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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 4.90
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
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9427e879 68JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 69 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
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71JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
72
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73PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
74 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
75
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76JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
77 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
78
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79JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
80 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
81 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
82 before acknowledging the chunk.
83
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84PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
85 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
86 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
87
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88JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
89 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
90 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
91 should.
92
93JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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94 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
95 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 97JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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98 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
99
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100JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
101 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
102 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
103 body hash calculated value.
104
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105JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
106 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
107 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
108
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109JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
110
111JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
112 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
113
114JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
115 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
116 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
117
118JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
119 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
120 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
121 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
122 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
123 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
124
125JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
126 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
127 past that check, despite the cost.
128
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129JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
130 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
131 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
132
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133PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
134 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
135 TLS library to consume.
136
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137PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
138
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139PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
140
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141JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
142 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
143 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
144 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
145 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
146 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
147 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
148
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149PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
150
151PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
152
153PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
154 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
155 should be warning-free.
156
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157JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
158
159HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
160 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
161
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162HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
163 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
164 general solution here.
165
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166PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
167 already-broken messages in the queue.
168
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169JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
170
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171JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
172
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174Exim version 4.88
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177JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
178 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 179
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180JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
181 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
182 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
183
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184JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
185 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
186 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
187 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
188 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
189 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
190 if one fails this test.
191 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
192 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
193
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194JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
195 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
196
23bb6982 197JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 198 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 199
0bd1b1ed 200JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 201 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 202
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203JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
204 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
205
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206JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
207 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
208
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209JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
210
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211JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
212 certificate).
213
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214JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
215 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
216 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
217 connection after a verify cache hit.
218 Do not update it with the verify result either.
219
220JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
221 when routing results in more than one destination address.
222
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223JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
224 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
225 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
226 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
227 when the cutthrough connection is made).
228
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229JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
230 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
231
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232JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
233 Previously they were not counted.
234
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235JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
236 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
237 that needed the lookup.
238
4c04137d 239JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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240 distinguished as "(=".
241
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242JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
243 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
244
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245JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
246
247JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
248 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 249
4c04137d 250JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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251 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
252
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253JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
254 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
255 compatible.
256
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257JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
258 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
259 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
260 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
261
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262JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
263
f59aaaaa 264JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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265 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
266 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 267
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268JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
269 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
270 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
271 be lost.
272
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273JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
274 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
275 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
276 itself :(
277
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278JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
279 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
280 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
281
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282JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
283 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
284 options.
285
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286JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
287
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288PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
289 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
290
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291PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
292 are not in the system include path.
293
ad7fc6eb 294JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 295 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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296 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
297 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 298
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299JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
300 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
301 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
302
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303JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
304
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305HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
306 an incoming connection.
307
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308HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
309 to rspamd.
310
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311HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
312 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 313
87cb4a16 314JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 315 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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316
317
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318Exim version 4.87
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321JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
322 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
323 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
324 client dropping the TLS connection.
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326TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
327 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
328
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329TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
330 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
331 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
332 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
333 outgoing I= field.
334
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335JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
336 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
337 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
338 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
339 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
340 check on the next write.
341
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342HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
343 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
344 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
345 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
346 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
347
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348JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
349 mime_regex ACL conditions.
350
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351JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
352 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
353 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
354
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355JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
356 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
357 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
358 an authenticate fail is not an error.
359
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360HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
361 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
362
4c04137d 363JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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364 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
365
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366JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
367 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
368 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
369 distinct.
370
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371JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
372
373JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
374
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375JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
376
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377JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
378 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
379
98b98887 380JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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381 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
382
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383JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
384
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385JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
386 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
387
388JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
389
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390JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
391 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
392
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393JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
394
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395JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
396 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 397 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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398 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
399 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
400 they will retry in-clear.
401 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
402 at installation time.
403
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404HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
405 with the $config_file variable.
406
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407JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
408 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
409 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
410 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 411 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 412
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413GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
414 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
415 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
416 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
417 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
418
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419JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
420
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421JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
422 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
423 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
424 list order is no longer honoured.
425
4c04137d 426JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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427 for DKIM processing.
428
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429JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
430 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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432JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
433 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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434 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
435 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 436
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437JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
438 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
439
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440JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
441 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
442
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443JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
444 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
445
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446JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
447
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448JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
449 cached by the daemon.
450
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451JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
452 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
453
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454JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
455 keys are given for lookup.
456
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457JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
458 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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459 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
460 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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462JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
463 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
464 server-side so match that on older versions.
465
07c73177 466JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 467 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 468 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 469
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470JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
471 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
472
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473JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
474 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
475 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 476 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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477 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
478 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
479 initial truncated version.
480
ab9152ff 481JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 482
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483JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
484
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485JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
486 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
487
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488JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
489
bc3c7bb7 490HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 491
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492JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
493 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
494 induced overflows.
495
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496JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
497 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
498 stage.
499
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500JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
501 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
502
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503JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
504 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
505 former class.
506
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507JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
508 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
509 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
510
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511JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
512 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
513 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
514 extraction. Accept either.
515
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520JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
521 expanded.
522
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523JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
524
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525JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
526 it.
527
01a4a5c5 528JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 529 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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530 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
531 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
532
cb1d7830 533JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 534 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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535 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
536
610ff438 537JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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538 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
539 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
540 TLS connections
610ff438 541
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542JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
543 sites use this now.
544
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545JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
546 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
547 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
548 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
549 have a dsn_lasthop option.
550
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551JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
552 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 553 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 554
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555JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
556
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557JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
558 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
559
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560JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
561 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
562
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563JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
564 /defer_ok option.
565
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566JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
567 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
568
fd4d8871 569JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 570 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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571 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
572
573JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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574 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
575 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 576
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577JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
578 timeout value per server.
579
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580JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
581 now have the list separator specified.
582
8a512ed5 583JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 584 option values.
8a512ed5 585
82c0c8ea 586JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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587 under OpenSSL.
588
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589JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
590
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591JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
592 rather than the verbs used.
593
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594JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
595 from 255 to 1024 chars.
596
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597JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
598
cfab9d68 599HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 600 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 601
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602JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
603 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
604
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605HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
606 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
607
4c04137d 608JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 609
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610JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
611
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612JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
613 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 614 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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615 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
616
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617JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
618
1f155f8e
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619JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
620 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
621
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622JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
623 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
624
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625JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
626
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627JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
628
7137ca4b
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629JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
630
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631JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
632 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
633
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634JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
635 added for tls authenticator.
636
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637HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
638
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643TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
644 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
645 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
646 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
647 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
648 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
649 the script parsing/test process like normal.
650
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651TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
652 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
653 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
654 function when detected.
655
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656JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
657 cause callback expansion.
658
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659TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
660 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
661 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
662 instead of bool when processing it.
663
0f06b4f2 664JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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665 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
666
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667JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
668
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669JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
670
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671TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
672
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673TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
674 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 675
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676JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
677 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
678 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
679 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 680 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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681 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
682
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683JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
684 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
685 exceeded it.
686
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687JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
688 version 3.3.6 or later.
689
4c04137d 690JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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691 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
692 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 693 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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694 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
695 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
696 option is defined.
774ef2d7 697
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698TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
699 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
700
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701JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
702 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
703 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
704 matches.
705
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706JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
707 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
708 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
709
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710JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
711 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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712
713JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
714 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
715 syntax errors.
716
3394b36a 717JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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718
719JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
720 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
721
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722TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
723 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
724 tarball.
725
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726JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
727
4c04137d 728JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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729 Bug 1561.
730
731JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
732 output list separator was used.
733
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737TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
738 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
739 return.
1f0ebb98 740
a612424f 741JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 742 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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743
744JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
745
746TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 747 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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752
753TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
754
755 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
756 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
757 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
758 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
759 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
760 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
761
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762TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
763 utilities have not been installed.
764
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765JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
766 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
767
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768TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
769 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
770
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771TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
772 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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773 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
774 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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776JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
777
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778TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
779 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
780
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781PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
782 not dns_use_dnssec.
783
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784JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
785
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786TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
787 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
788 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
789
8ddef691 790TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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791 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
792 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
793 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
794 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 795 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 796
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797JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
798
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799JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
800 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
801
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802JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
803 failed delivery.
804
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805JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
806
511a6c14 807JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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808
809JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
810 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 811
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812JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
813 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
814
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815TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
816
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817JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
818
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819JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
820 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
821
822 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
823 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
824 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
825
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826TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
827 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
828 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
829 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 830
35aba663
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831JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
832
8c51eead 833JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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834 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
835 lookup).
8c51eead 836
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837TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
838 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
839 Schlichting.
35aba663 840
fd3b6a4a 841JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 842 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 843
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844TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
845 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
846
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847JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
848
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849TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
850 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
851 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
852
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853JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
854 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
855
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856JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
857 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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858 hosts_request_ocsp.
859
ed3bba5f 860JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 861 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 862 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 863
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864JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
865
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866TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
867 Christian Aistleitner.
868
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869JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
870
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871TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
872 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
873
00bff6f6
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874JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
875 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
876
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877JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
878 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
879
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880TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
881 support and error reporting did not work properly.
882
3ae173e7
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883TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
884 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
885
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886TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
887 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
888 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
889
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890JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
891
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892PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
893 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
894 Jasper Wallace.
895
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896JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
897
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898TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
899 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
900 CVE-2014-2972
901
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906PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
907
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908PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
909 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
910
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911PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
912 by GnuTLS.
913
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914PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
915 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
916 routines.
