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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.92
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10
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
75
5054c4fd 76JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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78JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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80JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
81 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
82 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
83
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84JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
85 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
86 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
87
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88PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
89
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90JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
91 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
92 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
93 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
94
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95PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
96 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
97 promised '?' replacement.
98
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99PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
100
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101JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
102 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
103 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
104 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
105 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
106
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107JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
108 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
109 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
110
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111JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
112 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
113 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
114
7ea1237c 115JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 116 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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117 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
118
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119JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
120 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
121 hope that is portable enough.
122
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123JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
124 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
125 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
126 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
127
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c39c8870 132GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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133 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
134 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
135 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
136 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
137 be defined in redis_servers.
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139GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
140 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
141
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142JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
143 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
144 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
145 extant use locations.
146
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147JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
148 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
149
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150JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
151 Previously only the last row was returned.
152
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153JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
154 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
155 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
156 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
157 input.
158
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159JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
160 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
161 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
162 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
163 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
164 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
165 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
166 Main pool for expansions.
167 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
168 active in the testsuite.
169 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
170
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171JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
172 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
173 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
174 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
175 round-robin DNS.
176
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177JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
178 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
179 failure response.
180
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181JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
182 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
183 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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184
185JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
186 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
187 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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189JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
190 rows affected is given instead).
191
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192JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
193 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
194
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195JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
196 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
197 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
198 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
199 for all multi-message initiating connections.
200
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201JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
202 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
203 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
204
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205JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
206 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
207 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
208 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
209 separate.
210
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211JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
212 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
213 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
214 fake-reject.
215
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216HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
217
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218JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
219 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
220
aab9a843 221PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 222 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 223 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 224
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225JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
226 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
227 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
228 and send a quit.
229
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230JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
231 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
232
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233JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
234 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
235 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
236
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237JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
238 for the build is renamed.
239
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240JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
241 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
242 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
243
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244JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
245 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
246 result replacing the original.
247
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248JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
249 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
250 and the resources needed to be freed.
251
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252JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
253
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254JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
255 was not propagated.
256
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257JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
258 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
259 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
260 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
261
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262JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
263 length value. Previously this would segfault.
264
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265HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
266 newer versions of the scanner.
267
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268JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
269 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
270 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
271 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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272 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
273 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
274 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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276JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
277 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
278 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
279 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
280 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
281 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
282 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
283 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
284 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
285 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
286
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287JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
288 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
289
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290JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
291
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292HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
293 allows proper process termination in container environments.
294
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295JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
296 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
297
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298JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
299 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
300 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
301
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302JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
303 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
304 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 305 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
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307JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
308 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
309 would be spooled.
310
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311PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
312 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
313
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314HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
315 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
316 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
317 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
318 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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320JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
321 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
322 lines.
323
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324JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
325 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
326
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327PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
328 suffix list.
329
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330JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
331 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
332 "bare" representation.
333
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334JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
335 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
336 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
337 corrupted the output.
338
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342
343JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
344 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
345 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
346 pairs of long lines into single ones.
347
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348PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
349 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
350
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351JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
352 This permits better logging.
353
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354JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
355 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
356 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
357 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
358 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 359 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 360
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361JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
362 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
363 "exiwhat" output.
364
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365PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
366 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
367 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
368
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369JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
370 than 255 are no longer allowed.
371
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372JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
373 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
374 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
375 client, there is no benefit for these.
376 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
377 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
378 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
379 is used (3.2.4 +).
380
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381PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
382 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
383
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384JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
385 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
386 erroneously found still-pending ones.
387
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388JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
389 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
390
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391JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
392 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
393 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
394 signature and again for transmission.
395
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396JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
397 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 398 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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400JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
401 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
402 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
403 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
404 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
405 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
406 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
407
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408JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
409 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
410 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 411 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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413PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
414 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
415 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
416 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
417 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
418 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
419 processing options.
420
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421JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
422 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
423 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
424 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
425 connections.
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427PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
428 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
429 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
430 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
431 versions.
432
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433JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
434 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
435 inaccessible.
436
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437JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
438 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
439 banner-time rejection.
440
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441JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
442 callout/hold.
443
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444PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
445 is the name of a transport.
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446 Fixes bug 2140.
447
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448HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
449
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450JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
451 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
452
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453JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
454 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
455 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
456 during compilation.
457
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458JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
459 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
460 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 461 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
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463JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
464 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
465 initial verify call returned a defer.
466
ad1a76fe 467JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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468 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
469
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470JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
471 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
472
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473JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
474 if present. Previously it was ignored.
475
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476JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
477 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
478
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479JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
480 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
481 extensible.
482
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483PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
484 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
485
dc4de9cc
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486PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
487 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
488 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
489
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490JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
491 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
492 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
493 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
494
2cee425a
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495HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
496 and confused the parent.
497
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498JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
499 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
500
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501JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
502 for log purposes.
503
2540f2f8
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504JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
505 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
506 out-of-order delivery.
507
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508JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
509 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
510 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
511 error for the HELO.
512
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513JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
514 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
515 desynchronisation.
516
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517JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
518 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
519 one run was done. Bug 2189.
520
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521JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
522 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
523 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
524 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
525 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
526 message is still "Temporary local problem".
527
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528JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
529 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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530 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
531
532HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
533 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
534 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 535
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536JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
537 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
538 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
539 though a different problem.
540
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9427e879 545JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 546 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 547
7b283890
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548JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
549
4c57a40e
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550PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
551 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
552
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553JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
554 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
555
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556JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
557 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
558 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
559 before acknowledging the chunk.
560
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561PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
562 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
563 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
564
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565JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
566 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
567 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
568 should.
569
570JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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571 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
572 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 573
bd8fbe36 574JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
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575 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
576
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577JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
578 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
579 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
580 body hash calculated value.
581
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582JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
583 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
584 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
585
44e6651b
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586JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
587
588JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
589 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
590
591JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
592 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
593 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
594
595JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
596 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
597 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
598 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
599 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
600 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
601
602JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
603 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
604 past that check, despite the cost.
605
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606JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
607 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
608 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
609
f700ea4d
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610PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
611 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
612 TLS library to consume.
613
da88acae
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614PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
615
f6ef9370
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616PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
617
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618JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
619 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
620 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
621 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
622 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
623 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
624 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
625
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626PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
627
628PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
629
630PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
631 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
632 should be warning-free.
633
8b2b9480
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634JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
635
636HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
637 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
638
d953610f
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639HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
640 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
641 general solution here.
642
7dc5f827
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643PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
644 already-broken messages in the queue.
645
4bb432cb
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646JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
647
3b1a84c8
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648JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
649
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654JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
655 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 656
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657JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
658 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
659 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
660
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661JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
662 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
663 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
664 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
665 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
666 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
667 if one fails this test.
668 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
669 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
670
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671JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
672 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
673
23bb6982 674JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 675 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 676
0bd1b1ed 677JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 678 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 679
20b9a2dc
JH
680JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
681 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
682
05392bbc
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683JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
684 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
685
1a6230a3
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686JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
687
cfab9d68
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688JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
689 certificate).
690
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691JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
692 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
693 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
694 connection after a verify cache hit.
695 Do not update it with the verify result either.
696
697JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
698 when routing results in more than one destination address.
699
ae8386f0
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700JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
701 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
702 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
703 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
704 when the cutthrough connection is made).
705
0d9fa8c0
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706JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
707 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
708
3581f321
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709JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
710 Previously they were not counted.
711
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712JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
713 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
714 that needed the lookup.
715
4c04137d 716JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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717 distinguished as "(=".
718
1435d4b2
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719JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
720 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
721
eea0defe
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722JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
723
724JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
725 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 726
4c04137d 727JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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728 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
729
1c788856
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730JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
731 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
732 compatible.
733
e3b1f624
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734JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
735 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
736 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
737 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
738
a57ce043
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739JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
740
f59aaaaa 741JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
742 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
743 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 744
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745JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
746 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
747 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
748 be lost.
749
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750JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
751 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
752 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
753 itself :(
754
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755JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
756 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
757 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
758
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759JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
760 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
761 options.
762
ae5afa61
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763JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
764
317e40ac
PP
765PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
766 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
767
8b0fb68e
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768PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
769 are not in the system include path.
770
ad7fc6eb 771JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 772 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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773 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
774 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 775
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776JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
777 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
778 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
779
5ddc9771
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780JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
781
8d73599f
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782HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
783 an incoming connection.
784
446415f5
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785HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
786 to rspamd.
787
8e53a4fc
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788HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
789 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 790
87cb4a16 791JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 792 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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793
794
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798JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
799 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
800 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
801 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 802
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803TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
804 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
805
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806TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
807 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
808 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
809 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
810 outgoing I= field.
811
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812JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
813 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
814 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
815 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
816 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
817 check on the next write.
818
f1b81d81
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819HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
820 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
821 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
822 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
823 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
824
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825JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
826 mime_regex ACL conditions.
827
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828JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
829 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
830 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
831
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832JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
833 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
834 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
835 an authenticate fail is not an error.
836
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837HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
838 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
839
4c04137d 840JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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841 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
842
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843JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
844 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
845 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
846 distinct.
847
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848JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
849
850JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
851
ec0eb1a3
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852JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
853
41e93589
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854JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
855 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
856
98b98887 857JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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858 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
859
98b98887
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860JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
861
858e91c2
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862JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
863 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
864
865JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
866
6ff55e50
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867JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
868 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
869
3b957582
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870JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
871
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872JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
873 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 874 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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875 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
876 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
877 they will retry in-clear.
878 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
879 at installation time.
880
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881HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
882 with the $config_file variable.
883
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884JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
885 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
886 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
887 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 888 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 889
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890GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
891 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
892 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
893 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
894 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
895
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896JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
897
7f06582c
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898JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
899 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
900 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
901 list order is no longer honoured.
902
4c04137d 903JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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904 for DKIM processing.
905
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906JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
907 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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909JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
910 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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911 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
912 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 913
8c5d388a
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914JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
915 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
916
2d8d625b
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917JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
918 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
919
0cbf2b82
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920JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
921 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
922
f2f2c91b
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923JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
924
ce325893
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925JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
926 cached by the daemon.
927
de78e2d5
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928JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
929 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
930
379ba7d0
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931JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
932 keys are given for lookup.
933
f444c2c7
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934JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
935 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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936 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
937 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 938
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939JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
940 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
941 server-side so match that on older versions.
942
07c73177 943JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 944 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 945 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 946
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947JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
948 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
949
1bc460a6
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950JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
951 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
952 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 953 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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954 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
955 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
956 initial truncated version.
957
ab9152ff 958JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 959
67e87fcf
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960JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
961
ab9152ff
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962JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
963 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
964
af483912
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965JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
966
bc3c7bb7 967HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 968
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969JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
970 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
971 induced overflows.
972
59eaad2b
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973JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
974 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
975 stage.
976
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977JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
978 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
979
dc8091e7
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980JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
981 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
982 former class.
983
dfe7d917
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984JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
985 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
986 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
987
93cc2d6e
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988JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
989 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
990 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
991 extraction. Accept either.
992
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4c57a40e 996
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997JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
998 expanded.
999
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1000JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1001
ad07e9ad
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1002JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1003 it.
1004
01a4a5c5 1005JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1006 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
01a4a5c5
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1007 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1008 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1009
cb1d7830 1010JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1011 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1012 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1013
610ff438 1014JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1015 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1016 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1017 TLS connections
610ff438 1018
f926e272
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1019JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1020 sites use this now.
1021
50dc7409
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1022JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1023 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1024 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1025 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1026 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1027
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1028JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1029 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1030 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1031
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1032JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1033
aeaf5db3
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1034JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1035 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1036
5032d1cf
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1037JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1038 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1039
7e8360e6
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1040JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1041 /defer_ok option.
1042
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1043JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1044 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1045
fd4d8871 1046JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1047 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1048 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1049
1050JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1051 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1052 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1053
23763898
JH
1054JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1055 timeout value per server.
1056
2ad78978
JH
1057JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1058 now have the list separator specified.
1059
8a512ed5 1060JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1061 option values.
8a512ed5 1062
82c0c8ea 1063JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1064 under OpenSSL.
1065
cc00f4af
JH
1066JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1067
82c0c8ea
JH
1068JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1069 rather than the verbs used.
