390 nor realm was specified.
5391
539221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5393 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5394 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5395 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5396
539722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5398 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5399 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5400
540123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5402 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5403 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5404
540524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5406 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5407 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5408 some systems use these upper case variants.
5409
541025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5411 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5412 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5413 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5414
541526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5416
541727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5418 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5419
542028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5421 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5422 expansion variable.
5423
542429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5425
542630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5427 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5428 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5429 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5430
543131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5432 using it.
5433
543432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5435 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5436 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5437
543833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5439 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5440
544134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5442 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5443 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5444 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5445
544635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5447 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5448 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5449
545036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5451
545237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5453 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5454 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5455 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5456 aborted.
5457
545838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5459 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5460 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5461
546239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5463
546440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5465 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5466
546741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5468 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5469
547042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5471 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5472 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5473 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5474 when emails are that large.
5475
5476
5477
5478Exim version 4.22
5479-----------------
5480
5481 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5482 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5483
5484 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5485 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5486 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5487
5488 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5489 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5490 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5491
5492 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5493 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5494 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5495 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5496 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5497
5498 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5499 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5500 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5501 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5502 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5503 ever.
5504
5505 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5506 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5507 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5508 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5509 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5510 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5511 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5512 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5513 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5514 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5515 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5516 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5517 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5518 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5519
5520 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5521 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5522 parameterised it.
5523
5524 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5525 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5526 error should be diagnosed.
5527
5528 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5529 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5530 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5531 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5532 appeared instead of "NULL".
5533
553410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5535 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5536 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5537 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5538 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5539 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5540 proceeds).
5541
5542 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5543 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5544 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5545
5546
5547Exim version 4.21
5548-----------------
5549
5550 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5551 or receiver verification errors.
5552
5553 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5554 name.
5555
5556 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5557 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5558 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5559 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5560
5561 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5562 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5563 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5564 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5565 shouldn't happen again.
5566
5567 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5568 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5569 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5570
5571 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5572 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5573
5574 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5575
5576 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5577 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5578
5579 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5580 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5581 RFC.
5582
558310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5584 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5585 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5586
558711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5588 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5589 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5590 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5591
559212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5593 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5594 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5595 to define what should happen).
5596
559713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5598 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5599 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5600
560114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5602
560315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5604
560516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5606 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5607
560817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5609 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5610 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5611 structure in all cases.
5612
5613 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5614 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5615 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5616 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5617
561818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5619 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5620 domain name.
5621
562219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5623 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5624
562520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5626 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5627
562821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5629 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5630 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5631
563222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5633 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5634 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5635
563623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5637 the book and for uniformity.
5638
563924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5640
564125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5642 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5643 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5644 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5645 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5646 non-existent command as the problem.
5647
564826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5649 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5650 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5651
565227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5653
565428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5655 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5656 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5657
565829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5659 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5660 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5661 timestamps using strftime().
5662
566330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5664 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5665
566632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5667 transport-time rewrites.
5668
566933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5670 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5671 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5672 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5673
567434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5675 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5676
567735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5678 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5679 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5680 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5681 comma and a space.
5682
568336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5684 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5685 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5686 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5687 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5688 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5689 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5690
569137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5692 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5693 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5694 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5695 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5696
569738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5698 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5699 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5700 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5701 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5702 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5703 remaining text gets split now.
5704
570539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5706 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5707 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5708 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5709
571040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5711 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5712 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5713 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5714 $return_path.
5715
571641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5717 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5718 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5719 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5720 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5721 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5722 passed through if needed.
5723
572442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5725 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5726 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5727 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5728 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5729 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5730
573143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5732 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5733 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5734 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5735 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5736
573744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5738 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5739 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5740 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5741 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5742
574345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5744 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5745 noticed.
5746
574746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5748 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5749 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5750 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5751 mayhem of various kinds.
5752
575347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5754 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5755 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5756 the right test for positive values.
5757
575848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5759 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5760 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5761 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5762 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5763 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5764 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5765 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5766 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5767 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5768 envelope.
5769
577049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5771 module.
5772
577350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5774 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5775 forbidding it.
5776
577751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5778 the existing equality matching.
5779
578052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5781 dealing with inode numbers.
5782
578353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5784 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5785 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5786
578754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5788 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5789 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5790 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5791 local_scan().
5792
579355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5794 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5795 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5796 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5797 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5798 relay addresses has also been removed.
5799
580056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5801
580257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5803 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5804 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5805
580658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5807 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5808 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5809 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5810 processing applies to CR:
5811
5812 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5813 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5814
5815 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5816 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5817 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5818 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5819
582059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5821 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5822 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5823
582460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5825 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5826 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5827 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5828 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5829 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5830 arisen.
5831
583261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5833 program routers.
5834
583562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5836 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5837 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5838 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5839 adds:
5840
5841 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5842
5843 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5844
5845 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5846
584763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5848 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5849 not considered personal.
5850
585164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5852
585365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5854
585566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5856
585767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5858 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5859 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5860 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5861 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5862 header lines, and spool format errors.
5863
586468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5865 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5866 for more flexibility.
5867
586869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5869 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5870 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5871
587270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5873 Sabourenkov.
5874
587571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5876 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5877 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5878 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5879 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5880 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5881 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5882 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5883 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5884
588572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5886 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5887 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5888 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5889 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5890 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5891 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5892
589373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5894 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5895 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5896
589774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5898 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5899 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5900 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5901 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5902 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5903 instead of killing the process with assert().
5904
590575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5906 than Unicode encoding.
5907
590876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5909 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5910 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5911 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5912
591377. Added process_log_path.
5914
591578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5916 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5917
591879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5919 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5920
592180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5922 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5923 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5924
592581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5926 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5927 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5928 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5929 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5930 were applied:
5931
5932 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5933 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5934 as invalid.
5935
593682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5937 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5938 they will be used during message reception.
5939
5940
5941Exim version 4.20
5942-----------------
5943
5944The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5945
5946****