917
13363eba 918PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 919
66645890 920PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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921 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
922 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
923 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
924 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 925
a3fb9793 926PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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927 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
928 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
929 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 930 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 931 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 932
d27f98fe 933TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 934
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935TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
936
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937TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
938 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
939
ae0e32ee 940TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 941 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 942 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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944TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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946TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
947
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948TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
949 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
950
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951JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
952
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953JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
954
ec4b68e5
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955PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
956
d7148a07
NM
957NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
958 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 959
585121e2 960JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 961
2519e60d
TL
962PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
963 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
964 function.
a5f239e4 965
13d08c90
PP
966PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
967 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
968
bef3ea7f
JH
969JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
970 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
971 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 972
846726c5
JH
973JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
974
3a796370
JH
975JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
976
ea722490 977JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
978 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
979
b1b05573
JH
980JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
981 Bugzilla 884.
982
362145b5
JH
983JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
984 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
985
3c0a92dc
JH
986JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
987 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
988
6d7c6175
PP
989PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
990 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 991 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 992
6f123593
JH
993JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
994 authenticators.
995
c8e2fc1e
JH
996JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
997 for control.
998
005ac57f
PP
999PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1000
3f1df0e3
PP
1001PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1002 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1003 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1004 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1005
67bd1ab3
TF
1006TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1007
1008 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1009 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1010 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1011 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1012 the retry rules.
1013
1014 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1015 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1016 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1017
1018 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1019 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1020 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1021 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1022
1ddeb334
TF
1023 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1024 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1025 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1026 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1027 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1028 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1029 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1030
1031 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1032 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1033
326cdc37
TF
1034TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1035
1036 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1037
1038 Resent-From: f
1039
1040 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1041 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1042 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1043 username as equal to the username.
1044
1045 This change corrects that bug.
1046
f62514b3
GF
1047GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1048 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1049 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1050
eb505532
TF
1051TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1052
14c7b357
PP
1053PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1054 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1055 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1056 NULL dereference and crash.
1057
94eaf700
PP
1058JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1059
6f5a440a
PP
1060PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1061 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1062 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1063
514ee161
SC
1064SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1065
fd98a5c6
JH
1066JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1067 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1068 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1069 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1070 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1071 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1072 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1073 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1074 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1075 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1076 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1077
035c7f1e
PP
1078PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1079 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1080
ff284120
PP
1081PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1082 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1083 Bugzilla 880.
1084
26e72755
PP
1085PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1086 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1087 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1088 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1089 an empty string is now equivalent.
1090
0fbd9bff
PP
1091PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1092 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1093 not performing validation itself.
1094
700d22f3
PP
1095PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1096 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1097
fcc8e047
JH
1098JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1099 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1100
4c04137d 1101TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1102
8c020188
PP
1103PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1104 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1105 other false fix of the same issue.
1106 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1107 Bugzilla 1363.
1108
d13cdd30
PP
1109PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1110 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1111
e2fbf4a2
PP
1112PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1113 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1114 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1115
f4c1088b
PP
1116PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1117 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1118 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1119
c5c2182f
PP
1120TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1121
73431ca9
JH
1122JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1123
2d07a215
TL
1124TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1125 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1126
a30a8861
TL
1127TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1128 Alexander Miroch.
1129
33382dd9
TL
1130TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1131 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1132 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1133 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1134 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1135
046172e6
TL
1136TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1137 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1138
581d7bee 1139TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1140 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1141 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1142
1143TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1144 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1145 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1146 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1147
237b2cf2
TL
1148TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1149
9fc5a352
TL
1150TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1151 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1152 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1153
b10e4ec2
TL
1154TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1155
e2cebd74
TL
1156TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1157 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1158 interaction.
1159
1160TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1161 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1162
2519e60d
TL
1163TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1164 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1165
e78e6ecf 1166
4263f395
PP
1167Exim version 4.80.1
1168-------------------
1169
1170PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1171 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1172 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1173
ea722490 1174
b1770b6e 1175Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1176-----------------
1177
1178PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1179 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1180 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1181
23c7e742
NM
1182NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1183
b322aac8
NM
1184NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1185 improved.
1186
4a891427
NM
1187NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1188
c1e794ba 1189PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1190
97753960
PP
1191PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1192
1193PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1194 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1195
df6303fa
PP
1196PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1197 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1198
7e6a8985
PP
1199PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1200 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1201
f1e05cc7 1202PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1203 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1204 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1205
4c287009
PP
1206PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1207
b98bb9ac
PP
1208PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1209 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1210
4a6a987a
PP
1211PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1212
c45dd180 1213PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1214
7db8d074
PP
1215PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1216 non-compliant senders.
1217 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1218
eae0036b 1219NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1220 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1221 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1222
dec5017e
PP
1223PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1224 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1225 in spool file corruption.
1226
c80c5570
PP
1227PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1228 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1229 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1230 "Got SSL error 2".
1231
076b11e2
PP
1232TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1233 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1234 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1235
5407bfff
JH
1236JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1237 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1238
9e45c72b
PP
1239JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1240
e74376d8
PP
1241PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1242 diagnostics.
1243 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1244
4c04137d 1245PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1246 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1247 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1248
7be682ca
PP
1249PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1250 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1251 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1252 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1253
ef840681
PP
1254PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1255 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1256
5bfb4cdf
PP
1257PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1258 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1259 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1260 resolver implementation change.
1261
c6e95d22
PP
1262PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1263 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1264
9cbad13b
PP
1265PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1266
9ee44efb
PP
1267PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1268
6a6084f8
PP
1269PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1270 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1271
12dd53c7
PP
1272PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1273 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1274
9e45c72b 1275JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1276 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1277
17c76198
PP
1278PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1279 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1280 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1281 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1282 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1283
53947857 1284PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1285
eae0036b 1286PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1287 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1288 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1289
9e45c72b 1290JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1291
7390e768
PP
1292PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1293 read-only, out of scope).
1294 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1295
08488c86
PP
1296PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1297 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1298 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1299 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1300
6475bd82
PP
1301PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1302
81f91683
PP
1303PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1304 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1305 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1306 real issues in debug logging.
1307
5779e6aa
PP
1308PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1309 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1310
3375e053
PP
1311PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1312 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1313 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1314
1315PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1316 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1317 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1318 problems.
3375e053 1319
9d26b8c0
PP
1320PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1321 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1322
57eb9e91 1323PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1324 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1325 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1326 needs to override this, it can.
1327
16880d1a
PP
1328PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1329 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1330 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1331
a799883d
PP
1332PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1333 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1334 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1335 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1336
3ecab157 1337PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1338
0599f9cf 1339
867fcbf5
PP
1340Exim version 4.77
1341-----------------
1342
1343PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1344 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1345
f1a29782
TF
1346TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1347
ab42bd23
TK
1348TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1349 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1350
0ca0cf52
TF
1351TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1352 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1353
921b12ca
TF
1354TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1355 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1356 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1357
1358 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1359 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1360 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1361 not safe for signals.
1362
1363 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1364 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1365 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1366 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1367 exiwhat.
1368
c99ce5c9
TF
1369TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1370
1371 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1372 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1373 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1374 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1375 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1376
1377 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1378 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1379 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1380 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1381 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1382 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1383
1384 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1385 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1386 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1387 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1388
1389 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1390 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1391 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1392 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1393
1394 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1395 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1396 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1397 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1398 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1399 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1400 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1401 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1402 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1403
1404 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1405 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1406 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1407 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1408
1409 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1410 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1411 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1412 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1413 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1414 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1415 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1416 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1417 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1418 details in the main documentation.
1419
3634fc25
TF
1420TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1421
792e8a19
TF
1422TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1423
5901f0ab
TF
1424TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1425 repository when doing development or release builds.
1426
7f2a2a43
PP
1427PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1428 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1429
061b7ebd
PP
1430PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1431 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1432 Bugzilla 97.
1433
e12f8c32
PP
1434PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1435
9e949f00 1436PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1437 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1438
1439PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1440 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1441
555ae6af 1442PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1443 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1444
1445PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1446 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1447
6f7fe114
PP
1448PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1449 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1450
c566dd90
PP
1451PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1452 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1453 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1454 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1455
d6cc7c78 1456PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1457 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1458 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1459
0d0e4455
PP
1460PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1461
3399bb60 1462PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1463
1464PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1465 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1466
0ca0cf52 1467
10906672
PP
1468Exim version 4.76
1469-----------------
1470
1471PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1472
754a0503
PP
1473PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1474 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1475
c0c7b2da
PP
1476PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1477
e97d1f08
PP
1478PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1479
084c1d8c
PP
1480PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1481 Bugzilla 1098.
1482
4e7ee012
PP
1483PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1484 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1485
c8d52a00
PP
1486TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1487 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1488
54e7ce4a
PP
1489PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1490 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1491
5ee6f336
PP
1492PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1493 Bugzilla 1104.
1494
c8d52a00 1495TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1496 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1497
1498TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1499 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1500 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1501 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1502
1503PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1504 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1505
10906672 1506
aa097c4c
NM
1507Exim version 4.75
1508-----------------
1509
4c04137d 1510NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1511 Bugzilla 1073
1512
7f3d9eff
TF
1513TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1514 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1515 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1516
159f52d2
TF
1517TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1518 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1519
0cc9542a
PP
1520PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1521 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1522 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1523
f7274286
PP
1524PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1525 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1526
7b797365
PP
1527PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1528 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1529
caacae52
NM
1530NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1531 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1532
09dcaba9
NM
1533NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1534 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1535
bc19a55b
PP
1536PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1537 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1538
bd4c9759
NM
1539NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1540 Fixes bug 943.
1541
b72aab72
PP
1542PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1543 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1544
2fe76745
PP
1545PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1546 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1547
76aa570c
PP
1548PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1549 SQL string expansion failure details.
1550 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1551
f1e5fef5
PP
1552PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1553 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1554
4d805ee9
PP
1555PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1556 extern declarations in function scope.
1557 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1558
cd59ab18
PP
1559PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1560 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1561 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1562 a kernel bug).
1563
332f5cf3
PP
1564PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1565 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1566
29cfeb94
PP
1567PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1568 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1569
660242ad
PP
1570PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1571 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1572
bc4bc4c5
PP
1573PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1574 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1575
2e64baa9
NM
1576NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1577 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1578 Dennis Davis.