1070
b980ed83
JH
1071JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1072 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1073
6c9ed72e
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1074JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1075
cfab9d68 1076HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1077 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1078
f846c8f5
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1079JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1080 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1081
fd4c285c
HSHR
1082HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1083 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1084
4c04137d 1085JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1086
d2a2c69b
JH
1087JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1088
8241d8dd
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1089JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1090 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1091 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1092 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1093
1f12df4d
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1094JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1095
1f155f8e
JH
1096JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1097 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1098
1705dd20
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1099JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1100 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1101
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1102JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1103
474f71bf
JH
1104JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1105
7137ca4b
JH
1106JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1107
dcb1095c
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1108JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1109 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1110
2f460950
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1111JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1112 added for tls authenticator.
1113
2f680c0c
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1114HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1115
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1120TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1121 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1122 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1123 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1124 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1125 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1126 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1127
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1128TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1129 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1130 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1131 function when detected.
1132
a9b8ec8b
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1133JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1134 cause callback expansion.
1135
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TL
1136TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1137 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1138 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1139 instead of bool when processing it.
1140
0f06b4f2 1141JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1142 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1143
be36e572
JH
1144JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1145
ac4ef9bd
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1146JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1147
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1148TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1149
c713ca4b
TL
1150TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1151 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1152
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1153JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1154 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1155 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1156 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1157 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1158 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1159
8bc732e8
JH
1160JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1161 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1162 exceeded it.
1163
a7fec7a7
JH
1164JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1165 version 3.3.6 or later.
1166
4c04137d 1167JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1168 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1169 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1170 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1171 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1172 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1173 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1174
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1175TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1176 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1177
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1178JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1179 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1180 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1181 matches.
1182
e9477a08
JH
1183JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1184 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1185 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1186
ad4c5ff9
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1187JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1188 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1189
1190JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1191 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1192 syntax errors.
1193
3394b36a 1194JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1195
1196JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1197 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1198
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1199TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1200 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1201 tarball.
1202
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1203JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1204
4c04137d 1205JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1206 Bug 1561.
1207
1208JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1209 output list separator was used.
1210
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1214TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1215 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1216 return.
1f0ebb98 1217
a612424f 1218JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1219 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1220
1221JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1222
1223TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1224 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1225
1f0ebb98 1226
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1229
1230TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1231
1232 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1233 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1234 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1235 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1236 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1237 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1238
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1239TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1240 utilities have not been installed.
1241
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1242JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1243 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1244
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1245TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1246 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1247
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1248TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1249 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1250 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1251 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1252
aa26e137
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1253JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1254
5a1b8443
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1255TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1256 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1257
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1258PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1259 not dns_use_dnssec.
1260
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1261JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1262
770747fd
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1263TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1264 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1265 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1266
8ddef691 1267TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1268 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1269 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1270 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1271 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1272 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1273
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1274JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1275
e45a1c37
JH
1276JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1277 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1278
67d81c10
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1279JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1280 failed delivery.
1281
b1f8e4f8
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1282JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1283
511a6c14 1284JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1285
1286JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1287 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1288
51c7471d
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1289JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1290 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1291
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1292TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1293
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1294JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1295
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1296JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1297 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1298
1299 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1300 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1301 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1302
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1303TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1304 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1305 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1306 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1307
35aba663
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1308JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1309
8c51eead 1310JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1311 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1312 lookup).
8c51eead 1313
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1314TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1315 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1316 Schlichting.
35aba663 1317
fd3b6a4a 1318JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1319 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1320
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1321TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1322 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1323
2b4a568d
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1324JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1325
d2af03f4
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1326TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1327 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1328 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1329
9d1c15ef
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1330JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1331 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1332
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1333JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1334 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1335 hosts_request_ocsp.
1336
ed3bba5f 1337JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1338 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1339 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1340
8ccd00b1
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1341JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1342
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1343TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1344 Christian Aistleitner.
1345
f2de3a33
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1346JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1347
6eb02f88
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1348TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1349 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1350
00bff6f6
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1351JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1352 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1353
071c51f7
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1354JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1355 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1356
a6d4c44e
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1357TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1358 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1359
3ae173e7
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1360TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1361 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1362
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1363TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1364 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1365 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1366
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1367JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1368
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1369PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1370 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1371 Jasper Wallace.
1372
1bd0d12b
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1373JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1374
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1375TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1376 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1377 CVE-2014-2972
1378
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1383PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1384
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1385PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1386 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1387
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1388PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1389 by GnuTLS.
1390
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1391PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1392 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1393 routines.
1394
13363eba 1395PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1396
66645890 1397PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1398 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1399 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1400 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1401 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1402
a3fb9793 1403PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
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1404 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1405 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1406 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1407 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1408 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1409
d27f98fe 1410TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1411
6822b909
TL
1412TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1413
e7568d51
TL
1414TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1415 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1416
ae0e32ee 1417TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1418 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1419 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1420
1421TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1422
e2658fff
TL
1423TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1424
83712b39
TL
1425TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1426 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1427
976b7e9f
JH
1428JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1429
be4a1376
JH
1430JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1431
ec4b68e5
PP
1432PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1433
d7148a07
NM
1434NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1435 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1436
585121e2 1437JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1438
2519e60d
TL
1439PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1440 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1441 function.
a5f239e4 1442
13d08c90
PP
1443PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1444 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1445
bef3ea7f
JH
1446JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1447 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1448 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1449
846726c5
JH
1450JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1451
3a796370
JH
1452JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1453
ea722490 1454JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1455 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1456
b1b05573
JH
1457JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1458 Bugzilla 884.
1459
362145b5
JH
1460JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1461 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1462
3c0a92dc
JH
1463JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1464 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1465
6d7c6175
PP
1466PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1467 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1468 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1469
6f123593
JH
1470JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1471 authenticators.
1472
c8e2fc1e
JH
1473JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1474 for control.
1475
005ac57f
PP
1476PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1477
3f1df0e3
PP
1478PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1479 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1480 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1481 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1482
67bd1ab3
TF
1483TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1484
1485 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1486 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1487 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1488 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1489 the retry rules.
1490
1491 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1492 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1493 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1494
1495 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1496 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1497 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1498 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1499
1ddeb334
TF
1500 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1501 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1502 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1503 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1504 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1505 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1506 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1507
1508 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1509 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1510
326cdc37
TF
1511TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1512
1513 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1514
1515 Resent-From: f
1516
1517 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1518 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1519 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1520 username as equal to the username.
1521
1522 This change corrects that bug.
1523
f62514b3
GF
1524GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1525 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1526 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1527
eb505532
TF
1528TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1529
14c7b357
PP
1530PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1531 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1532 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1533 NULL dereference and crash.
1534
94eaf700
PP
1535JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1536
6f5a440a
PP
1537PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1538 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1539 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1540
514ee161
SC
1541SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1542
fd98a5c6
JH
1543JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1544 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1545 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1546 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1547 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1548 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1549 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1550 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1551 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1552 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1553 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1554
035c7f1e
PP
1555PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1556 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1557
ff284120
PP
1558PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1559 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1560 Bugzilla 880.
1561
26e72755
PP
1562PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1563 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1564 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1565 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1566 an empty string is now equivalent.
1567
0fbd9bff
PP
1568PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1569 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1570 not performing validation itself.
1571
700d22f3
PP
1572PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1573 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1574
fcc8e047
JH
1575JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1576 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1577
4c04137d 1578TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1579
8c020188
PP
1580PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1581 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1582 other false fix of the same issue.
1583 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1584 Bugzilla 1363.
1585
d13cdd30
PP
1586PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1587 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1588
e2fbf4a2
PP
1589PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1590 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1591 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1592
f4c1088b
PP
1593PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1594 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1595 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1596
c5c2182f
PP
1597TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1598
73431ca9
JH
1599JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1600
2d07a215
TL
1601TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1602 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1603
a30a8861
TL
1604TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1605 Alexander Miroch.
1606
33382dd9
TL
1607TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1608 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1609 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1610 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1611 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1612
046172e6
TL
1613TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1614 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1615
581d7bee 1616TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1617 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1618 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1619
1620TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1621 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1622 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1623 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1624
237b2cf2
TL
1625TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1626
9fc5a352
TL
1627TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1628 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1629 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1630
b10e4ec2
TL
1631TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1632
e2cebd74
TL
1633TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1634 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1635 interaction.
1636
1637TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1638 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1639
2519e60d
TL
1640TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1641 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1642
e78e6ecf 1643
4263f395
PP
1644Exim version 4.80.1
1645-------------------
1646
1647PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1648 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1649 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1650
ea722490 1651
b1770b6e 1652Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1653-----------------
1654
1655PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1656 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1657 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1658
23c7e742
NM
1659NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1660
b322aac8
NM
1661NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1662 improved.
1663
4a891427
NM
1664NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1665
c1e794ba 1666PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1667
97753960
PP
1668PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1669
1670PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1671 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1672
df6303fa
PP
1673PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1674 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1675
7e6a8985
PP
1676PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1677 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1678
f1e05cc7 1679PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1680 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1681 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1682
4c287009
PP
1683PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1684
b98bb9ac
PP
1685PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1686 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1687
4a6a987a
PP
1688PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1689
c45dd180 1690PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1691
7db8d074
PP
1692PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1693 non-compliant senders.
1694 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1695
eae0036b 1696NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1697 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1698 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1699
dec5017e
PP
1700PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1701 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1702 in spool file corruption.
1703
c80c5570
PP
1704PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1705 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1706 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1707 "Got SSL error 2".
1708
076b11e2
PP
1709TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1710 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1711 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1712
5407bfff
JH
1713JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1714 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1715
9e45c72b
PP
1716JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1717
e74376d8
PP
1718PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1719 diagnostics.
1720 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1721
4c04137d 1722PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1723 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1724 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1725
7be682ca
PP
1726PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1727 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1728 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1729 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1730
ef840681
PP
1731PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1732 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1733
5bfb4cdf
PP
1734PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1735 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1736 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1737 resolver implementation change.
1738
c6e95d22
PP
1739PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1740 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1741
9cbad13b
PP
1742PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1743
9ee44efb
PP
1744PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1745
6a6084f8
PP
1746PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1747 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1748
12dd53c7
PP
1749PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1750 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1751
9e45c72b 1752JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1753 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1754
17c76198
PP
1755PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1756 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1757 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1758 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1759 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1760
53947857 1761PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1762
eae0036b 1763PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1764 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1765 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1766
9e45c72b 1767JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1768
7390e768
PP
1769PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1770 read-only, out of scope).
1771 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1772
08488c86
PP
1773PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1774 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1775 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1776 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1777
6475bd82
PP
1778PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1779
81f91683
PP
1780PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1781 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1782 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1783 real issues in debug logging.
1784
5779e6aa
PP
1785PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1786 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1787
3375e053
PP
1788PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1789 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1790 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1791
1792PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1793 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1794 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1795 problems.
3375e053 1796
9d26b8c0
PP
1797PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1798 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1799
57eb9e91 1800PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1801 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1802 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1803 needs to override this, it can.
1804
16880d1a
PP
1805PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1806 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1807 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1808
a799883d
PP
1809PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1810 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1811 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1812 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1813
3ecab157 1814PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1815
0599f9cf 1816
867fcbf5
PP
1817Exim version 4.77
1818-----------------
1819
1820PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1821 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1822
f1a29782
TF
1823TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1824
ab42bd23
TK
1825TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1826 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1827
0ca0cf52
TF
1828TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1829 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1830
921b12ca
TF
1831TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1832 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1833 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1834
1835 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1836 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1837 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1838 not safe for signals.
1839
1840 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1841 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1842 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1843 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1844 exiwhat.
1845
c99ce5c9
TF
1846TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1847
1848 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1849 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1850 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1851 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1852 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1853
1854 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1855 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1856 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1857 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1858 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1859 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1860
1861 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1862 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1863 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1864 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1865
1866 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1867 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1868 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1869 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1870
1871 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1872 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1873 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1874 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1875 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1876 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1877 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1878 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1879 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1880
1881 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1882 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1883 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1884 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1885
1886 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1887 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1888 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1889 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1890 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1891 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1892 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1893 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1894 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1895 details in the main documentation.
1896
3634fc25
TF
1897TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1898
792e8a19
TF
1899TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1900
5901f0ab
TF
1901TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1902 repository when doing development or release builds.