1579
4c04137d 1580PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1581
6bac1a9a
PP
1582PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1583
552193f0
NM
1584NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1585 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1586
1b587e48
TF
1587TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1588 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1589
aa097c4c 1590
8c07b69f
TF
1591Exim version 4.74
1592-----------------
1593
1594TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1595 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1596
c0ea85ab
TF
1597TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1598 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1599
0761d44e
TF
1600TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1601
0a349494
PP
1602DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1603 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1604 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1605
1606PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1607 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1608 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1609
fea24b2e
PP
1610PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1611 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1612 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1613 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1614
6545de78
PP
1615PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1616 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1617 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1618 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1619
1670ef10
PP
1620PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1621 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1622 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1623 arbitrary files.
1624
c0886197
PP
1625PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1626 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1627
b7487bce
PP
1628PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1629 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1630 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1631 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1632 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1633
8c07b69f 1634
97fd1e48 1635Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1636-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1637
1638PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1639 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1640 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1641
6901c596
PP
1642PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1643 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1644
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1645JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1646
77bb000f
PP
1647PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1648
a29e5231
PP
1649PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1650
ec5a0394 1651PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1652
55c75993
PP
1653PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1654
453a6645 1655PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1656 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1657 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1658 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1659
8544e77a
PP
1660PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1661 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1662 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1663 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1664 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1665
83e029d5
PP
1666PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1667
ed7f7860
PP
1668PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1669
7d9f747b
PP
1670PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1671
4b2241d2
PP
1672PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1673
10385c15
PP
1674PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1675
dbc4b90d
PP
1676PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1677
532be449
PP
1678PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1679
6a8de854 1680PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1681 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1682 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1683
5dc43717
JJ
1684JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1685
1686JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1687 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1688
3346ab01
PP
1689PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1690 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1691
491fab4c
PP
1692PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1693 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1694 Notification from John Horne.
1695
13eb9497
PP
1696PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1697 compatible.
1698
1699PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1700 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1701 it normally works.
1702
7f36d675
DW
1703DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1704 access.
1705
c1d94452
DW
1706DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1707 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1708 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1709
e2f5dc15
DW
1710DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1711 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1712 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1713 configuration file.
1714
cd25e41d
DW
1715DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1716 option (effectively making it always true).
1717
261dc43e
DW
1718DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1719 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1720
fa32850b
DW
1721DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1722 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1723
79d4bc3d
PP
1724PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1725 run-time user, instead of root.
1726
43236f35 1727PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1728 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1729
fb08281f
DW
1730DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1731 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1732 arguments.
3346ab01 1733
74935b98
DW
1734DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1735 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1736 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1737
90b6341f
DW
1738DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1739
57730b52
ML
1740NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1741
66581d1e 1742
465e92cf
JJ
1743Exim version 4.72
1744-----------------
1745
453a6645
PP
1746JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1747 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1748 typos
465e92cf 1749
453a6645
PP
1750JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1751 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1752 (Finput)
edae0343 1753
9bd3e22c
NM
1754NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1755 Patch from Alain Williams
1756
bb576ff7
NM
1757NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1758
5a1a5845
NM
1759NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1760 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1761
981a9fad
NM
1762NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1763 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1764
7fc497ee
NM
1765NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1766
1a41defa
JJ
1767JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1768
a466095c 1769NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1770 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1771
94a6bd0b
NM
1772TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1773
1774TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1775
1776MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1777 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1778 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1779
c1b141a8
NM
1780NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1781 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1782
b26eacf1 1783NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1784 Patch by Simon Arlott
1785
179c5980 1786PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1787 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1788
9bd3e22c 1789
7c6d71af
NM
1790Exim version 4.71
1791-----------------
1792
7d9f747b 1793TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1794
f013fb92
NM
1795NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1796
0eb8eedd
NM
1797NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1798
663ee6d9
NM
1799NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1800
177ebd9b
NM
1801NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1802
7c6d71af 1803
210f147e
NM
1804Exim version 4.70
1805-----------------
1806
cdd3bb85 1807TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1808 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1809
1810TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1811 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1812 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1813
1814TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1815 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1816 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1817
1818TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1819 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1820
210f147e
NM
1821NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1822 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1823 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1824 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1825
deafd5b3
NM
1826NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1827 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1828 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1829
089793a4
TF
1830TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1831
5f16ca82
TF
1832TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1833
dae9d94e 1834NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1835 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1836
7d9f747b 1837NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1838
06864c44
TF
1839TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1840 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1841 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1842 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1843
65a7d8c3 1844NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1845 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1846
23510047 1847TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1848
7d9f747b 1849NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1850
7d8eec3a 1851NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1852 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1853
89dec7b6
TF
1854TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1855 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1856
a99de90c
TF
1857TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1858 that they are available at delivery time.
1859
e2803e40
TF
1860TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1861
7199e1ee
TF
1862TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1863 incoming_port log selectors.
1864
e276e04b
TF
1865TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1866 setting expands to an empty string.
1867
ce552449 1868NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1869 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1870
e765a0f1 1871NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1872 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1873
4f054c63 1874NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1875 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1876
7d9f747b
PP
1877NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1878 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1879
7d9f747b
PP
1880NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1881 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1882
b52bc06e 1883NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1884 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1885
447de4b0
NM
1886NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1887
4c69d561 1888NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1889 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1890
d5c39246 1891NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1892 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1893
0b23848a
TK
1894TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1895
8f3414a1 1896NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1897 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1898
fb6f955d
NM
1899NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1900
1901NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1902
7d9f747b
PP
1903NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1904 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1905
7d9f747b
PP
1906NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1907 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1908
7d9f747b
PP
1909NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1910 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1911
7d9f747b
PP
1912NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1913 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1914
7d9f747b
PP
1915NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1916 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1917
7d9f747b
PP
1918NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1919 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1920
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PP
1921NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1922 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1923
7d9f747b 1924NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1925 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1926
7d9f747b 1927NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1928
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1929NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1930 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1931
7d9f747b 1932NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1933
7d9f747b 1934NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1935
7d9f747b 1936NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1937
7d9f747b 1938NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1939
17792b53 1940NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1941 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1942
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1943NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1944 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1945
91576cec 1946NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1947 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1948
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1949NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1950 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1951
7d9f747b 1952NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1953
7d9f747b 1954NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1955
7d9f747b 1956NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1957
7d9f747b 1958NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1959
deafd5b3 1960
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NM
1961Exim version 4.69
1962-----------------
1963
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1964TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1965 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1966 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1967
1968 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1969 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1970 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1971 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1972 build errors in sieve.c.
1973
81ea09ca
NM
1974NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1975 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1976 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1977
f13cddcb
SC
1978SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1979
7d9f747b 1980NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1981
7d9f747b 1982NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1983
7d9f747b 1984NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1985
1986
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1987Exim version 4.68
1988-----------------
1989
1990PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1991
6a3bceb1
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1992PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1993 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1994 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1995 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1996 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1997 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1998 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1999 for iplsearch lookups.
2000
2001 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2002 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2003 previously such lookups could never work.
2004
4c04137d 2005 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2006 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2007 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2008
2e30fa9d
TK
2009TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2010 version.
2011
0806a9c5
MH
2012MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2013 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2014 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2015 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2016 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2017 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2018
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TK
2019TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2020 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2021
0f2cbd1b
MH
2022MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2023 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2024 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2025 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2026 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2027 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2028
2b85bce7
PH
2029PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2030 local_scan API.
2031
93655c46
PH
2032PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2033
6c512171
PH
2034PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2035 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2036 encrypted.
2037
2038PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2039 by clients under certain conditions.
2040
aa6dc513
PH
2041PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2042 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2043
a96603a0
PH
2044PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2045
8f240103
PH
2046PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2047 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2048
2049PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2050
d677b2f2
PH
2051PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2052
d52120f2
PH
2053PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2054
64f2600a
PH
2055PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2056 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2057
8669f003
PH
2058PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2059
a4dc33a8
PH
2060PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2061 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2062
d6a60c0f
PH
2063PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2064
8f128379
PH
2065PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2066
8932dffe
PH
2067PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2068 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2069 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2070 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2071
ddea74fa 2072PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2073 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2074 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2075
ddea74fa 2076PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2077 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2078
ddea74fa
PH
2079PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2080
ce9f225c
PH
2081PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2082
19897d52
PH
2083PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2084
bc64a74d
PH
2085PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2086 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2087 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2088
eb4c0de6 2089
b4ed4da0
PH
2090Exim version 4.67
2091-----------------
2092
22ad45c9
MH
2093MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2094 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2095 Jan Srzednicki.
2096
b4ed4da0
PH
2097PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2098 issue a MAIL command.
2099
431b7361
PH
2100PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2101
2102 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2103
2104 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2105 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2106 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2107 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2108 item. This has been fixed.
2109
2110PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2111 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2112
83da1223
PH
2113PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2114 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2115
54fc8428
PH
2116PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2117 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2118 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2119
34c5e8dd
SC
2120SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2121
bbe15da8
PH
2122PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2123 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2124 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2125 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2126 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2127
0e8a9471
MH
2128MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2129 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2130 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2131
f0872424
PH
2132PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2133 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2134 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2135 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2136
b01dd148
PH
2137PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2138
6bf342e1
PH
2139PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2140
273f34d0
PH
2141PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2142 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2143 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2144 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2145 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2146
cf8b11a5
PH
2147PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2148
41c7c167
PH
2149PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2150 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2151 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2152 values).
2153
9c57cbc0
PH
2154PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2155
f3f065bb
PH
2156PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2157
047bdd8c
PH
2158PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2159
0ce9abe6
PH
2160PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2161
0e22dfd1
PH
2162PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2163
4c590bd1
PH
2164PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2165 no_callout_flush is set.
2166
09945f1e
PH
2167PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2168 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2169 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2170 fixed.
2171
c51b8e75
PH
2172PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2173
e28326d8 2174PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2175 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2176 other ACL rejections are.
2177
75b1493f
PH
2178PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2179 with slight modification.
2180
7c5214ec
PH
2181PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2182 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2183
4311097e
PH
2184PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2185 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2186 connection.
2187
29f89cad
PH
2188PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2189 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2190
5e687460
SC
2191SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2192
c3611384
PH
2193PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2194 expansion side effects.
2195
5a11a7b4
PH
2196PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2197 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2198 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2199 be the same.
2200
0e20aff9
MH
2201MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2202 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2203 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2204
ca86f471
PH
2205PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2206 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2207 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2208 were accidentally chopped off.
2209
a14e5636
PH
2210PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2211 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2212 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2213 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2214 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2215 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2216 pipelining has not been advertised.
2217
ec95d1a6
PH
2218PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2219
42855d71
PH
2220PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2221 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2222 This has been fixed.
2223
57c2c631
PH
2224PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2225 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2226 reported on Solaris.
2227
58c01c94
PH
2228PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2229 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2230 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2231 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2232 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2233 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2234 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2235
dee5a20a
PH
2236PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2237 cpus.
2238
d2ee6114
PH
2239PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2240
b2d5182b
PH
2241PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2242
79749a79
PH
2243PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2244 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2245 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2246 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2247 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2248 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2249
c456d9bb
PH
2250PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2251 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2252 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2253 host_all_ignored option.
2254
cd9868ec
PH
2255PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2256 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2257 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2258 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2259 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2260 is what is supposed to happen).
2261
ebeaf996
PH
2262PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2263 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2264 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2265 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2266 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2267 uses the Exim user.
2268
2679d413
PH
2269PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2270 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2271 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2272 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2273 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2274 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2275 users.
2276
84024b72
PH
2277PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2278
8005d38e
SC
2279SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2280 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2281 (Jez Hancock).
2282 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2283 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2284
3298c6c6
SC
2285SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2286
a43a27c5
PH
2287PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2288
58eb016e 2289PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
2290 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2291 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2292 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2293 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2294 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2295 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2296 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2297 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2298 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2299 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2300
b43a74ea
PH
2301PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2302 advertised in response to EHLO.
2303
b4ed4da0 2304
5dd1517f
PH
2305Exim version 4.66
2306-----------------
2307
2308PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2309 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2310
2311 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2312 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2313
2314 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2315 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2316 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2317
2318 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2319 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2320 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2321 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2322 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2323
2324
93cfa765
TK
2325Exim version 4.65
2326-----------------
2327
2328TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2329 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2330 versions. (#438)
2331
d6066548
MH
2332MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2333 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2334 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2335
4362ff0d
PH
2336PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2337 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2338 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2339 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2340 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2341 rather than extend the field.
2342
93cfa765 2343
944e9e9c
TF
2344Exim version 4.64
2345-----------------
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21d74bd9
TK
2347TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2348 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2349 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2350 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2351 these files.
2352
2353TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2354 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2355 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2356
2357TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2358 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2359 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2360
2361TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2362 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2363 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2364 in the field name.
2365
2b1c6e3a
PH
2366PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2367 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2368 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2369 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2370 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2371 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2372 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2373 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2374 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2375 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2376 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2377
1f872c80
PH
2378PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2379 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2380
2381PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2382 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2383 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2384 ignores EPIPE as well.
2385
d203e649
PH
2386PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2387 (quoted-printable decoding).
2388
cc2ed8f7 2389PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2390 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2391
ddfcd446
PH
2392PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2393
d45b1de8
PH
2394PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2395
2396PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2397
38a0a95f 2398PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2399 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2400
a2405d83
JJ
2401JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2402 in 4.64-PH/09.
2403
2404JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2405 miscellaneous code fixes
2406
6ea85e9a
PH
2407PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2408 rejections.
2409
26da7e20
PH
2410PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2411 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2412 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2413 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2414 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2415 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2416 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2417 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2418
14aa5a05 2419PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2420 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2421 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2422 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2423 function.
2424 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2425 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2426 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2427 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2428 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2429 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2430 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2431 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2432 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2433
ff75a1f7
PH
2434PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2435 decoding.
2436
e6f6568e
PH
2437PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2438 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2439 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2440 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2441 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2442 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2443 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2444 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2445
d6f6e0dc
PH
2446PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2447 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2448 list.
2449
322050c2
PH
2450PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2451 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2452 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2453 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2454 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2455 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2456 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2457 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2458 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2459 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2460 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2461 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2462 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2463
08955dd3
PH
2464PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2465 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2466 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2467 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2468 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2469 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2470 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2471
1eccaa59
PH
2472PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2473 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2474 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2475 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2476 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2477 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2478 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2479 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2480 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2481 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2482
602e59e5
PH
2483PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2484 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2485 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2486 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2487 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2488
411ef850
PH
2489PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2490 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2491 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2492 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2493 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2494 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2495 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2496
7befa435
PH
2497PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2498 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2499 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2500 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2501 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2502 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2503 been verified.
2504
48da4259 2505PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2506 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2507 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2508 and authorization.)
2509
48da4259
PH
2510PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2511 if any retry times were supplied.
2512
d1d5595c
PH
2513PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2514 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2515 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2516
0ef732d9
PH
2517PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2518
328895cc
PH
2519PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2520
fd700877
PH
2521PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2522 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2523 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2524 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2525 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2526 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2527
8dce1a6f
PH
2528PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2529 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2530
17af4a17
PH
2531PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2532 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2533 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2534
2535PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2536 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2537 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2538 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2539 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2540 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2541 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2542 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2543 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2544
2545 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2546 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2547 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2548 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2549 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2550 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2551 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2552 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2553 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2554
2555 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2556 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2557 hammering the server.
2558
c1114884
PH
2559PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2560 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2561
7a0743eb
PH
2562PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2563
0d85fa3f
PH
2564PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2565 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2566 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2567
1bf43b78
PH
2568PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2569 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2570 one case where this was not true.
2571
520de300
PH
2572PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2573 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2574 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2575 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2576 fails.
2577
48c7f9e2
PH
2578PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2579 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2580 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2581 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2582 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2583 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2584 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2585 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2586 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2587 smtp transport.
2588
99ea1c86
PH
2589PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2590 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2591 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2592 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2593
a2042e78
PH
2594PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2595 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2596
4fbcfc2e
PH
2597PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2598 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2599 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2600
aa41d2de
PH
2601PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2602
af561417
PH
2603PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2604
3cc66b45
PH
2605PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2606
194cc0e4
PH
2607PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2608 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2609 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2610 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2611
a401ddaa
PH
2612PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2613 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2614
4e88a19f
PH
2615PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2616 be meaningful with "accept".
2617
d7d7b289
SC
2618SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2619 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2620
2621SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2622 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2623 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2624
2625SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2626 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2627 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2628 there is data to show.
2629 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2630
2631SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2632 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2633 as well as the number of messages.
2634
2635SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2636 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2637 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2638
2639SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2640 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2641 have a flag are now skipped.
2642
2643SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2644 Added the -emptyok flag.
2645
2646SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2647 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2648
0ea2a468
JJ
2649JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2650 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2651 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2652
2653JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2654 match 4.64-PH/13
2655
2656JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2657 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2658
2659JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2660
2661JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2662 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2663
8a10f5a4
PH
2664PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2665
30e18802
PH
2666PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2667 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2668 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2669 contravention of the specifications.
2670
55728a4f
PH
2671PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2672 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2673 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2674
d7837193
PH
2675PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2676 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2677 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2678
87054a31
PH
2679PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2680
ea2c01d2
MH
2681MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2682 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2683 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2684 some point in the past.
2685
e4fa6968
PH
2686PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2687 transport during callout processing was broken.
2688
56f5d9bd
PH
2689PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2690 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2691
922e1c28
PH
2692PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2693 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2694
21eb6e72
PH
2695PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2696 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2697
a0540757
PH
2698PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2699
944e9e9c 2700
478be7b0
SC
2701Exim version 4.63
2702-----------------
2703
2704SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2705 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2706
2707SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2708 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2709 there is data to show.
2710 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2711
2712SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2713 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2714
2b965a65
TF
2715TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2716 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2717
45b91596
PH
2718TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2719 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2720
c59f5781
TF
2721TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2722 submissions from trusted users.
2723
90fc3069
TF
2724TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2725 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2726
6083aca0
TF
2727TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2728 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2729 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2730 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2731 there is now a framework to start from.
2732
765b530f
PH
2733PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2734 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2735 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2736
4e167a8c
PH
2737PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2738
4608d683
PH
2739PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2740
b8dc3e4a
PH
2741PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2742
5418e93b
PH
2743PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2744 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2745 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2746
b4a9bda2
PH
2747PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2748 libradius.
2749
45b91596
PH
2750PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2751 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2752 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2753
5547e2c5
PH
2754PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2755 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2756 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2757 its arguments.
2758
dbcef0ea
PH
2759PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2760 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2761 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2762 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2763 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2764
25257489
PH
2765PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2766 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2767
c816d124
PH
2768PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2769
a9ccd69a
PH
2770PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2771 operations in malware.c.
2772
75fa1910
PH
2773PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2774 signatures.
2775
a7d7aa58
PH
2776PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2777 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2778 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2779 all.
2780
42119b09
PH
2781PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2782 statements to "add_header".
2783
41609df5
PH
2784PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2785 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2786
a5bd321b
PH
2787PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2788 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2789 latter.
2790
e85a7ad5 2791PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2792 so that it is now:
2793
e85a7ad5
PH
2794 ${if or { \
2795 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2796 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2797 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2798 }{no}{yes}}
2799
e85a7ad5
PH
2800 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2801 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2802
d8fe1c03
PH
2803PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2804 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2805
16282d2b
PH
2806PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2807 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2808 any possible encoding problems.
2809
35d40a98
PH
2810PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2811 but not after initializing Perl.