1903
7f2a2a43
PP
1904PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1905 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1906
061b7ebd
PP
1907PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1908 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1909 Bugzilla 97.
1910
e12f8c32
PP
1911PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1912
9e949f00 1913PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1914 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1915
1916PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1917 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1918
555ae6af 1919PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1920 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1921
1922PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1923 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1924
6f7fe114
PP
1925PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1926 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1927
c566dd90
PP
1928PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1929 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1930 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1931 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1932
d6cc7c78 1933PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1934 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1935 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1936
0d0e4455
PP
1937PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1938
3399bb60 1939PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1940
1941PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1942 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1943
0ca0cf52 1944
10906672
PP
1945Exim version 4.76
1946-----------------
1947
1948PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1949
754a0503
PP
1950PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1951 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1952
c0c7b2da
PP
1953PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1954
e97d1f08
PP
1955PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1956
084c1d8c
PP
1957PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1958 Bugzilla 1098.
1959
4e7ee012
PP
1960PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1961 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1962
c8d52a00
PP
1963TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1964 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1965
54e7ce4a
PP
1966PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1967 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1968
5ee6f336
PP
1969PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1970 Bugzilla 1104.
1971
c8d52a00 1972TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1973 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1974
1975TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1976 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1977 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1978 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1979
1980PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1981 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1982
10906672 1983
aa097c4c
NM
1984Exim version 4.75
1985-----------------
1986
4c04137d 1987NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1988 Bugzilla 1073
1989
7f3d9eff
TF
1990TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1991 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1992 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1993
159f52d2
TF
1994TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1995 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1996
0cc9542a
PP
1997PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1998 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1999 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2000
f7274286
PP
2001PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2002 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2003
7b797365
PP
2004PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2005 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2006
caacae52
NM
2007NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2008 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2009
09dcaba9
NM
2010NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2011 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2012
bc19a55b
PP
2013PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2014 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2015
bd4c9759
NM
2016NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2017 Fixes bug 943.
2018
b72aab72
PP
2019PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2020 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2021
2fe76745
PP
2022PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2023 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2024
76aa570c
PP
2025PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2026 SQL string expansion failure details.
2027 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2028
f1e5fef5
PP
2029PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2030 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2031
4d805ee9
PP
2032PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2033 extern declarations in function scope.
2034 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2035
cd59ab18
PP
2036PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2037 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2038 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2039 a kernel bug).
2040
332f5cf3
PP
2041PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2042 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2043
29cfeb94
PP
2044PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2045 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2046
660242ad
PP
2047PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2048 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2049
bc4bc4c5
PP
2050PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2051 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2052
2e64baa9
NM
2053NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2054 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2055 Dennis Davis.
2056
4c04137d 2057PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2058
6bac1a9a
PP
2059PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2060
552193f0
NM
2061NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2062 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2063
1b587e48
TF
2064TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2065 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2066
aa097c4c 2067
8c07b69f
TF
2068Exim version 4.74
2069-----------------
2070
2071TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2072 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2073
c0ea85ab
TF
2074TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2075 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2076
0761d44e
TF
2077TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2078
0a349494
PP
2079DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2080 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2081 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2082
2083PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2084 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2085 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2086
fea24b2e
PP
2087PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2088 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2089 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2090 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2091
6545de78
PP
2092PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2093 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2094 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2095 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2096
1670ef10
PP
2097PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2098 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2099 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2100 arbitrary files.
2101
c0886197
PP
2102PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2103 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2104
b7487bce
PP
2105PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2106 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2107 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2108 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2109 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2110
8c07b69f 2111
97fd1e48 2112Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2113-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2114
2115PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2116 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2117 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2118
6901c596
PP
2119PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2120 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2121
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2122JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2123
77bb000f
PP
2124PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2125
a29e5231
PP
2126PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2127
ec5a0394 2128PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2129
55c75993
PP
2130PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2131
453a6645 2132PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2133 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2134 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2135 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2136
8544e77a
PP
2137PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2138 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2139 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2140 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2141 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2142
83e029d5
PP
2143PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2144
ed7f7860
PP
2145PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2146
7d9f747b
PP
2147PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2148
4b2241d2
PP
2149PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2150
10385c15
PP
2151PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2152
dbc4b90d
PP
2153PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2154
532be449
PP
2155PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2156
6a8de854 2157PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2158 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2159 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2160
5dc43717
JJ
2161JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2162
2163JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2164 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2165
3346ab01
PP
2166PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2167 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2168
491fab4c
PP
2169PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2170 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2171 Notification from John Horne.
2172
13eb9497
PP
2173PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2174 compatible.
2175
2176PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2177 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2178 it normally works.
2179
7f36d675
DW
2180DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2181 access.
2182
c1d94452
DW
2183DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2184 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2185 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2186
e2f5dc15
DW
2187DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2188 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2189 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2190 configuration file.
2191
cd25e41d
DW
2192DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2193 option (effectively making it always true).
2194
261dc43e
DW
2195DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2196 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2197
fa32850b
DW
2198DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2199 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2200
79d4bc3d
PP
2201PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2202 run-time user, instead of root.
2203
43236f35 2204PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2205 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2206
fb08281f
DW
2207DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2208 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2209 arguments.
3346ab01 2210
74935b98
DW
2211DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2212 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2213 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2214
90b6341f
DW
2215DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2216
57730b52
ML
2217NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2218
66581d1e 2219
465e92cf
JJ
2220Exim version 4.72
2221-----------------
2222
453a6645
PP
2223JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2224 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2225 typos
465e92cf 2226
453a6645
PP
2227JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2228 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2229 (Finput)
edae0343 2230
9bd3e22c
NM
2231NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2232 Patch from Alain Williams
2233
bb576ff7
NM
2234NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2235
5a1a5845
NM
2236NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2237 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2238
981a9fad
NM
2239NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2240 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2241
7fc497ee
NM
2242NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2243
1a41defa
JJ
2244JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2245
a466095c 2246NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2247 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2248
94a6bd0b
NM
2249TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2250
2251TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2252
2253MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2254 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2255 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2256
c1b141a8
NM
2257NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2258 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2259
b26eacf1 2260NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2261 Patch by Simon Arlott
2262
179c5980 2263PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2264 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2265
9bd3e22c 2266
7c6d71af
NM
2267Exim version 4.71
2268-----------------
2269
7d9f747b 2270TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2271
f013fb92
NM
2272NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2273
0eb8eedd
NM
2274NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2275
663ee6d9
NM
2276NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2277
177ebd9b
NM
2278NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2279
7c6d71af 2280
210f147e
NM
2281Exim version 4.70
2282-----------------
2283
cdd3bb85 2284TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2285 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2286
2287TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2288 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2289 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2290
2291TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2292 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2293 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2294
2295TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2296 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2297
210f147e
NM
2298NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2299 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2300 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2301 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2302
deafd5b3
NM
2303NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2304 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2305 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2306
089793a4
TF
2307TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2308
5f16ca82
TF
2309TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2310
dae9d94e 2311NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2312 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2313
7d9f747b 2314NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2315
06864c44
TF
2316TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2317 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2318 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2319 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2320
65a7d8c3 2321NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2322 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2323
23510047 2324TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2325
7d9f747b 2326NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2327
7d8eec3a 2328NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2329 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2330
89dec7b6
TF
2331TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2332 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2333
a99de90c
TF
2334TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2335 that they are available at delivery time.
2336
e2803e40
TF
2337TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2338
7199e1ee
TF
2339TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2340 incoming_port log selectors.
2341
e276e04b
TF
2342TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2343 setting expands to an empty string.
2344
ce552449 2345NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2346 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2347
e765a0f1 2348NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2349 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2350
4f054c63 2351NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2352 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2353
7d9f747b
PP
2354NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2355 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2356
7d9f747b
PP
2357NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2358 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2359
b52bc06e 2360NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2361 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2362
447de4b0
NM
2363NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2364
4c69d561 2365NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2366 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2367
d5c39246 2368NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2369 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2370
0b23848a
TK
2371TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2372
8f3414a1 2373NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2374 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2375
fb6f955d
NM
2376NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2377
2378NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2379
7d9f747b
PP
2380NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2381 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2382
7d9f747b
PP
2383NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2384 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2385
7d9f747b
PP
2386NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2387 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2388
7d9f747b
PP
2389NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2390 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2391
7d9f747b
PP
2392NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2393 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2394
7d9f747b
PP
2395NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2396 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2397
7d9f747b
PP
2398NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2399 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2400
7d9f747b 2401NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2402 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2403
7d9f747b 2404NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2405
7d9f747b
PP
2406NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2407 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2408
7d9f747b 2409NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2410
7d9f747b 2411NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2412
7d9f747b 2413NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2414
7d9f747b 2415NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2416
17792b53 2417NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2418 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2419
7d9f747b
PP
2420NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2421 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2422
91576cec 2423NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2424 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2425
7d9f747b
PP
2426NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2427 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2428
7d9f747b 2429NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2430
7d9f747b 2431NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2432
7d9f747b 2433NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2434
7d9f747b 2435NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2436
deafd5b3 2437
47db1125
NM
2438Exim version 4.69
2439-----------------
2440
4b3504d0
TK
2441TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2442 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2443 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2444
2445 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2446 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2447 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2448 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2449 build errors in sieve.c.
2450
81ea09ca
NM
2451NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2452 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2453 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2454
f13cddcb
SC
2455SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2456
7d9f747b 2457NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2458
7d9f747b 2459NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2460
7d9f747b 2461NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2462
2463
eb4c0de6
PH
2464Exim version 4.68
2465-----------------
2466
2467PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2468
6a3bceb1
PH
2469PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2470 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2471 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2472 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2473 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2474 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2475 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2476 for iplsearch lookups.
2477
2478 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2479 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2480 previously such lookups could never work.
2481
4c04137d 2482 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2483 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2484 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2485
2e30fa9d
TK
2486TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2487 version.
2488
0806a9c5
MH
2489MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2490 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2491 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2492 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2493 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2494 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2495
ae276964
TK
2496TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2497 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2498
0f2cbd1b
MH
2499MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2500 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2501 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2502 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2503 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2504 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2505
2b85bce7
PH
2506PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2507 local_scan API.
2508
93655c46
PH
2509PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2510
6c512171
PH
2511PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2512 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2513 encrypted.
2514
2515PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2516 by clients under certain conditions.
2517
aa6dc513
PH
2518PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2519 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2520
a96603a0
PH
2521PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2522
8f240103
PH
2523PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2524 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2525
2526PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2527
d677b2f2
PH
2528PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2529
d52120f2
PH
2530PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2531
64f2600a
PH
2532PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2533 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2534
8669f003
PH
2535PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2536
a4dc33a8
PH
2537PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2538 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2539
d6a60c0f
PH
2540PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2541
8f128379
PH
2542PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2543
8932dffe
PH
2544PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2545 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2546 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2547 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2548
ddea74fa 2549PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2550 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2551 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2552
ddea74fa 2553PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2554 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2555
ddea74fa
PH
2556PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2557
ce9f225c
PH
2558PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2559
19897d52
PH
2560PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2561
bc64a74d
PH
2562PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2563 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2564 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2565
eb4c0de6 2566
b4ed4da0
PH
2567Exim version 4.67
2568-----------------
2569
22ad45c9
MH
2570MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2571 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2572 Jan Srzednicki.
2573
b4ed4da0
PH
2574PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2575 issue a MAIL command.
2576
431b7361
PH
2577PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2578
2579 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2580
2581 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2582 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2583 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2584 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2585 item. This has been fixed.
2586
2587PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2588 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2589
83da1223
PH
2590PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2591 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2592
54fc8428
PH
2593PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2594 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2595 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2596
34c5e8dd
SC
2597SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2598
bbe15da8
PH
2599PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2600 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2601 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2602 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2603 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2604
0e8a9471
MH
2605MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2606 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2607 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2608
f0872424
PH
2609PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2610 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2611 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2612 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2613
b01dd148
PH
2614PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2615
6bf342e1
PH
2616PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2617
273f34d0
PH
2618PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2619 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2620 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2621 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2622 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2623
cf8b11a5
PH
2624PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2625
41c7c167
PH
2626PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2627 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2628 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2629 values).