2812
034d99ab
PH
2813PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2814 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2815 apparently, which is not desirable.
2816
6ec97b1b
PH
2817PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2818 queries.
2819
e22ca4ac
JJ
2820JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2821 --not options
2822
2823JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2824
33d73e3b
PH
2825PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2826 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2827 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2828 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2829
9ecb03f3
PH
2830PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2831 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2832 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2833
084efe8d
PH
2834PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2835 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2836 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2837 0.12.
2838
366fc9f0
PH
2839PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2840 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2841 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2842 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2843 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2844
c59f5781 2845
c887c79e
TF
2846Exim version 4.62
2847-----------------
2848
2849TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2850 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2851
1cce3af8
PH
2852PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2853 patch).
2854
afb3eaaf
PH
2855PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2856 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2857 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2858 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2859 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2860 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2861 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2862 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2863 451 error is used.
2864
e173618b
PH
2865PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2866
dd16e114
PH
2867PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2868 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2869 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2870
f7fd3850
PH
2871PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2872 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2873 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2874 odd errors.
2875
d87df92c
PH
2876PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2877 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2878
7e9f683d
PH
2879PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2880 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2881 option (which defaults to 0600).
2882
bfad5236
PH
2883PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2884
01c490df
PH
2885PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2886 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2887 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2888 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2889 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2890 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2891 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2892
d6629cdc
PH
2893PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2894
1cce3af8 2895
214e2000
PH
2896Exim version 4.61
2897-----------------
2898
2899PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2900 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2901 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2902 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2903 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2904 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2905 addresses as local.
2906
f9daeae0
PH
2907PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2908 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2909
7e66e54d
PH
2910PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2911
c8ea1597
PH
2912PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2913 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2914 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2915 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2916 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2917 grumble.
2918
911f6fde
PH
2919PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2920 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2921
47ca6d6c
PH
2922PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2923 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2924 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2925 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2926 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2927
ed0e9820
PH
2928PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2929 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2930 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2931 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2932
eff37e47
PH
2933PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2934 be the same on different OS.
2935
1921d2ea
PH
2936PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2937 testing.
2938
b3f69ca8
JJ
2939JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2940 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2941
2942JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2943 in 4.61-PH/06
2944
424a1c63
PH
2945PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2946 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2947 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2948 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2949 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2950 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2951 bounce message.
2952
7a100415
PH
2953PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2954 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2955 when Exim was called.
2956
19b9dc85
PH
2957PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2958 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2959
309bd837
PH
2960PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2961 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2962 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2963 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2964
59e82a2a
PH
2965PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2966 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2967 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2968 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2969 changes:
2970
2971 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2972 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2973 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2974
2975 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2976 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2977 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2978
9edc04ce
PH
2979PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2980 feature).
2981
1349e1e5
PH
2982PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2983 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2984 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2985 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2986 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2987 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2988 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2989 values from the SRV records were lost.
2990
ea49d0e1
PH
2991PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2992 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2993 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2994
064a94c9
PH
2995PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2996 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2997 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2998
727071f8
PH
2999PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3000 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3001 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3002 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3003 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3004 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3005 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3006 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3007 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3008 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3009
f78eb7c6
PH
3010PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3011 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3012 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3013
21c28500
PH
3014PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3015 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3016
3017PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3018 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3019 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3020 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3021 is given.
3022
1688f43b
PH
3023PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3024 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3025 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3026
3027PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3028 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3029 PH/23 above applies.
3030
9675b384
PH
3031PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3032 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3033 (for which there is an explicit test).
3034
6a3f1455
PH
3035PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3036
dac79d3e
PH
3037PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3038 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3039 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3040 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3041 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3042
5977a0b3
PH
3043PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3044 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3045 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3046 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3047
c91535f3
PH
3048PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3049 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3050 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3051
0d46a8c8
PH
3052PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3053
278c6e6c
PH
3054PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3055
2cbb4081
PH
3056PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3057 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3058 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3059
3eef829e
PH
3060PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3061 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3062 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3063 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3064 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3065
1ab95fa6
PH
3066PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3067 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3068 the message gets confusing).
3069
230205fc
PH
3070PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3071 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3072 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3073 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3074
75e0e026
PH
3075PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3076 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3077 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3078 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3079 same order.
3080
3081PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3082 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3083 the different processes.
3084
145396a6
PH
3085PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3086
3cd34f13
PH
3087PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3088
11121d3d
JJ
3089JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3090 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3091
3092JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3093 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3094
3095JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3096 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3097 messages matching specified criteria.
3098
8def5aaf
PH
3099PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3100
929ba01c
PH
3101PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3102 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3103
2632889e
PH
3104PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3105 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3106 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3107 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3108 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3109 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3110 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3111 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3112 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3113 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3114
944a9c55
PH
3115PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3116 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3117 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3118
4a23603b
PH
3119PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3120
4730f942
PH
3121PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3122 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3123 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3124 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3125 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3126 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3127 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3128 the variable.
3129
30dba1e6
PH
3130PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3131 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3132
382afc6b
PH
3133PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3134
a86229cf
PH
3135PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3136
50c99ba6
PH
3137PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3138
d35e429d
PH
3139PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3140 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3141 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3142 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3143 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3144 size of the count of files.
3145
f90d018c
PH
3146PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3147
75def545
PH
3148PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3149 used in LMTP mode:
3150
3151 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3152 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3153 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3154 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3155
3156 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3157 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3158 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3159
3160PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3161 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3162 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3163 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3164 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3165
c46782ef
PH
3166PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3167 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3168
71fafd95
PH
3169PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3170 will now be deprecated.
3171
2c5db4fd
PH
3172PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3173
9cf6b11a
JJ
3174JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3175 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3176 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3177
3178JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3179 with very large, slow to parse queues
3180
3181JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3182
3183JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3184
898d150f
PH
3185PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3186 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3187 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3188 SMTP output lines.
3189
46218253
PH
3190PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3191 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3192 Sieve code now uses this.
3193
e97957bc
PH
3194PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3195 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3196
81e509d7
PH
3197PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3198 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3199
3d240ff7
PH
3200PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3201
b37c4101
PH
3202PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3203 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3204 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3205 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3206 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3207
79378e0f
PH
3208PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3209 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3210 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3211 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3212
e49c7bb4
PH
3213PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3214
d114ec46
PH
3215PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3216
f3d7df6c
PH
3217PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3218 is preferred over IPv4.
3219
715ab376
PH
3220PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3221 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3222 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3223 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3224 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3225 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3226 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3227
6b31b150
PH
3228PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3229 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3230 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3231
3232PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3233
d515a917
PH
3234PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3235 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3236 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3237 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3238 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3239 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3240 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3241 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3242 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3243 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3244 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3245
9b8fadde
PH
3246PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3247 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3248 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3249
214e2000 3250
5de37277
PH
3251Exim version 4.60
3252-----------------
3253
cc38ddbf
PH
3254PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3255
3256 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3257 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3258
3259 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3260 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3261 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3262
72fdd6ae
PH
3263PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3264
3265 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3266 not a single digit.
3267
3268 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3269 string.
3270
3271 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3272 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3273 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3274 silly things.
3275
3276 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3277 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3278
3279 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3280 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3281
cb741023
PH
3282PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3283 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3284 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3285
f174f16e
PH
3286PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3287 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3288
c25242d7
PH
3289PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3290 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3291
3292 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3293
3294 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3295 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3296 this:
3297
3298 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3299
82c19f95
PH
3300PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3301 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3302 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3303 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3304 identical. For example:
3305
3306 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3307
3308 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3309 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3310 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3311
d7ffbc12
PH
3312PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3313 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3314 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3315 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3316
9f526266
PH
3317PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3318 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3319 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3320 message.
3321
87fcc8b9
PH
3322PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3323
3324 o fixes some comments
3325 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3326 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3327 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3328 and documents the missing references header update
3329
3330 and most important:
3331
3332 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3333 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3334 result)
3335
456682f5
PH
3336PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3337 Electronic Mail") by including:
3338
3339 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3340
3341 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3342 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3343 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3344 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3345 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3346
3347 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3348
3349 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3350
3351 The auto-replied keyword:
3352
3353 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3354 message by an automatic process,
3355
3356 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3357
3358 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3359 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3360
3361 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3362 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3363 other messages.
3364
3e46c1aa
PH
3365PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3366 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3367
49826d12
PH
3368PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3369
eba0c039
PH
3370PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3371 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3372 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3373
a0d6ba8a
PH
3374PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3375 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3376 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3377
f0917727
PH
3378PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3379 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3380 and treats the condition as false.
3381
096fee00
PH
3382PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3383
024bd3c2
PH
3384PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3385 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3386 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3387 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3388 not changing the active code.
3389
3390 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3391 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3392
3393 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3394 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3395
df199fec
PH
3396PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3397 (Bugzilla #53).
3398
d27f1df3
PH
3399PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3400 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3401 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3402 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3403 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3404 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3405 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3406 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3407 the text comparison.
3408
96776534
PH
3409PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3410 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3411 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3412 The same fix has been applied.
3413
5de37277 3414
9a799bc0
PH
3415Exim version 4.54
3416-----------------
3417
3418PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3419 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3420 It now does.
3421
99a4b039
PH
3422PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3423 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3424
3425PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3426
4b233853
PH
3427PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3428 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3429 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3430 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3431 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3432
8857ccfd
PH
3433TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3434 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3435 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3436 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3437 or /domain=).
3438
433a2980
PH
3439PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3440 testing suite.
3441
3e46c1aa 3442
9a799bc0 3443
e3a311ba
TK
3444Exim version 4.53
3445-----------------
3446
3447TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3448 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3449
13b685f9
PH
3450PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3451
395ff96d
PH
3452PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3453
5b68f6e4
PH
3454PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3455 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3456 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3457
1ab52c69
PH
3458PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3459 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3460 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3461
b07e6aa3
PH
3462PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3463 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3464 operating systems.
3465
254e032f
PH
3466PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3467 ${stat: expansion item.
3468
3af76a81
PH
3469PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3470 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3471
2548ba04
PH
3472PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3473 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3474 file for comments.
3475
b6c6011d
PH
3476PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3477
cf39cf57
PH
3478PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3479 setting.
3480
f1513293
PH
3481PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3482 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3483
727549a4
PH
3484TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3485
af46795e
PH
3486PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3487 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3488 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3489 the end of the subprocess.
3490
d7b47fd0
PH
3491PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3492 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3493 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3494 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3495 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3496
ee744174
JJ
3497JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3498
b582ab87
PH
3499TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3500
41a13e0a
PH
3501PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3502 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3503
f625cc5a
PH
3504PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3505
3506PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3507
21f7af35
PH
3508PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3509 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3510 HP-UX compiler.
3511
31480e42
PH
3512PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3513
2d280592
PH
3514PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3515 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3516 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3517
7cd1141b
PH
3518PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3519 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3520
3521PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3522 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3523
750af86e
PH
3524PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3525 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3526
3527 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3528 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3529
3530 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3531 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3532 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3533 contributed by a Radius user.
3534
3535PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3536 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3537
4304270b
TK
3538TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3539 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3540
750af86e
PH
3541PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3542 available.
3543
64ffc24f
PH
3544PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3545 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3546 received.
3547
5dd9625b
PH
3548PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3549 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3550 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3551 header lines when this was not necessary.
3552
5591031b
PH
3553PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3554
ba18e66a
PH
3555PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3556 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3557 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3558 exists".
3559
9cec981f
PH
3560PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3561 -bV or -d is used.
3562
aa2b5c79
PH
3563PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3564 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3565 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3566 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3567
48a53b7f
PH
3568PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3569
1c59d63b
PH
3570PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3571
671012da
TK
3572TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3573
1509d3a8
PH
3574PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3575
3576PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3577 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3578 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3579 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3580 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3581 settings.
3582
3583PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3584
2fe1a124
PH
3585PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3586 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3587 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3588 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3589 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3590 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3591 which is clearly wrong.
3592
8800895a
PH
3593PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3594
ccfdb010
PH
3595PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3596 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3597 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3598 subsequently added.
3599
1130bfb0
PH
3600PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3601 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3602
ebcb507f
PH
3603PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3604
c35e155c
PH
3605PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3606 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3607
95d1f782
PH
3608PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3609 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3610
fd6de02e
PH
3611PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3612 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3613
58de37c5
PH
3614PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3615 recipients, not senders.
3616
261cf466
TF
3617TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3618 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3619
3ee512ff
PH
3620PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3621
e08c430f
PH
3622PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3623
bef5a11f
PH
3624PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3625 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3626 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3627 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3628
7546de58
TF
3629TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3630
e5d5a95f
TF
3631TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3632 clock is set back in time.
3633
2e88a017
TF
3634TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3635 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3636
a5f65aa4
TF
3637TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3638 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3639
e7726cbf
PH
3640PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3641 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3642 (see PH/47 above).
3643
a7fdad5b
TF
3644TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3645 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3646 header rewrites.
3647
6af56900
PH
3648PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3649 type ("H").
3650
0925ede6
PH
3651PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3652
66afa403
TF
3653TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3654 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3655 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3656
0154e85a
TF
3657TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3658 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3659 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3660 helo verification defer as a failure.
3661
16f12c76
PH
3662PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3663 actual error message.
3664
bbe902f0 3665
e5a9dba6
PH
3666Exim version 4.52
3667-----------------
3668
3669TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3670
22c3b60b
PH
3671PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3672 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3673 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3674 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3675
06a9b4b5
PH
3676TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3677
c1ac6996
PH
3678PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3679 can still be requested.
3680
9c7a242c
PH
3681PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3682 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3683 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3684 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3685
87ba3f5f
PH
3686TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3687 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3688 circumstances, but probably never did.
3689
3690PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3691 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3692 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3693 in the header line.
3694
29aba418
TF
3695TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3696
fe0dab11
TF
3697TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3698 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3699
11d337a4
TK
3700TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3701
3702TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3703
415c8f3b
PH
3704PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3705 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3706 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3707 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3708 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3709 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3710
958541e9
PH
3711PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3712 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3713 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3714 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3715 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3716 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3717
c206415f
TK
3718TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3719 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3720
2a4be8f9
PH
3721PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3722 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3723
1cba11c5
SC
3724SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3725 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3726
4c04137d 3727SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3728
3729SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3730
3731SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3732
3733SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3734
3735SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3736
3737SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3738
1005d00e
TK
3739TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3740
3741TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3742 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3743 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3744
3745TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3746 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3747 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3748 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3749
9b4768fa
PH
3750PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3751 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3752 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3753
3754PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3755 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3756 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3757 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3758
0d7eb84a
PH
3759PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3760 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3761 to be made).
3762
3763PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3764 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3765 should work with maildirs and everything.
3766
40727bee
TK
3767TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3768 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3769
554d2369
TF
3770TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3771 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3772
1f922db1
PH
3773PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3774 function for BDB 4.3.
3775
ef213c3b
PH
3776PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3777
8ac170f3
PH
3778PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3779 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3780 involved.
3781
b1c749bb
PH
3782PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3783 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3784 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3785 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3786 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3787 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3788
4aac9b49
PH
3789PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3790 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3791 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3792 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3793 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3794 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3795 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3796 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3797
294520c8
TK
3798TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3799 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3800 details.
3801
5bd022fe
PH
3802PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3803 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3804
90e9ce59
PH
3805PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3806 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3807 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3808 test. It is now used for both.
3809
5ea81592
PH
3810PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3811 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3812 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3813 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3814 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3815 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3816
c6c2dc1d
PH
3817PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3818 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3819 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3820 string_vformat().
3821
fffffe4c
PH
3822PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3823 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3824 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3825
9a26b6b2
PH
3826PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3827 experimental DomainKeys support:
3828
3829 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3830 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3831 the control was given.
3832
3833 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3834
4aee0225
PH
3835PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3836
32d668a5
PH
3837PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3838
8187c3f3
PH
3839PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3840 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3841 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3842 db.h files).
3843
ff790e47 3844PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3845 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3846 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3847 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3848 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3849 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3850 course.
ff790e47 3851
5417f6d1
PH
3852PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3853 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3854 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3855 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3856 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3857 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3858
59cf8544
PH
3859PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3860 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3861 do -d+all out of habit.
3862
e7ad8a65
PH
3863PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3864 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3865 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3866
ade42478
PH
3867PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3868 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3869 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3870 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3871 record types that Exim uses.
3872
182ad5cf
PH
3873PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3874 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3875 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3876 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3877 non-existent file that was broken.
3878
b0d9fc80
TK
3879TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3880 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3881
3882TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3883 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3884 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3885
3886TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3887
47c7a64a
PH
3888PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3889 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3890 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3891 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3892 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3893 same time.
3894
a388bce4
SC
3895SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3896 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3897 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3898 at a slight CPU cost.
3899
3900SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3901 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3902
3903SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3904 by Marc Sherman.
3905
0793e4ed
SC
3906SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3907
c58b88df
PH
3908PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3909 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3910
e7ad8a65 3911
7982096b
PH
3912Exim version 4.51
3913-----------------
3914
1a46a8c5
PH
3915TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3916 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3917
2f079f46 3918TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3919
3920TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3921
3922PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3923 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3924
3925PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3926 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3927 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3928 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3929 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3930 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3931 file.
3932
3933PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3934 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3935 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3936 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3937 these two options.
3938
3939PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3940 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3941 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3942 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3943 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3944 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3945 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3946 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3947
3948PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3949 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3950
3951PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3952 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3953 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3954 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3955 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3956 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3957
3958PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3959 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3960 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3961 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3962
3963PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3964 Finch).
3965
3966PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3967 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3968
49c2d5ea
PH
3969PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3970 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3971 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3972 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3973 message.
49c2d5ea 3974
bf759a8b
PH
3975PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3976
83364d30
PH
3977PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3978 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3979
7999bbd7
PH
3980PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3981 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3982 to what was transported.)
3983
7dbf77c9
PH
3984TF/01 Added $received_time.
3985
74e0617f
PH
3986PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3987 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3988 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3989 spamd_address settings.
3990
2f079f46
PH
3991PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3992 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3993 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3994 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3995 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3996
8c841523
PH
3997PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3998
7766a4f0
PH
3999PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4000 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4001 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4002 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4003 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4004
8b417f2c
PH
4005PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4006 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4007
901f42cb
PH
4008PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4009 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4010 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4011 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4012 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4013 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4014 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4015 for failure.
4016
f9b9210e
PH
4017PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4018 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4019 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4020 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4021 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4022 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4023 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4024 "input=".
4025
54cdb463
PH
4026PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4027
cf00dad6
PH
4028PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4029 driver and ACL definitions.
4030
acb1b346
PH
4031PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4032 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4033
c5ddb310
PH
4034PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4035 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4036 understands it better than I do:
4037
4038 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4039 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4040
4041 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4042 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4043 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4044 => three warnings about OTP not working
4045 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4046
4047 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4048 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4049 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4050 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4051 for each call.)
4052 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4053 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4054
4055 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4056 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4057 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4058
31619da6
PH
4059PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4060 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4061 specified.
4062
bebaf0fc
PH
4063PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4064 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4065 "Linux".
4066
475fe28a
PH
4067PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4068 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4069 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4070
4071 warn !verify = sender
4072 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4073
4074 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4075 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4076
7e8bec7a
PH
4077PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4078
4079 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4080 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4081
4082 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4083 nomenclature these days.)
4084
e4a89c47
PH
4085PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4086 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4087
5ca2a9a1
PH
4088PH/30 In these circumstances:
4089 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4090 . First host does not offer TLS;
4091 . First host accepts first address;
4092 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4093 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4094 . Second host accepts second address.