2630
9c57cbc0
PH
2631PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2632
f3f065bb
PH
2633PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2634
047bdd8c
PH
2635PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2636
0ce9abe6
PH
2637PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2638
0e22dfd1
PH
2639PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2640
4c590bd1
PH
2641PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2642 no_callout_flush is set.
2643
09945f1e
PH
2644PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2645 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2646 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2647 fixed.
2648
c51b8e75
PH
2649PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2650
e28326d8 2651PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2652 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2653 other ACL rejections are.
2654
75b1493f
PH
2655PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2656 with slight modification.
2657
7c5214ec
PH
2658PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2659 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2660
4311097e
PH
2661PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2662 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2663 connection.
2664
29f89cad
PH
2665PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2666 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2667
5e687460
SC
2668SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2669
c3611384
PH
2670PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2671 expansion side effects.
2672
5a11a7b4
PH
2673PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2674 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2675 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2676 be the same.
2677
0e20aff9
MH
2678MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2679 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2680 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2681
ca86f471
PH
2682PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2683 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2684 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2685 were accidentally chopped off.
2686
a14e5636
PH
2687PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2688 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2689 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2690 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2691 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2692 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2693 pipelining has not been advertised.
2694
ec95d1a6
PH
2695PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2696
42855d71
PH
2697PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2698 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2699 This has been fixed.
2700
57c2c631
PH
2701PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2702 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2703 reported on Solaris.
2704
58c01c94
PH
2705PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2706 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2707 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2708 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2709 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2710 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2711 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2712
dee5a20a
PH
2713PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2714 cpus.
2715
d2ee6114
PH
2716PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2717
b2d5182b
PH
2718PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2719
79749a79
PH
2720PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2721 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2722 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2723 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2724 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2725 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2726
c456d9bb
PH
2727PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2728 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2729 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2730 host_all_ignored option.
2731
cd9868ec
PH
2732PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2733 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2734 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2735 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2736 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2737 is what is supposed to happen).
2738
ebeaf996
PH
2739PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2740 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2741 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2742 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2743 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2744 uses the Exim user.
2745
2679d413
PH
2746PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2747 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2748 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2749 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2750 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2751 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2752 users.
2753
84024b72
PH
2754PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2755
8005d38e
SC
2756SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2757 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2758 (Jez Hancock).
2759 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2760 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2761
3298c6c6
SC
2762SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2763
a43a27c5
PH
2764PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2765
58eb016e 2766PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2767 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2768 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2769 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2770 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2771 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2772 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2773 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2774 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2775 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2776 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2777
b43a74ea
PH
2778PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2779 advertised in response to EHLO.
2780
b4ed4da0 2781
5dd1517f
PH
2782Exim version 4.66
2783-----------------
2784
2785PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2786 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2787
2788 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2789 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2790
2791 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2792 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2793 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2794
2795 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2796 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2797 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2798 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2799 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2800
2801
93cfa765
TK
2802Exim version 4.65
2803-----------------
2804
2805TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2806 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2807 versions. (#438)
2808
d6066548
MH
2809MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2810 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2811 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2812
4362ff0d
PH
2813PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2814 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2815 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2816 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2817 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2818 rather than extend the field.
2819
93cfa765 2820
944e9e9c
TF
2821Exim version 4.64
2822-----------------
aa41d2de 2823
21d74bd9
TK
2824TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2825 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2826 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2827 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2828 these files.
2829
2830TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2831 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2832 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2833
2834TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2835 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2836 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2837
2838TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2839 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2840 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2841 in the field name.
2842
2b1c6e3a
PH
2843PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2844 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2845 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2846 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2847 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2848 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2849 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2850 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2851 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2852 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2853 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2854
1f872c80
PH
2855PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2856 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2857
2858PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2859 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2860 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2861 ignores EPIPE as well.
2862
d203e649
PH
2863PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2864 (quoted-printable decoding).
2865
cc2ed8f7 2866PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2867 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2868
ddfcd446
PH
2869PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2870
d45b1de8
PH
2871PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2872
2873PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2874
38a0a95f 2875PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2876 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2877
a2405d83
JJ
2878JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2879 in 4.64-PH/09.
2880
2881JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2882 miscellaneous code fixes
2883
6ea85e9a
PH
2884PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2885 rejections.
2886
26da7e20
PH
2887PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2888 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2889 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2890 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2891 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2892 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2893 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2894 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2895
14aa5a05 2896PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2897 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2898 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2899 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2900 function.
2901 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2902 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2903 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2904 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2905 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2906 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2907 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2908 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2909 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2910
ff75a1f7
PH
2911PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2912 decoding.
2913
e6f6568e
PH
2914PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2915 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2916 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2917 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2918 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2919 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2920 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2921 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2922
d6f6e0dc
PH
2923PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2924 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2925 list.
2926
322050c2
PH
2927PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2928 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2929 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2930 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2931 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2932 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2933 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2934 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2935 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2936 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2937 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2938 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2939 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2940
08955dd3
PH
2941PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2942 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2943 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2944 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2945 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2946 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2947 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2948
1eccaa59
PH
2949PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2950 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2951 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2952 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2953 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2954 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2955 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2956 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2957 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2958 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2959
602e59e5
PH
2960PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2961 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2962 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2963 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2964 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2965
411ef850
PH
2966PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2967 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2968 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2969 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2970 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2971 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2972 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2973
7befa435
PH
2974PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2975 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2976 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2977 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2978 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2979 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2980 been verified.
2981
48da4259 2982PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2983 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2984 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2985 and authorization.)
2986
48da4259
PH
2987PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2988 if any retry times were supplied.
2989
d1d5595c
PH
2990PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2991 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2992 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2993
0ef732d9
PH
2994PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2995
328895cc
PH
2996PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2997
fd700877
PH
2998PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2999 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3000 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3001 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3002 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3003 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3004
8dce1a6f
PH
3005PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3006 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3007
17af4a17
PH
3008PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3009 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3010 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3011
3012PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3013 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3014 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3015 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3016 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3017 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3018 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3019 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3020 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3021
3022 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3023 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3024 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3025 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3026 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3027 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3028 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3029 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3030 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3031
3032 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3033 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3034 hammering the server.
3035
c1114884
PH
3036PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3037 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3038
7a0743eb
PH
3039PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3040
0d85fa3f
PH
3041PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3042 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3043 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3044
1bf43b78
PH
3045PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3046 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3047 one case where this was not true.
3048
520de300
PH
3049PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3050 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3051 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3052 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3053 fails.
3054
48c7f9e2
PH
3055PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3056 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3057 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3058 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3059 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3060 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3061 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3062 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3063 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3064 smtp transport.
3065
99ea1c86
PH
3066PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3067 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3068 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3069 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3070
a2042e78
PH
3071PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3072 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3073
4fbcfc2e
PH
3074PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3075 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3076 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3077
aa41d2de
PH
3078PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3079
af561417
PH
3080PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3081
3cc66b45
PH
3082PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3083
194cc0e4
PH
3084PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3085 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3086 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3087 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3088
a401ddaa
PH
3089PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3090 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3091
4e88a19f
PH
3092PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3093 be meaningful with "accept".
3094
d7d7b289
SC
3095SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3096 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3097
3098SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3099 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3100 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3101
3102SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3103 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3104 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3105 there is data to show.
3106 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3107
3108SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3109 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3110 as well as the number of messages.
3111
3112SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3113 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3114 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3115
3116SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3117 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3118 have a flag are now skipped.
3119
3120SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3121 Added the -emptyok flag.
3122
3123SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3124 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3125
0ea2a468
JJ
3126JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3127 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3128 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3129
3130JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3131 match 4.64-PH/13
3132
3133JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3134 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3135
3136JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3137
3138JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3139 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3140
8a10f5a4
PH
3141PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3142
30e18802
PH
3143PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3144 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3145 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3146 contravention of the specifications.
3147
55728a4f
PH
3148PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3149 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3150 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3151
d7837193
PH
3152PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3153 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3154 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3155
87054a31
PH
3156PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3157
ea2c01d2
MH
3158MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3159 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3160 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3161 some point in the past.
3162
e4fa6968
PH
3163PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3164 transport during callout processing was broken.
3165
56f5d9bd
PH
3166PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3167 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3168
922e1c28
PH
3169PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3170 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3171
21eb6e72
PH
3172PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3173 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3174
a0540757
PH
3175PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3176
944e9e9c 3177
478be7b0
SC
3178Exim version 4.63
3179-----------------
3180
3181SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3182 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3183
3184SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3185 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3186 there is data to show.
3187 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3188
3189SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3190 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3191
2b965a65
TF
3192TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3193 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3194
45b91596
PH
3195TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3196 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3197
c59f5781
TF
3198TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3199 submissions from trusted users.
3200
90fc3069
TF
3201TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3202 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3203
6083aca0
TF
3204TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3205 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3206 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3207 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3208 there is now a framework to start from.
3209
765b530f
PH
3210PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3211 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3212 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3213
4e167a8c
PH
3214PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3215
4608d683
PH
3216PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3217
b8dc3e4a
PH
3218PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3219
5418e93b
PH
3220PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3221 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3222 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3223
b4a9bda2
PH
3224PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3225 libradius.
3226
45b91596
PH
3227PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3228 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3229 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3230
5547e2c5
PH
3231PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3232 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3233 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3234 its arguments.
3235
dbcef0ea
PH
3236PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3237 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3238 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3239 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3240 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3241
25257489
PH
3242PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3243 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3244
c816d124
PH
3245PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3246
a9ccd69a
PH
3247PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3248 operations in malware.c.
3249
75fa1910
PH
3250PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3251 signatures.
3252
a7d7aa58
PH
3253PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3254 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3255 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3256 all.
3257
42119b09
PH
3258PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3259 statements to "add_header".
3260
41609df5
PH
3261PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3262 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3263
a5bd321b
PH
3264PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3265 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3266 latter.
3267
e85a7ad5 3268PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3269 so that it is now:
3270
e85a7ad5
PH
3271 ${if or { \
3272 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3273 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3274 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3275 }{no}{yes}}
3276
e85a7ad5
PH
3277 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3278 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3279
d8fe1c03
PH
3280PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3281 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3282
16282d2b
PH
3283PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3284 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3285 any possible encoding problems.
3286
35d40a98
PH
3287PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3288 but not after initializing Perl.
3289
034d99ab
PH
3290PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3291 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3292 apparently, which is not desirable.
3293
6ec97b1b
PH
3294PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3295 queries.
3296
e22ca4ac
JJ
3297JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3298 --not options
3299
3300JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3301
33d73e3b
PH
3302PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3303 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3304 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3305 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3306
9ecb03f3
PH
3307PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3308 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3309 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3310
084efe8d
PH
3311PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3312 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3313 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3314 0.12.
3315
366fc9f0
PH
3316PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3317 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3318 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3319 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3320 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3321
c59f5781 3322
c887c79e
TF
3323Exim version 4.62
3324-----------------
3325
3326TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3327 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3328
1cce3af8
PH
3329PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3330 patch).
3331
afb3eaaf
PH
3332PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3333 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3334 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3335 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3336 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3337 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3338 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3339 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3340 451 error is used.
3341
e173618b
PH
3342PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3343
dd16e114
PH
3344PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3345 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3346 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3347
f7fd3850
PH
3348PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3349 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3350 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3351 odd errors.
3352
d87df92c
PH
3353PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3354 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3355
7e9f683d
PH
3356PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3357 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3358 option (which defaults to 0600).
3359
bfad5236
PH
3360PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3361
01c490df
PH
3362PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3363 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3364 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3365 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3366 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3367 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3368 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3369
d6629cdc
PH
3370PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3371
1cce3af8 3372
214e2000
PH
3373Exim version 4.61
3374-----------------
3375
3376PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3377 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3378 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3379 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3380 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3381 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3382 addresses as local.
3383
f9daeae0
PH
3384PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3385 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3386
7e66e54d
PH
3387PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3388
c8ea1597
PH
3389PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3390 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3391 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3392 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3393 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3394 grumble.
3395
911f6fde
PH
3396PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3397 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3398
47ca6d6c
PH
3399PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3400 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3401 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3402 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3403 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3404
ed0e9820
PH
3405PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3406 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3407 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3408 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3409
eff37e47
PH
3410PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3411 be the same on different OS.
3412
1921d2ea
PH
3413PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3414 testing.
3415
b3f69ca8
JJ
3416JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3417 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3418
3419JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3420 in 4.61-PH/06
3421
424a1c63
PH
3422PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3423 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3424 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3425 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3426 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3427 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3428 bounce message.
3429
7a100415
PH
3430PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3431 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3432 when Exim was called.
3433
19b9dc85
PH
3434PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3435 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3436
309bd837
PH
3437PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3438 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3439 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3440 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3441
59e82a2a
PH
3442PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3443 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3444 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3445 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3446 changes:
3447
3448 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3449 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3450 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3451
3452 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3453 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3454 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3455
9edc04ce
PH
3456PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3457 feature).
3458
1349e1e5
PH
3459PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3460 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3461 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3462 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3463 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3464 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3465 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3466 values from the SRV records were lost.
3467
ea49d0e1
PH
3468PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3469 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3470 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3471
064a94c9
PH
3472PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3473 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3474 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3475
727071f8
PH
3476PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3477 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3478 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3479 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3480 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3481 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3482 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3483 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3484 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3485 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3486
f78eb7c6
PH
3487PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3488 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3489 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3490
21c28500
PH
3491PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3492 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3493
3494PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3495 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3496 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3497 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3498 is given.
3499
1688f43b
PH
3500PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3501 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3502 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3503
3504PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3505 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3506 PH/23 above applies.
3507
9675b384
PH
3508PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3509 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3510 (for which there is an explicit test).
3511
6a3f1455
PH
3512PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3513
dac79d3e
PH
3514PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3515 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3516 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3517 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3518 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3519
5977a0b3
PH
3520PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3521 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3522 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3523 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3524
c91535f3
PH
3525PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3526 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3527 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3528
0d46a8c8
PH
3529PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3530
278c6e6c
PH
3531PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3532
2cbb4081
PH
3533PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3534 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3535 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3536
3eef829e
PH
3537PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3538 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3539 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3540 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3541 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3542
1ab95fa6
PH
3543PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3544 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3545 the message gets confusing).
3546
230205fc
PH
3547PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3548 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3549 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3550 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3551
75e0e026
PH
3552PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3553 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3554 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3555 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3556 same order.
3557
3558PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3559 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3560 the different processes.
3561
145396a6
PH
3562PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3563
3cd34f13
PH
3564PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3565
11121d3d
JJ
3566JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3567 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3568
3569JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3570 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3571
3572JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3573 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3574 messages matching specified criteria.
3575
8def5aaf
PH
3576PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3577
929ba01c
PH
3578PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3579 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3580
2632889e
PH
3581PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3582 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3583 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3584 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3585 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3586 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3587 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3588 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3589 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3590 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3591
944a9c55
PH
3592PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3593 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3594 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3595
4a23603b
PH
3596PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3597
4730f942
PH
3598PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3599 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3600 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3601 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3602 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3603 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3604 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3605 the variable.
3606
30dba1e6
PH
3607PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3608 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3609
382afc6b
PH
3610PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3611
a86229cf
PH
3612PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3613
50c99ba6
PH
3614PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3615
d35e429d
PH
3616PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3617 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3618 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3619 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3620 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3621 size of the count of files.
3622
f90d018c
PH
3623PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3624
75def545
PH
3625PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3626 used in LMTP mode:
3627
3628 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3629 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3630 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3631 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3632
3633 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3634 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3635 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3636
3637PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3638 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3639 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3640 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3641 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3642
c46782ef
PH
3643PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3644 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3645
71fafd95
PH
3646PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3647 will now be deprecated.
3648
2c5db4fd
PH
3649PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3650
9cf6b11a
JJ
3651JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3652 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3653 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3654
3655JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3656 with very large, slow to parse queues
3657
3658JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3659
3660JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3661
898d150f
PH
3662PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3663 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3664 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3665 SMTP output lines.
3666
46218253
PH
3667PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3668 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3669 Sieve code now uses this.
3670
e97957bc
PH
3671PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3672 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3673
81e509d7
PH
3674PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3675 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3676
3d240ff7
PH
3677PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3678
b37c4101
PH
3679PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3680 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3681 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3682 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3683 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3684
79378e0f
PH
3685PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3686 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3687 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3688 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3689
e49c7bb4
PH
3690PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3691
d114ec46
PH
3692PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3693
f3d7df6c
PH
3694PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3695 is preferred over IPv4.
3696
715ab376
PH
3697PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3698 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3699 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3700 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3701 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3702 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3703 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3704
6b31b150
PH
3705PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3706 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3707 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3708
3709PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3710
d515a917
PH
3711PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3712 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3713 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3714 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3715 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3716 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3717 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3718 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3719 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3720 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3721 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3722
9b8fadde
PH
3723PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3724 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3725 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3726
214e2000 3727
5de37277
PH
3728Exim version 4.60
3729-----------------
3730
cc38ddbf
PH
3731PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3732
3733 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3734 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3735
3736 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3737 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3738 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3739
72fdd6ae
PH
3740PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3741
3742 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3743 not a single digit.
3744
3745 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3746 string.
3747
3748 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3749 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3750 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3751 silly things.
3752
3753 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3754 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3755
3756 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3757 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3758
cb741023
PH
3759PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3760 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3761 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3762
f174f16e
PH
3763PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3764 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3765
c25242d7
PH
3766PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3767 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3768
3769 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3770
3771 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3772 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3773 this:
3774
3775 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3776
82c19f95
PH
3777PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3778 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3779 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3780 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3781 identical. For example:
3782
3783 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3784
3785 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3786 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3787 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3788
d7ffbc12
PH
3789PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3790 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3791 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3792 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3793
9f526266
PH
3794PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3795 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3796 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3797 message.
3798
87fcc8b9
PH
3799PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3800
3801 o fixes some comments
3802 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3803 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3804 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3805 and documents the missing references header update
3806
3807 and most important:
3808
3809 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3810 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3811 result)
3812
456682f5
PH
3813PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3814 Electronic Mail") by including:
3815
3816 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3817
3818 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3819 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3820 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3821 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3822 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3823
3824 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3825
3826 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3827
3828 The auto-replied keyword:
3829
3830 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3831 message by an automatic process,
3832
3833 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3834
3835 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3836 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3837
3838 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3839 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3840 other messages.
3841
3e46c1aa
PH
3842PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3843 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3844
49826d12
PH
3845PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3846
eba0c039
PH
3847PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3848 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3849 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3850
a0d6ba8a
PH
3851PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3852 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3853 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3854
f0917727
PH
3855PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3856 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3857 and treats the condition as false.
3858
096fee00
PH
3859PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3860
024bd3c2
PH
3861PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3862 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3863 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3864 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3865 not changing the active code.
3866
3867 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3868 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3869
3870 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3871 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3872
df199fec
PH
3873PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3874 (Bugzilla #53).
3875
d27f1df3
PH
3876PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3877 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3878 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3879 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3880 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3881 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3882 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3883 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3884 the text comparison.
3885
96776534
PH
3886PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3887 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3888 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3889 The same fix has been applied.
3890
5de37277 3891
9a799bc0
PH
3892Exim version 4.54
3893-----------------
3894
3895PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3896 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3897 It now does.
3898
99a4b039
PH
3899PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3900 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3901
3902PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3903
4b233853
PH
3904PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3905 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3906 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3907 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3908 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3909
8857ccfd
PH
3910TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3911 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3912 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3913 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3914 or /domain=).
3915
433a2980
PH
3916PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3917 testing suite.
3918
3e46c1aa 3919
9a799bc0 3920
e3a311ba
TK
3921Exim version 4.53
3922-----------------
3923
3924TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3925 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3926
13b685f9
PH
3927PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3928
395ff96d
PH
3929PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3930
5b68f6e4
PH
3931PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3932 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3933 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3934
1ab52c69
PH
3935PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3936 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3937 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3938
b07e6aa3
PH
3939PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3940 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3941 operating systems.
3942
254e032f
PH
3943PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3944 ${stat: expansion item.
3945
3af76a81
PH
3946PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3947 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3948
2548ba04
PH
3949PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3950 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3951 file for comments.
3952
b6c6011d
PH
3953PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3954
cf39cf57
PH
3955PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3956 setting.
3957
f1513293
PH
3958PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3959 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3960
727549a4
PH
3961TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3962
af46795e
PH
3963PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3964 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3965 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3966 the end of the subprocess.
3967
d7b47fd0
PH
3968PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3969 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3970 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3971 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3972 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3973
ee744174
JJ
3974JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3975
b582ab87
PH
3976TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3977
41a13e0a
PH
3978PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3979 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3980
f625cc5a
PH
3981PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3982
3983PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3984
21f7af35
PH
3985PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3986 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3987 HP-UX compiler.
3988
31480e42
PH
3989PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3990
2d280592
PH
3991PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3992 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3993 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3994
7cd1141b
PH
3995PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3996 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3997
3998PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3999 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4000
750af86e
PH
4001PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4002 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4003
4004 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4005 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4006
4007 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4008 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4009 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4010 contributed by a Radius user.
4011
4012PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4013 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4014
4304270b
TK
4015TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4016 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4017
750af86e
PH
4018PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4019 available.
4020
64ffc24f
PH
4021PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4022 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4023 received.
4024
5dd9625b
PH
4025PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4026 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4027 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4028 header lines when this was not necessary.
4029
5591031b
PH
4030PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4031
ba18e66a
PH
4032PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4033 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4034 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4035 exists".
4036
9cec981f
PH
4037PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4038 -bV or -d is used.
4039
aa2b5c79
PH
4040PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4041 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4042 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4043 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4044
48a53b7f
PH
4045PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4046
1c59d63b
PH
4047PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4048
671012da
TK
4049TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4050
1509d3a8
PH
4051PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4052
4053PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4054 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4055 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4056 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4057 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4058 settings.
4059
4060PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4061
2fe1a124
PH
4062PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4063 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4064 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4065 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4066 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4067 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4068 which is clearly wrong.
4069
8800895a
PH
4070PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4071
ccfdb010
PH
4072PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4073 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4074 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4075 subsequently added.
4076
1130bfb0
PH
4077PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4078 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4079
ebcb507f
PH
4080PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4081
c35e155c
PH
4082PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4083 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4084
95d1f782
PH
4085PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4086 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4087
fd6de02e
PH
4088PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4089 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4090
58de37c5
PH
4091PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4092 recipients, not senders.
4093
261cf466
TF
4094TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4095 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4096
3ee512ff
PH
4097PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4098
e08c430f
PH
4099PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4100
bef5a11f
PH
4101PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4102 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4103 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4104 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4105
7546de58
TF
4106TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4107
e5d5a95f
TF
4108TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4109 clock is set back in time.
4110
2e88a017
TF
4111TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4112 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4113
a5f65aa4
TF
4114TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4115 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4116
e7726cbf
PH
4117PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4118 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4119 (see PH/47 above).
4120
a7fdad5b
TF
4121TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4122 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4123 header rewrites.
4124
6af56900
PH
4125PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4126 type ("H").
4127
0925ede6
PH
4128PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4129
66afa403
TF
4130TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4131 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4132 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4133
0154e85a
TF
4134TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4135 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4136 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4137 helo verification defer as a failure.
4138
16f12c76
PH
4139PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4140 actual error message.
4141
bbe902f0 4142
e5a9dba6
PH
4143Exim version 4.52
4144-----------------
4145
4146TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4147
22c3b60b
PH
4148PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4149 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4150 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4151 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4152
06a9b4b5
PH
4153TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4154
c1ac6996
PH
4155PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4156 can still be requested.
4157
9c7a242c
PH
4158PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4159 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4160 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4161 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4162
87ba3f5f
PH
4163TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4164 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4165 circumstances, but probably never did.
4166
4167PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4168 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4169 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4170 in the header line.
4171
29aba418
TF
4172TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4173
fe0dab11
TF
4174TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4175 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4176
11d337a4
TK
4177TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4178
4179TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4180
415c8f3b
PH
4181PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4182 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4183 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4184 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4185 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4186 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4187
958541e9
PH
4188PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4189 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4190 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4191 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4192 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4193 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4194
c206415f
TK
4195TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4196 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4197
2a4be8f9
PH
4198PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4199 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4200
1cba11c5
SC
4201SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4202 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4203
4c04137d 4204SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4205
4206SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4207
4208SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4209
4210SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4211
4212SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4213
4214SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4215
1005d00e
TK
4216TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4217
4218TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4219 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4220 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4221
4222TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4223 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4224 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4225 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4226
9b4768fa
PH
4227PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4228 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4229 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4230
4231PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4232 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4233 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4234 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4235
0d7eb84a
PH
4236PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4237 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4238 to be made).