4095 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4096 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4097 address.
7e8bec7a 4098
c688b954
PH
4099PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4100 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4101 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4102 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4103 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4104
fed77020
PH
4105PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4106 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4107
7fe1560f
PH
4108PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4109 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4110
ebb6e6d5
PH
4111PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4112 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4113 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4114
9c4e8f60
PH
4115PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4116 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4117 overlooked.
4118
4119PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4120
d7174846
PH
4121PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4122 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4123 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4124 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4125 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4126 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4127 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4128
4129 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4130 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4131 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4132 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4133 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4134
4135 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4136 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4137 routed further.
4138
cfe75fc3
PH
4139PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4140 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4141 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4142 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4143 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4144 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4145
be22d70e
PH
4146PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4147
0612b098
PH
4148PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4149 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4150 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4151 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4152 printable escape sequences.
4153
2e0c1448
PH
4154PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4155 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4156 body only.
4157
447d236c
PH
4158PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4159 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4160 are as follows:
4161
4162 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4163 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4164 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4165 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4166 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4167
4168 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4169 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4170 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4171
d20976dc
PH
4172PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4173
f656d135
PH
4174PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4175 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4176 play with."
4177
2e2a30b4
PH
4178PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4179 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4180 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4181 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4182 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4183 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4184 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4185 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4186 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4187 the log output.
4188
9176e9f0
PH
4189PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4190 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4191 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4192 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4193 "make".
4194
7982096b 4195
bbe902f0
PH
4196A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4197----------------------------------------
4198
4199Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4200changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4201needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4202in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4203that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4204release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4205from 4.43.
4206
4207I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42084.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4209those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4210historical information.
4211
4212
f7b63901 4213Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4214-----------------
4215
5fe762f6
PH
4216 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4217
139059f6 4218 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4219 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4220
7086e875
PH
4221 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4222 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4223 place.
4224
35af9f61
PH
4225 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4226 filter fails to execute.
4227
b668c215
PH
4228 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4229 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4230 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4231 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4232 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4233
a494b1e1
PH
4234 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4235
4236 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4237 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4238 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4239 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4240
c5fcb476
PH
4241 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4242 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4243 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4244 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4245 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4246
69358f02
PH
4247 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4248
5be20824
PH
424910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4250
eb2c0248
PH
425111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4252 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4253 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4254 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4255
2a3eea10
PH
425612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4257 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4258 sender verification.
4259
426013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4261 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4262
23c7ff99
PH
426314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4264
4deaf07d
PH
426515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4266 connection timeout.
4267
926e1192
PH
426816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4269 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4270
650edc6f
PH
427117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4272 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4273
2c7db3f5
PH
427418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4275 information about exactly what failed.
4276
3d235903
PH
427719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4278
7c7ad977
PH
427920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4280 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4281 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4282
981756db
PH
428321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4284 It is now set to "smtps".
4285
d4eb88df
PH
428622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4287 ignore_target_hosts.
4288
428923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4290 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4291 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4292 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4293 "[x.x.x.x]".
4294
7d468ab8
PH
429524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4296 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4297 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4298
429925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4300 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4301 wake it up if nothing else does.
4302
62c0818f
PH
430326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4304 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4305 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4306 end up negative.
4307
26034054
PH
430827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4309 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4310
af66f652
PH
431128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4312
90af77f4
PH
431329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4314 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4315 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4316 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4317 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4318 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4319 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4320 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4321
d8ef3577
PH
432230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4323 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4324 than one IP address.
4325
5cb8cbc6
PH
432631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4327 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4328 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4329 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4330
14702f5b
PH
433132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4332 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4333 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4334 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4335 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4336 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4337
063b1e99
PH
433833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4339 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4340 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4341 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4342
652e1b65
PH
434334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4344 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4345 respected.
4346
6f0c9a4f
PH
434735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4348 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4349 $sender_host_address.
4350
33397d19
PH
435136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4352 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4353 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4354 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4355 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4356 very small.
4357
7bb56e1f
PH
435837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4359
4360 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4361 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4362
ea3bc19b
PH
4363 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4364 just the host names, not the priorities.
4365
4366 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4367 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4368 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4369
ea3bc19b 4370 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4371 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4372
0bcb2a0e
PH
437338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4374 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4375 domain.
4376
2ac0e484
PH
437739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4378
4e1fde53
PH
437940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4380 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4381
de365ded
PH
438241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4383 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4384 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4385
f05da2e8
PH
438642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4387
d6453af2
PH
438843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4389
f7b63901
PH
439044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4391
439245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4393 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4394 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4395 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4396 because the tests only now provoked it.
4397
a444213a
PH
439846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4399 (this can affect the format of dates).
4400
0ec020ea
PH
440147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4402 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4403 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4404 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4405
b1206957
PH
440648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4407
440849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4409 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4410 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4411 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4412
26dd5a95
PH
441350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4414 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4415 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4416
343b2385
PH
441751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4418 autoreply.
4419
1c5466b9
PH
442052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4421 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4422 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4423 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4424 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4425 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4426 is going on).
4427
55ee9ee3
PH
442853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4429 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4430 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4431 the line.
4432
d38f8232
PH
443354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4434 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4435 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4436
4437 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4438 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4439 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4440 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4441 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4442 so I produce this patch..."
4443
3295e65b
PH
4444 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4445 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4446 is not defined.
4447
7102e136
PH
444855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4449 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4450 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4451 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4452 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4453
3ca0ba97
PH
445456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4455
c2bcbe20
PH
445657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4457 long debug lines gets shown.
4458
18ce445d
PH
445958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4460 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4461
1f5b4c3d
PH
446259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4463
4464 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4465 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4466 of $primary_hostname.
4467
b975ba52
PH
446860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4469 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4470 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4471 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4472 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4473 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4474 by change 4.50/55 above.
4475
4476 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4477 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4478 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4479 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4480 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4481 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4482 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4483
448461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4485 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4486 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4487 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4488
17ffcae7
PH
448962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4490 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4491
d95f9fdb
PH
449263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4493 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4494 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4495 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4496 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4497
86b8287f
PH
449864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4499 This has been fixed.
4500
60dc5e56
PH
450165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4502 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4503 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4504 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4505 the caching.)
4506
533244af
PH
450766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4508
a5a28604
PH
450967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4510 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4511 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4512 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4513
7e634d24
PH
451468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4515 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4516
3e11c26b
PH
451769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4518 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4519 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4520
6729cf78
PH
452170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4522 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4523 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4524 message there.
4525
00f00ca5
PH
452671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4527 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4528 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4529
c9bdd01c
PH
453072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4531 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4532 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4533 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4534
d43194df
PH
453573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4536 during host lookups.
4537
fe5b5d0b
PH
453874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4539 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4540
4541 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4542
76a2d7ba
PH
454375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4544 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4545 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4546 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4547 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4548 background.
4549
455076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4551 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4552
04f7d5b9
PH
455377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4554 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4555 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4556
bc60667e
PH
455778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4558
bb6e88ff
PH
455979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4560 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4561 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4562 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4563 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4564 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4565 process earlier.
4566
1e70f85b
PH
456780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4568 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4569 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4570 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4571 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4572
457381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4574 tables).
4575
4e01f9d6
PH
457682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4577
1ee1cef2
PH
457883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4579 "vacation" handling.
4580
6e2b4ccc
PH
458184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4582 OS variants using glibc.
4583
8e669ac1
PH
458485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4585
495ae4b0 4586
bbe902f0
PH
4587----------------------------------------------------
4588See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4589----------------------------------------------------
4590
4591
4592Exim version 4.44
4593-----------------
4594
4595 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4596 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4597 transport
4598
4599 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4600 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4601 place.
4602
4603 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4604 filter fails to execute.
4605
4606 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4607 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4608 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4609 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4610 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4611
4612 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4613 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4614 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4615 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4616
4617 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4618 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4619 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4620 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4621 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4622
4623 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4624
4625 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4626 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4627 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4628 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4629
4630 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4631 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4632 sender verification.
4633
463410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4635 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4636
463711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4638 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4639
464012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4641 ignore_target_hosts.
4642
464313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4644 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4645 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4646 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4647 "[x.x.x.x]".
4648
464914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4650 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4651 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4652
465315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4654 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4655 wake it up if nothing else does.
4656
465716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4658 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4659 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4660 end up negative.
4661
466217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4663 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4664
ea3a6f44 466518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4666
466719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4668 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4669 empty pattern.
4670
467120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4672 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4673 one IP address.
4674
ea3a6f44
NM
467521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4676 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4677 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4678 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4679 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4680 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4681
ea3a6f44
NM
468222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4683 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4684 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4685
468623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4687 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4688 $sender_host_address.
4689
469024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4691
ea3a6f44
NM
469225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4693 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4694 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4695
469626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4697 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4698
ea3a6f44
NM
469927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4700 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4701
ea3a6f44
NM
470228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4703 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4704 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4705 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4706
470729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4708 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4709 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4710
ea3a6f44
NM
471130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4712 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4713 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4714 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4715
ea3a6f44
NM
471631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4717 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4718 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4719
ea3a6f44
NM
472031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4721 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4722
ea3a6f44
NM
472332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4724 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4725 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4726 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4727 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4728 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4729 is going on).
bbe902f0 4730
ea3a6f44
NM
473133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4732 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4733 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4734 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4735 CAN-2005-0021
4736
ea3a6f44
NM
473734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4738 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4739 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4740 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4741 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4742 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4743 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4744
4745 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4746 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4747 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4748 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4749 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4750 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4751 CAN-2005-0021
4752
ea3a6f44
NM
475335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4754 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4755 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4756 CAN-2005-0022
4757
ea3a6f44
NM
475836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4759 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4760 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4761 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4762 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4763
ea3a6f44
NM
476437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4765 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4766 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4767 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4768 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4769
ea3a6f44
NM
477038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4771 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4772 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4773 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4774 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4775
4776
495ae4b0
PH
4777Exim version 4.43
4778-----------------
4779
4780 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4781 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4782 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4783 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4784 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4785 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4786 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4787
4788 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4789 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4790 the delivery.