4239
4240PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4241 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4242 should work with maildirs and everything.
4243
40727bee
TK
4244TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4245 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4246
554d2369
TF
4247TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4248 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4249
1f922db1
PH
4250PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4251 function for BDB 4.3.
4252
ef213c3b
PH
4253PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4254
8ac170f3
PH
4255PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4256 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4257 involved.
4258
b1c749bb
PH
4259PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4260 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4261 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4262 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4263 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4264 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4265
4aac9b49
PH
4266PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4267 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4268 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4269 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4270 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4271 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4272 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4273 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4274
294520c8
TK
4275TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4276 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4277 details.
4278
5bd022fe
PH
4279PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4280 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4281
90e9ce59
PH
4282PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4283 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4284 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4285 test. It is now used for both.
4286
5ea81592
PH
4287PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4288 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4289 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4290 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4291 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4292 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4293
c6c2dc1d
PH
4294PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4295 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4296 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4297 string_vformat().
4298
fffffe4c
PH
4299PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4300 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4301 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4302
9a26b6b2
PH
4303PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4304 experimental DomainKeys support:
4305
4306 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4307 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4308 the control was given.
4309
4310 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4311
4aee0225
PH
4312PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4313
32d668a5
PH
4314PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4315
8187c3f3
PH
4316PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4317 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4318 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4319 db.h files).
4320
ff790e47 4321PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4322 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4323 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4324 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4325 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4326 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4327 course.
ff790e47 4328
5417f6d1
PH
4329PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4330 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4331 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4332 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4333 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4334 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4335
59cf8544
PH
4336PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4337 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4338 do -d+all out of habit.
4339
e7ad8a65
PH
4340PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4341 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4342 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4343
ade42478
PH
4344PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4345 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4346 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4347 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4348 record types that Exim uses.
4349
182ad5cf
PH
4350PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4351 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4352 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4353 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4354 non-existent file that was broken.
4355
b0d9fc80
TK
4356TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4357 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4358
4359TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4360 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4361 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4362
4363TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4364
47c7a64a
PH
4365PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4366 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4367 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4368 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4369 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4370 same time.
4371
a388bce4
SC
4372SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4373 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4374 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4375 at a slight CPU cost.
4376
4377SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4378 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4379
4380SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4381 by Marc Sherman.
4382
0793e4ed
SC
4383SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4384
c58b88df
PH
4385PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4386 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4387
e7ad8a65 4388
7982096b
PH
4389Exim version 4.51
4390-----------------
4391
1a46a8c5
PH
4392TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4393 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4394
2f079f46 4395TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4396
4397TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4398
4399PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4400 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4401
4402PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4403 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4404 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4405 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4406 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4407 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4408 file.
4409
4410PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4411 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4412 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4413 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4414 these two options.
4415
4416PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4417 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4418 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4419 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4420 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4421 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4422 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4423 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4424
4425PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4426 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4427
4428PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4429 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4430 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4431 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4432 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4433 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4434
4435PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4436 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4437 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4438 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4439
4440PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4441 Finch).
4442
4443PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4444 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4445
49c2d5ea
PH
4446PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4447 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4448 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4449 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4450 message.
49c2d5ea 4451
bf759a8b
PH
4452PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4453
83364d30
PH
4454PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4455 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4456
7999bbd7
PH
4457PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4458 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4459 to what was transported.)
4460
7dbf77c9
PH
4461TF/01 Added $received_time.
4462
74e0617f
PH
4463PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4464 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4465 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4466 spamd_address settings.
4467
2f079f46
PH
4468PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4469 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4470 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4471 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4472 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4473
8c841523
PH
4474PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4475
7766a4f0
PH
4476PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4477 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4478 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4479 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4480 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4481
8b417f2c
PH
4482PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4483 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4484
901f42cb
PH
4485PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4486 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4487 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4488 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4489 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4490 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4491 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4492 for failure.
4493
f9b9210e
PH
4494PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4495 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4496 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4497 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4498 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4499 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4500 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4501 "input=".
4502
54cdb463
PH
4503PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4504
cf00dad6
PH
4505PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4506 driver and ACL definitions.
4507
acb1b346
PH
4508PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4509 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4510
c5ddb310
PH
4511PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4512 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4513 understands it better than I do:
4514
4515 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4516 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4517
4518 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4519 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4520 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4521 => three warnings about OTP not working
4522 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4523
4524 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4525 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4526 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4527 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4528 for each call.)
4529 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4530 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4531
4532 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4533 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4534 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4535
31619da6
PH
4536PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4537 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4538 specified.
4539
bebaf0fc
PH
4540PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4541 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4542 "Linux".
4543
475fe28a
PH
4544PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4545 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4546 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4547
4548 warn !verify = sender
4549 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4550
4551 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4552 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4553
7e8bec7a
PH
4554PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4555
4556 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4557 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4558
4559 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4560 nomenclature these days.)
4561
e4a89c47
PH
4562PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4563 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4564
5ca2a9a1
PH
4565PH/30 In these circumstances:
4566 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4567 . First host does not offer TLS;
4568 . First host accepts first address;
4569 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4570 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4571 . Second host accepts second address.
4572 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4573 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4574 address.
7e8bec7a 4575
c688b954
PH
4576PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4577 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4578 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4579 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4580 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4581
fed77020
PH
4582PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4583 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4584
7fe1560f
PH
4585PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4586 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4587
ebb6e6d5
PH
4588PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4589 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4590 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4591
9c4e8f60
PH
4592PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4593 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4594 overlooked.
4595
4596PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4597
d7174846
PH
4598PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4599 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4600 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4601 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4602 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4603 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4604 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4605
4606 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4607 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4608 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4609 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4610 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4611
4612 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4613 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4614 routed further.
4615
cfe75fc3
PH
4616PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4617 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4618 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4619 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4620 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4621 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4622
be22d70e
PH
4623PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4624
0612b098
PH
4625PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4626 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4627 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4628 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4629 printable escape sequences.
4630
2e0c1448
PH
4631PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4632 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4633 body only.
4634
447d236c
PH
4635PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4636 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4637 are as follows:
4638
4639 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4640 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4641 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4642 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4643 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4644
4645 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4646 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4647 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4648
d20976dc
PH
4649PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4650
f656d135
PH
4651PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4652 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4653 play with."
4654
2e2a30b4
PH
4655PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4656 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4657 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4658 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4659 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4660 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4661 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4662 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4663 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4664 the log output.
4665
9176e9f0
PH
4666PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4667 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4668 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4669 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4670 "make".
4671
7982096b 4672
bbe902f0
PH
4673A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4674----------------------------------------
4675
4676Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4677changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4678needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4679in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4680that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4681release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4682from 4.43.
4683
4684I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46854.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4686those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4687historical information.
4688
4689
f7b63901 4690Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4691-----------------
4692
5fe762f6
PH
4693 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4694
139059f6 4695 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4696 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4697
7086e875
PH
4698 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4699 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4700 place.
4701
35af9f61
PH
4702 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4703 filter fails to execute.
4704
b668c215
PH
4705 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4706 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4707 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4708 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4709 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4710
a494b1e1
PH
4711 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4712
4713 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4714 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4715 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4716 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4717
c5fcb476
PH
4718 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4719 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4720 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4721 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4722 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4723
69358f02
PH
4724 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4725
5be20824
PH
472610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4727
eb2c0248
PH
472811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4729 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4730 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4731 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4732
2a3eea10
PH
473312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4734 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4735 sender verification.
4736
473713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4738 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4739
23c7ff99
PH
474014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4741
4deaf07d
PH
474215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4743 connection timeout.
4744
926e1192
PH
474516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4746 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4747
650edc6f
PH
474817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4749 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4750
2c7db3f5
PH
475118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4752 information about exactly what failed.
4753
3d235903
PH
475419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4755
7c7ad977
PH
475620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4757 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4758 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4759
981756db
PH
476021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4761 It is now set to "smtps".
4762
d4eb88df
PH
476322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4764 ignore_target_hosts.
4765
476623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4767 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4768 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4769 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4770 "[x.x.x.x]".
4771
7d468ab8
PH
477224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4773 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4774 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4775
477625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4777 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4778 wake it up if nothing else does.
4779
62c0818f
PH
478026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4781 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4782 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4783 end up negative.
4784
26034054
PH
478527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4786 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4787
af66f652
PH
478828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4789
90af77f4
PH
479029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4791 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4792 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4793 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4794 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4795 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4796 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4797 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4798
d8ef3577
PH
479930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4800 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4801 than one IP address.
4802
5cb8cbc6
PH
480331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4804 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4805 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4806 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4807
14702f5b
PH
480832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4809 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4810 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4811 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4812 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4813 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4814
063b1e99
PH
481533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4816 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4817 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4818 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4819
652e1b65
PH
482034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4821 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4822 respected.
4823
6f0c9a4f
PH
482435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4825 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4826 $sender_host_address.
4827
33397d19
PH
482836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4829 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4830 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4831 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4832 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4833 very small.
4834
7bb56e1f
PH
483537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4836
4837 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4838 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4839
ea3bc19b
PH
4840 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4841 just the host names, not the priorities.
4842
4843 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4844 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4845 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4846
ea3bc19b 4847 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4848 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4849
0bcb2a0e
PH
485038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4851 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4852 domain.
4853
2ac0e484
PH
485439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4855
4e1fde53
PH
485640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4857 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4858
de365ded
PH
485941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4860 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4861 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4862
f05da2e8
PH
486342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4864
d6453af2
PH
486543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4866
f7b63901
PH
486744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4868
486945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4870 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4871 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4872 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4873 because the tests only now provoked it.
4874
a444213a
PH
487546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4876 (this can affect the format of dates).
4877
0ec020ea
PH
487847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4879 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4880 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4881 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4882
b1206957
PH
488348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4884
488549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4886 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4887 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4888 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4889
26dd5a95
PH
489050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4891 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4892 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4893
343b2385
PH
489451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4895 autoreply.
4896
1c5466b9
PH
489752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4898 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4899 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4900 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4901 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4902 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4903 is going on).
4904
55ee9ee3
PH
490553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4906 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4907 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4908 the line.
4909
d38f8232
PH
491054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4911 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4912 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4913
4914 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4915 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4916 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4917 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4918 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4919 so I produce this patch..."
4920
3295e65b
PH
4921 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4922 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4923 is not defined.
4924
7102e136
PH
492555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4926 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4927 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4928 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4929 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4930
3ca0ba97
PH
493156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4932
c2bcbe20
PH
493357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4934 long debug lines gets shown.
4935
18ce445d
PH
493658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4937 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4938
1f5b4c3d
PH
493959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4940
4941 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4942 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4943 of $primary_hostname.
4944
b975ba52
PH
494560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4946 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4947 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4948 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4949 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4950 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4951 by change 4.50/55 above.
4952
4953 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4954 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4955 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4956 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4957 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4958 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4959 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4960
496161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4962 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4963 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4964 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4965
17ffcae7
PH
496662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4967 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4968
d95f9fdb
PH
496963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4970 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4971 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4972 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4973 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4974
86b8287f
PH
497564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4976 This has been fixed.
4977
60dc5e56
PH
497865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4979 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4980 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4981 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4982 the caching.)
4983
533244af
PH
498466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4985
a5a28604
PH
498667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4987 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4988 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4989 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4990
7e634d24
PH
499168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4992 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4993
3e11c26b
PH
499469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4995 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4996 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4997
6729cf78
PH
499870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4999 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5000 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5001 message there.
5002
00f00ca5
PH
500371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5004 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5005 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5006
c9bdd01c
PH
500772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5008 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5009 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5010 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5011
d43194df
PH
501273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5013 during host lookups.
5014
fe5b5d0b
PH
501574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5016 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5017
5018 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5019
76a2d7ba
PH
502075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5021 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5022 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5023 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5024 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5025 background.
5026
502776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5028 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5029
04f7d5b9
PH
503077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5031 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5032 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5033
bc60667e
PH
503478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5035
bb6e88ff
PH
503679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5037 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5038 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5039 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5040 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5041 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5042 process earlier.
5043
1e70f85b
PH
504480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5045 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5046 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5047 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5048 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5049
505081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5051 tables).
5052
4e01f9d6
PH
505382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5054
1ee1cef2
PH
505583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5056 "vacation" handling.
5057
6e2b4ccc
PH
505884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5059 OS variants using glibc.
5060
8e669ac1
PH
506185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5062
495ae4b0 5063
bbe902f0
PH
5064----------------------------------------------------
5065See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5066----------------------------------------------------
5067
5068
5069Exim version 4.44
5070-----------------
5071
5072 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5073 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5074 transport
5075
5076 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5077 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5078 place.
5079
5080 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5081 filter fails to execute.
5082
5083 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5084 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5085 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5086 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5087 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5088
5089 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5090 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5091 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5092 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5093
5094 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5095 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5096 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5097 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5098 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5099
5100 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5101
5102 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5103 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5104 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5105 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5106
5107 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5108 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5109 sender verification.
5110
511110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5112 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5113
511411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5115 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5116
511712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5118 ignore_target_hosts.
5119
512013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5121 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5122 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5123 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5124 "[x.x.x.x]".
5125
512614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5127 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5128 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5129
513015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5131 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5132 wake it up if nothing else does.
5133
513416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5135 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5136 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5137 end up negative.
5138
513917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5140 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5141
ea3a6f44 514218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5143
514419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5145 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5146 empty pattern.
5147
514820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5149 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5150 one IP address.
5151
ea3a6f44
NM
515221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5153 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5154 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5155 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5156 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5157 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5158
ea3a6f44
NM
515922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5160 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5161 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5162
516323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5164 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5165 $sender_host_address.
5166
516724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5168
ea3a6f44
NM
516925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5170 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5171 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5172
517326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5174 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5175
ea3a6f44
NM
517627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5177 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5178
ea3a6f44
NM
517928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5180 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5181 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5182 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5183
518429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5185 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5186 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5187
ea3a6f44
NM
518830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5189 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5190 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5191 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5192
ea3a6f44
NM
519331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5194 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5195 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5196
ea3a6f44
NM
519731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5198 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5199
ea3a6f44
NM
520032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5201 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5202 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5203 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5204 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5205 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5206 is going on).
bbe902f0 5207
ea3a6f44
NM
520833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5209 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5210 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5211 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5212 CAN-2005-0021
5213
ea3a6f44
NM
521434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5215 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5216 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5217 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5218 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5219 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5220 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5221
5222 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5223 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5224 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5225 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5226 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5227 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5228 CAN-2005-0021
5229
ea3a6f44
NM
523035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5231 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5232 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5233 CAN-2005-0022
5234
ea3a6f44
NM
523536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5236 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5237 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5238 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5239 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5240
ea3a6f44
NM
524137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5242 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5243 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5244 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5245 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5246
ea3a6f44
NM
524738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5248 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5249 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5250 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5251 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5252
5253
495ae4b0
PH
5254Exim version 4.43
5255-----------------
5256
5257 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5258 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5259 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5260 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5261 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5262 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5263 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5264
5265 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5266 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5267 the delivery.
5268
5269 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5270
5271 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5272
5273 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5274 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5275 to local_scan().
5276
5277 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5278 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5279 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5280 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5281 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5282
5283 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5284 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5285
5286 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5287
5288 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5289
529010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5291 header_sender only.
5292
529311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5294 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5295
529612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5297 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5298 affecting debugging statements).
5299
530013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5301
530214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5303 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5304 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5305 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5306 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5307 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5308 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5309 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5310 after the received time, and all would be well.
5311
531215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5313 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5314 condition in an expansion string.
5315
531616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5317
531817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5319 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5320 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5321 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5322 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5323 job under whatever limits there are.
5324
532518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5326
532719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5328 space).
5329
533020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5331 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5332 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5333 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5334 return path is set.
5335
533621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5337 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5338 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5339 binary data in such strings.
5340
534122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5342
534323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5344 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5345 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5346 failure, which is pointless.
5347
534824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5349
535025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5351
535226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5353 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5354 Sender: header lines.
5355
535627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5357 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5358 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5359
536028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5361 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5362 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5363 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5364 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5365 happens.
5366
536729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5368 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5369 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5370 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5371 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5372
537330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5374 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5375 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5376 1024.
5377
537831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5379 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5380
538132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5382 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5383
538433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5385
538632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5387
538833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5389
539034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5391 syntax error.
5392
539335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5394
539536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5396
539737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5398 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5399 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5400 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5401
540238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5403 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5404
5405
5406Exim version 4.42
5407-----------------
5408
5409 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5410 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5411 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5412 it was not quoted.
5413 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5414 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5415 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5416 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5417 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5418 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5419
5420 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5421 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5422 verification failure".
5423
5424 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5425 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5426 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5427 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5428
5429 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5430 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5431 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5432 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5433 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5434 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5435 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5436 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5437 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5438 treated as a timeout.
5439
5440 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5441 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5442 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5443 not set for Exim filters).
5444
5445 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5446 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5447 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5448
5449 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5450
5451 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5452 try to make them clearer.
5453
5454 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5455 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5456
5457 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5458
5459 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5460
546110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5462 only the Cygwin environment.
5463
546411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5465 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5466 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5467 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5468 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5469
547012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5471 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5472 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5473 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5474 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5475 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5476 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5477
547813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5479 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5480
548114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5482
5483 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5484 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5485 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5486
5487 To: susanne@some.where
5488
5489 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5490 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5491 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5492 of addresses in From: header lines).
5493
5494 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5495 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5496 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5497
5498 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5499 treated as non-personal.
5500
5501 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5502 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5503
550415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5505
550616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5507
550817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5509 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5510 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5511
551218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5513 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5514
551519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5516 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5517 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5518 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5519 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5520 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5521
552220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5523 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5524 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5525 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5526 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5527 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5528 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5529 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5530
5531 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5532
553321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5534 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5535
553622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5537 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5538 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5539
554023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5541 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5542
554324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5544 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5545 rather than long int.
5546
554725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5548
554926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5550
5551
5552Exim version 4.41
5553-----------------
5554
5555 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5556 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5557 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5558 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5559 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5560 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5561
5562
5563Exim version 4.40
5564-----------------
5565
5566 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5567 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5568
5569 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5570 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5571 socklen_t is defined.
5572
5573 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5574 always exist.
5575
5576 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5577 configured.
5578
5579 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5580 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5581 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5582 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5583 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5584
5585 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5586 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5587 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5588 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5589
5590 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5591 of flapping under certain conditions.
5592
5593 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5594 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5595 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5596
5597 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5598
559910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5600
560111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5602 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5603 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5604 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5605
560612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5607 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5608 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5609 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5610 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5611 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5612 preserved with the message after it was received.
5613
561413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5615 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5616 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5617 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5618 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5619 test suite worked just fine.
5620
562114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5622 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5623 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5624
562515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5626 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5627 string.
5628
562916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5630 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5631 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5632 does not fully solve it.
5633
563417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5635 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5636 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5637 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5638 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5639
564018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5641 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5642 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5643
564419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5645 string, for example:
5646
5647 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5648
5649 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5650 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5651 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5652 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5653 the routers could not see them.
5654
565520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5656 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5657
565821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5659 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5660 output).
5661
566222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5663 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5664 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5665 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5666 that needed quoting.
5667
566823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5669 was not being matched caselessly.
5670
567124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5672 backslashes.
5673
567425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5675 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5676 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5677 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5678 when use_sender is false.
5679
568026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5681
568227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5683
568428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5685
568629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5687 the configuration file.
5688
568930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5690 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5691
569231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5693
569432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5695 bytes in the message body.
5696
569733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5698 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5699 delivery.
5700
570134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5702
570335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5704
570536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5706 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5707 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5708 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5709 another IP address.
5710
5711
5712Exim version 4.34
5713-----------------
5714
5715 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5716 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5717
5718 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5719 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5720 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5721 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5722 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5723
5724 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5725 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5726
5727 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5728 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5729 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5730
5731 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5732 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5733 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5734
5735 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5736 for routers.
5737
5738 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5739 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5740 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5741 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5742 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5743 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5744 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5745
5746
5747Exim version 4.33
5748-----------------
5749
5750 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5751 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5752 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5753 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5754 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5755 default (and expected) setting.
5756
5757 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5758 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5759 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5760 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5761
5762 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5763 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5764
5765 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5766 in domain lists.
5767
5768 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5769 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5770 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5771 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5772 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5773 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5774
5775 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5776 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5777 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5778
5779 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5780 part (NOT match_host).
5781
5782 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5783
5784 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5785 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5786 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5787 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5788 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5789 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5790 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5791 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5792 the same named file.
5793
579410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5795 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5796 when Exim is built.
5797
579811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5799 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5800 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5801 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5802 a host name.
5803
580412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5805 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5806 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5807
580813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5809
581014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5811
581215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5813
581416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5815 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5816
581717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5818 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5819 before starting the TLS session.
5820
582118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5822
582319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5824 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5825
582620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5827 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5828 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5829 colon in the middle).
5830
5831
5832Exim version 4.32
5833-----------------
5834
5835 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5836 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5837 multiple configurations are in use.
5838
5839 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5840 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5841 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5842 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5843 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5844 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5845
5846 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5847 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5848
5849 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5850 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5851 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5852
5853 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5854 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5855 occurs.
5856
5857 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5858 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5859
5860 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5861
5862 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5863 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5864
5865 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5866
5867 -prval:sval
5868
5869 is equivalent to
5870
5871 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5872
5873 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5874 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5875 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5876 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5877 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5878
587910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5880 Exim's behaviour:
5881
5882 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5883 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5884 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5885 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5886 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5887 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5888
5889 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5890 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5891 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5892 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5893 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5894 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5895 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5896 string.
5897
5898 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5899 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5900 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5901 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5902 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5903
590411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5905
590612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5907 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5908 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5909
591013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5911
591214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5913 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5914 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5915 information.
5916
591715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5918 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5919
592016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5921 Three changes have been made:
5922
5923 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5924 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5925 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5926 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5927 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5928
5929 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5930 been restored.
5931
5932 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5933 the modified behaviour.
5934
5935
5936Exim version 4.31
5937-----------------
5938
5939 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5940 Larry Rosenman.
5941
5942 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5943 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5944
5945 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5946 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5947 try to track down a specific problem.
5948
5949 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5950 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5951 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5952
5953 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5954 warning.
5955
5956 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5957 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5958 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5959 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5960 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5961 some earlier ones do not.
5962
5963 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5964
5965 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5966 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5967 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5968 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5969 address literals are enabled, of course).
5970
5971 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5972
597310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5974 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5975 by a command such as
5976
5977 exim -f "" ...
5978
5979 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5980
598111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5982
598312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5984 remained set. It is now erased.
5985
598613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5987 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5988
598914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5990 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5991 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5992 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5993 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5994 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5995 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5996 appropriate error code.
5997
599815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5999 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6000 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6001 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6002 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6003 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6004
600516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6006 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6007 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6008
600917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6010 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6011 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6012 terminate the header.
6013
601418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6015 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6016 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6017
601819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6019 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6020 (4.30/29). In particular:
6021
6022 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6023 imposed.
6024
6025 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6026 to write a maildirsize file.
6027
6028 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6029 the transport, the new value overrides.
6030
6031 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6032 count.
6033
603420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6035 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6036 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6037 space or a tab.
6038
603921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6040 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6041 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6042 the fallback hosts.
6043
604422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6045 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6046 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6047
604823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6049 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6050 using a union.
6051
605224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6053 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6054 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6055
605625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6057
605826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6059
606027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6061
606228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6063 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6064 become corrupted.
6065
606629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6067 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6068 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6069 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6070 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6071 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6072 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6073 too great.
6074
607530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6076 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6077 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6078 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6079 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6080 incorrectly.
6081
608231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6083 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6084 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6085 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6086 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6087 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6088 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6089 cached value only when the same options are set.
6090
609132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6092
609333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6094 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6095 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6096 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6097 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6098
609934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6100 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6101 it is clearly obsolete.
6102
610335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6104 transport.
6105
610636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6107 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6108 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6109 times.
6110
611137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6112 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6113 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6114 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6115 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6116
611738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6118 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6119 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6120 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6121
612239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6123
6124 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6125
6126 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6127 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6128 2^31.
6129
613040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6131 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6132 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6133 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6134 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6135 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6136 $localpart_data.
6137
613841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6139 with the -f command-line option.
6140
614142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6142 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6143 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6144 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6145 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6146 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6147
614843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6149 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6150 line.
6151
615244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6153 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6154 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6155 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6156 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6157 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6158 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6159 buffer is too small.
6160
616145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6162 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6163
616446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6165 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6166 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6167 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6168 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6169 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6170 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6171 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6172 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6173
617447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6175 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6176 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6177
617848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6179 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6180 ACL").
6181
618249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6183 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6184 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6185 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6186 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6187
618850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6189 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6190 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6191 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6192 is set.
6193
619451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6195
619652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6197
619853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6199 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6200
620154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6202 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6203 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6204
620555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6206 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6207 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6208 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6209 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6210
621156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6212 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6213 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6214 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6215 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6216 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6217 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6218
621957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6220 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6221 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6222 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6223 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6224 the test of how many are available.
6225
622658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6227 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6228 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6229 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
6230 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6231 new message is started.
6232
623359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6234 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6235
623660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6237 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6238
623961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6240 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6241 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6242 is no long logged.
6243
624462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6245 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6246 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6247 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6248 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6249 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6250 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6251
625263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6253 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6254 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6255 interpreted as octal.
6256
625764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6258 setting.
6259
626065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6261 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6262 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6263 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6264 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6265 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6266
626766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6268 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6269 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6270 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6271
6272 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6273 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6274 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6275 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6276
6277 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6278 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6279 is a bug fix.
6280
6281 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6282 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6283
628467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6285
628668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6287 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6288 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6289 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6290
629169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6292 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6293 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6294 supplied", which is not helpful.
6295
629670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6297 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6298 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6299
630071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6301 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6302 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6303 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6304 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6305 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6306 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6307 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6308
630972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6310 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6311 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6312 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6313 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6314
631573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6316 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6317 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6318 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6319 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6320 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6321
632274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6323 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6324 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6325
632675. Added write_rejectlog option.
6327
632876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6329 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6330 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6331 variables.
6332
633377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6334
633578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6336 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6337 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6338 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6339 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6340 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6341 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6342 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6343
634479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6345 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6346 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6347 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6348 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6349
635080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6351 Haardt.
6352
635381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6354 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6355 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6356 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6357 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6358 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6359 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6360 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6361 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6362
6363
6364Exim version 4.30
6365-----------------
6366
6367 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6368 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6369 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6370
6371 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6372 fixed.
6373
6374 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6375 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6376 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6377
6378 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6379 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6380 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6381 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6382 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6383 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6384
6385 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6386 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6387 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6388 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6389 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6390 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6391 the Exim test suite.
6392
6393 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6394 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6395 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6396 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6397
6398 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6399 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6400 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6401 specify it in this variable.
6402
6403 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6404 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6405 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6406 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6407
6408 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6409 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6410 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6411 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6412
6413 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6414 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6415 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6416 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6417 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6418
6419 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6420
642110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6422 they are logged.
6423
642411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6425 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6426 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6427 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6428 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6429
643012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6431 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6432
643313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6434 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6435 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6436 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6437 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6438
643914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6440 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6441
644215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6443 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6444 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6445
644616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6447 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6448
644917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6450 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6451
645218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6453 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6454 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6455
645619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6457 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6458
645920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6460 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6461 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6462 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6463
646421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6465
646622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6467 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6468 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6469 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6470
647123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6472
647324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6474 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6475
647625. Added .include_if_exists.
6477
647826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6479 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6480 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6481 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6482 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6483 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6484
648527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6486
648728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6488 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6489 this.
6490
649129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6492
649330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6494 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6495
6496 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6497 550 Sender verify failed
6498
6499 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6500 the final line of the response.
6501
650231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6503 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6504 all other user lookups.
6505
650632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6507 delivery time.
6508
650933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6510 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6511 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6512 result into an int without checking.
6513
651434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6515 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6516 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6517
651835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6519 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6520 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6521 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6522
652336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6524 correctly.
6525
652637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6527 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6528
652938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6530 to the empty sender.
6531
653239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6533 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6534 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6535 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6536 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6537 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6538 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6539 panic log.
6540
654140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6542 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6543 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6544 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6545 used.
6546
654741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6548 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6549
655042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6551 timestamps.
6552
655343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6554 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6555
655644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6557
655845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6559 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6560 logs.
6561
656246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6563 as soon as it is encountered.
6564
656547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6566
656748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6568 rewritten to "<>".
6569
657049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6571 recognizes a tab character.
6572
657350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6574 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6575 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6576 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6577
657851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6579
658052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6581 crash.
6582
658353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6584
658554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6586
658755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6588 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6589 2822.
6590
659156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6592 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6593 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6594 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6595 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6596
659757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6598 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6599
660058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6601 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6602 list (.included file names were always shown).
6603
660459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6605 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6606 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6607 root at that time.
6608
660960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6610 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6611
661261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6613
661462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6615
661663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6617
661864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6619 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6620 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6621 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6622 failures to open the logs.
6623
662465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6625 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6626 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6627 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6628 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6629 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6630 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6631
6632
6633Exim version 4.24
6634-----------------
6635
6636 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6637 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6638 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6639 change 4.23/1.
6640
6641 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6642 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6643 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6644
6645 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6646 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6647 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6648
6649 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6650 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6651 causing some misleading effects.
6652
6653 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6654 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6655 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6656
6657 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6658 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6659 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6660 queue-runner function directly.
6661
6662
6663Exim version 4.23
6664-----------------
6665
6666 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6667 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6668
6669 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6670 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6671 was always written to the default place.
6672
6673 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6674 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6675 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6676
6677 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6678
6679 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6680
6681 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6682 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6683 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6684
6685 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6686 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6687 must start.
6688
6689 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6690 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6691 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6692
6693 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6694 command line option is disabled.
6695
6696 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6697 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6698
6699 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6700
6701 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6702
6703 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6704 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6705
670610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6707
670811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6709 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6710 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6711 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6712 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6713 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6714
671512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6716 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6717 timeout.
6718
671913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6720 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6721
672214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6723 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6724
672515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6726 received was valid base64.
6727
672816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6729 name of the variable that was being set.
6730
673117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6732
673318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6734 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6735 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6736 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6737 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6738 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6739
674019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6741
674220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6743 nor realm was specified.
6744
674521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6746 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6747 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6748 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6749
675022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6751 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6752 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6753
675423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6755 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6756 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6757
675824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6759 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6760 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6761 some systems use these upper case variants.
6762
676325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6764 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6765 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6766 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6767
676826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6769
677027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6771 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6772
677328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6774 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6775 expansion variable.
6776
677729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6778
677930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6780 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6781 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6782 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6783
678431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6785 using it.
6786
678732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6788 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6789 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6790
679133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6792 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6793
679434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6795 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6796 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6797 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6798
679935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6800 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6801 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6802
680336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6804
680537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6806 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6807 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6808 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6809 aborted.
6810
681138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6812 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6813 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6814
681539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6816
681740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6818 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6819
682041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6821 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6822
682342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6824 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6825 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6826 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6827 when emails are that large.
6828
6829
6830
6831Exim version 4.22
6832-----------------
6833
6834 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6835 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6836
6837 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6838 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6839 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6840
6841 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6842 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6843 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6844
6845 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6846 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6847 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6848 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6849 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6850
6851 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6852 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6853 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6854 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6855 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6856 ever.
6857
6858 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6859 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6860 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6861 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6862 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6863 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6864 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6865 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6866 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6867 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6868 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6869 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6870 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6871 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6872
6873 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6874 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6875 parameterised it.
6876
6877 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6878 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6879 error should be diagnosed.
6880
6881 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6882 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6883 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6884 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6885 appeared instead of "NULL".
6886
688710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6888 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6889 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6890 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6891 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6892 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6893 proceeds).
6894
6895 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6896 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6897 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6898
6899
6900Exim version 4.21
6901-----------------
6902
6903 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6904 or receiver verification errors.
6905
6906 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6907 name.
6908
6909 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6910 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6911 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6912 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6913
6914 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6915 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6916 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6917 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6918 shouldn't happen again.
6919
6920 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6921 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6922 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6923
6924 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6925 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6926
6927 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6928
6929 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6930 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6931
6932 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6933 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6934 RFC.
6935
693610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6937 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6938 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6939
694011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6941 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6942 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6943 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6944
694512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6946 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6947 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6948 to define what should happen).
6949
695013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6951 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6952 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6953
695414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6955
695615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6957
695816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6959 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6960
4c04137d 696117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6962 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6963 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6964 structure in all cases.
6965
6966 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6967 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6968 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6969 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6970
697118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6972 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6973 domain name.
6974
697519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6976 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6977
697820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6979 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6980
698121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6982 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6983 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6984
698522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6986 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6987 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6988
698923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6990 the book and for uniformity.
6991
699224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6993
699425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6995 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6996 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6997 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6998 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6999 non-existent command as the problem.
7000
700126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7002 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7003 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7004
700527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7006
700728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7008 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7009 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7010
701129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7012 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7013 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7014 timestamps using strftime().
7015
701630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7017 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7018
701932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7020 transport-time rewrites.
7021
702233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7023 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7024 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7025 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7026
702734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7028 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7029
703035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7031 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7032 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7033 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7034 comma and a space.
7035
703636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7037 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7038 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7039 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7040 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7041 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7042 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7043
704437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7045 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7046 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7047 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7048 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7049
705038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7051 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7052 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7053 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7054 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7055 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7056 remaining text gets split now.
7057
705839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7059 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7060 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7061 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7062
706340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7064 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7065 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7066 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7067 $return_path.
7068
706941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7070 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7071 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7072 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7073 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7074 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7075 passed through if needed.
7076
707742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7078 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7079 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7080 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7081 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7082 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7083
708443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7085 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7086 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7087 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7088 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7089
709044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7091 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7092 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7093 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7094 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7095
709645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7097 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7098 noticed.
7099
710046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7101 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7102 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7103 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7104 mayhem of various kinds.
7105
710647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7107 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7108 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7109 the right test for positive values.
7110
711148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7112 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7113 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7114 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7115 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7116 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7117 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7118 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7119 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7120 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7121 envelope.
7122
712349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7124 module.
7125
712650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7127 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7128 forbidding it.
7129
713051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7131 the existing equality matching.
7132
713352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7134 dealing with inode numbers.
7135
713653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7137 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7138 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7139
714054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7141 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7142 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7143 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7144 local_scan().
7145
714655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7147 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7148 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7149 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7150 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7151 relay addresses has also been removed.
7152
715356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7154
715557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7156 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7157 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7158
715958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7160 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7161 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7162 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7163 processing applies to CR:
7164
7165 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7166 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7167
7168 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7169 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7170 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7171 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7172
717359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7174 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7175 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7176
717760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7178 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7179 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7180 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7181 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7182 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7183 arisen.
7184
718561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7186 program routers.
7187
718862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7189 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7190 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7191 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7192 adds:
7193
7194 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7195
7196 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7197
7198 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7199
720063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7201 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7202 not considered personal.
7203
720464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7205
720665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7207
720866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7209
721067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7211 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7212 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7213 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7214 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7215 header lines, and spool format errors.
7216
721768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7218 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7219 for more flexibility.
7220
722169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7222 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7223 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7224
722570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7226 Sabourenkov.
7227
722871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7229 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7230 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7231 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7232 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7233 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7234 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7235 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7236 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7237
723872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7239 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7240 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7241 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7242 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7243 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7244 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7245
724673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7247 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7248 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7249
725074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7251 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7252 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7253 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7254 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7255 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7256 instead of killing the process with assert().
7257
725875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7259 than Unicode encoding.
7260
726176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7262 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7263 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7264 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7265
726677. Added process_log_path.
7267
726878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7269 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7270
727179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7272 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7273
727480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7275 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7276 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7277
727881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7279 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7280 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7281 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7282 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7283 were applied:
7284
7285 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7286 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7287 as invalid.
7288
728982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7290 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7291 they will be used during message reception.
7292
7293
7294Exim version 4.20
7295-----------------
7296
7297The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7298
7299****