4791
4792 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4793
4794 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4795
4796 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4797 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4798 to local_scan().
4799
4800 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4801 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4802 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4803 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4804 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4805
4806 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4807 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4808
4809 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4810
4811 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4812
481310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4814 header_sender only.
4815
481611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4817 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4818
481912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4820 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4821 affecting debugging statements).
4822
482313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4824
482514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4826 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4827 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4828 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4829 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4830 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4831 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4832 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4833 after the received time, and all would be well.
4834
483515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4836 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4837 condition in an expansion string.
4838
483916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4840
484117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4842 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4843 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4844 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4845 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4846 job under whatever limits there are.
4847
484818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4849
485019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4851 space).
4852
485320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4854 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4855 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4856 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4857 return path is set.
4858
485921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4860 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4861 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4862 binary data in such strings.
4863
486422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4865
486623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4867 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4868 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4869 failure, which is pointless.
4870
487124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4872
487325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4874
487526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4876 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4877 Sender: header lines.
4878
487927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4880 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4881 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4882
488328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4884 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4885 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4886 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4887 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4888 happens.
4889
489029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4891 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4892 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4893 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4894 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4895
489630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4897 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4898 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4899 1024.
4900
490131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4902 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4903
490432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4905 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4906
490733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4908
490932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4910
491133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4912
491334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4914 syntax error.
4915
491635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4917
491836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4919
492037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4921 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4922 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4923 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4924
492538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4926 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4927
4928
4929Exim version 4.42
4930-----------------
4931
4932 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4933 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4934 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4935 it was not quoted.
4936 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4937 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4938 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4939 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4940 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4941 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4942
4943 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4944 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4945 verification failure".
4946
4947 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4948 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4949 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4950 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4951
4952 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4953 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4954 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4955 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4956 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4957 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4958 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4959 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4960 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4961 treated as a timeout.
4962
4963 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4964 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4965 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4966 not set for Exim filters).
4967
4968 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4969 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4970 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4971
4972 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4973
4974 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4975 try to make them clearer.
4976
4977 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4978 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4979
4980 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4981
4982 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4983
498410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4985 only the Cygwin environment.
4986
498711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4988 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4989 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4990 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4991 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4992
499312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4994 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4995 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4996 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4997 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4998 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4999 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5000
500113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5002 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5003
500414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5005
5006 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5007 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5008 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5009
5010 To: susanne@some.where
5011
5012 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5013 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5014 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5015 of addresses in From: header lines).
5016
5017 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5018 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5019 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5020
5021 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5022 treated as non-personal.
5023
5024 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5025 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5026
502715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5028
502916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5030
503117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5032 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5033 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5034
503518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5036 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5037
503819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5039 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5040 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5041 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5042 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5043 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5044
504520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5046 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5047 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5048 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5049 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5050 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5051 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5052 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5053
5054 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5055
505621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5057 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5058
505922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5060 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5061 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5062
506323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5064 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5065
506624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5067 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5068 rather than long int.
5069
507025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5071
507226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5073
5074
5075Exim version 4.41
5076-----------------
5077
5078 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5079 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5080 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5081 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5082 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5083 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5084
5085
5086Exim version 4.40
5087-----------------
5088
5089 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5090 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5091
5092 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5093 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5094 socklen_t is defined.
5095
5096 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5097 always exist.
5098
5099 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5100 configured.
5101
5102 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5103 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5104 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5105 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5106 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5107
5108 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5109 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5110 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5111 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5112
5113 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5114 of flapping under certain conditions.
5115
5116 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5117 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5118 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5119
5120 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5121
512210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5123
512411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5125 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5126 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5127 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5128
512912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5130 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5131 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5132 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5133 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5134 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5135 preserved with the message after it was received.
5136
513713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5138 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5139 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5140 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5141 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5142 test suite worked just fine.
5143
514414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5145 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5146 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5147
514815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5149 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5150 string.
5151
515216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5153 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5154 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5155 does not fully solve it.
5156
515717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5158 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5159 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5160 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5161 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5162
516318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5164 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5165 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5166
516719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5168 string, for example:
5169
5170 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5171
5172 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5173 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5174 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5175 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5176 the routers could not see them.
5177
517820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5179 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5180
518121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5182 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5183 output).
5184
518522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5186 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5187 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5188 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5189 that needed quoting.
5190
519123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5192 was not being matched caselessly.
5193
519424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5195 backslashes.
5196
519725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5198 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5199 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5200 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5201 when use_sender is false.
5202
520326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5204
520527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5206
520728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5208
520929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5210 the configuration file.
5211
521230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5213 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5214
521531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5216
521732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5218 bytes in the message body.
5219
522033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5221 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5222 delivery.
5223
522434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5225
522635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5227
522836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5229 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5230 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5231 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5232 another IP address.
5233
5234
5235Exim version 4.34
5236-----------------
5237
5238 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5239 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5240
5241 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5242 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5243 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5244 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5245 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5246
5247 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5248 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5249
5250 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5251 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5252 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5253
5254 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5255 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5256 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5257
5258 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5259 for routers.
5260
5261 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5262 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5263 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5264 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5265 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5266 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5267 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5268
5269
5270Exim version 4.33
5271-----------------
5272
5273 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5274 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5275 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5276 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5277 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5278 default (and expected) setting.
5279
5280 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5281 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5282 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5283 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5284
5285 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5286 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5287
5288 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5289 in domain lists.
5290
5291 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5292 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5293 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5294 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5295 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5296 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5297
5298 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5299 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5300 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5301
5302 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5303 part (NOT match_host).
5304
5305 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5306
5307 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5308 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5309 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5310 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5311 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5312 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5313 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5314 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5315 the same named file.
5316
531710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5318 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5319 when Exim is built.
5320
532111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5322 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5323 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5324 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5325 a host name.
5326
532712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5328 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5329 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5330
533113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5332
533314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5334
533515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5336
533716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5338 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5339
534017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5341 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5342 before starting the TLS session.
5343
534418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5345
534619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5347 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5348
534920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5350 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5351 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5352 colon in the middle).
5353
5354
5355Exim version 4.32
5356-----------------
5357
5358 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5359 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5360 multiple configurations are in use.
5361
5362 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5363 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5364 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5365 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5366 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5367 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5368
5369 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5370 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5371
5372 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5373 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5374 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5375
5376 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5377 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5378 occurs.
5379
5380 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5381 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5382
5383 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5384
5385 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5386 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5387
5388 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5389
5390 -prval:sval
5391
5392 is equivalent to
5393
5394 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5395
5396 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5397 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5398 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5399 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5400 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5401
540210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5403 Exim's behaviour:
5404
5405 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5406 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5407 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5408 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5409 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5410 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5411
5412 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5413 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5414 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5415 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5416 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5417 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5418 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5419 string.
5420
5421 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5422 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5423 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5424 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5425 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5426
542711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5428
542912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5430 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5431 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5432
543313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5434
543514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5436 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5437 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5438 information.
5439
544015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5441 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5442
544316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5444 Three changes have been made:
5445
5446 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5447 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5448 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5449 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5450 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5451
5452 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5453 been restored.
5454
5455 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5456 the modified behaviour.
5457
5458
5459Exim version 4.31
5460-----------------
5461
5462 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5463 Larry Rosenman.
5464
5465 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5466 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5467
5468 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5469 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5470 try to track down a specific problem.
5471
5472 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5473 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5474 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5475
5476 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5477 warning.
5478
5479 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5480 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5481 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5482 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5483 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5484 some earlier ones do not.
5485
5486 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5487
5488 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5489 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5490 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5491 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5492 address literals are enabled, of course).
5493
5494 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5495
549610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5497 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5498 by a command such as
5499
5500 exim -f "" ...
5501
5502 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5503
550411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5505
550612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5507 remained set. It is now erased.
5508
550913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5510 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5511
551214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5513 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5514 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5515 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5516 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5517 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5518 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5519 appropriate error code.
5520
552115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5522 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5523 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5524 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5525 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5526 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5527
552816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5529 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5530 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5531
553217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5533 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5534 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5535 terminate the header.
5536
553718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5538 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5539 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5540
554119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5542 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5543 (4.30/29). In particular:
5544
5545 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5546 imposed.
5547
5548 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5549 to write a maildirsize file.
5550
5551 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5552 the transport, the new value overrides.
5553
5554 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5555 count.
5556
555720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5558 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5559 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5560 space or a tab.
5561
556221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5563 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5564 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5565 the fallback hosts.
5566
556722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5568 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5569 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5570
557123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5572 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5573 using a union.
5574
557524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5576 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5577 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5578
557925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5580
558126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5582
558327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5584
558528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5586 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5587 become corrupted.
5588
558929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5590 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5591 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5592 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5593 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5594 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5595 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5596 too great.
5597
559830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5599 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5600 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5601 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5602 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5603 incorrectly.
5604
560531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5606 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5607 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5608 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5609 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5610 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5611 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5612 cached value only when the same options are set.
5613
561432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5615
561633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5617 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5618 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5619 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5620 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5621
562234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5623 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5624 it is clearly obsolete.
5625
562635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5627 transport.
5628
562936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5630 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5631 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5632 times.
5633
563437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5635 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5636 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5637 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5638 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5639
564038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5641 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5642 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5643 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5644
564539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5646
5647 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5648
5649 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5650 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5651 2^31.
5652
565340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5654 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5655 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5656 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5657 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5658 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5659 $localpart_data.
5660
566141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5662 with the -f command-line option.
5663
566442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5665 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5666 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5667 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5668 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5669 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5670
567143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5672 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5673 line.
5674
567544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5676 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5677 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5678 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5679 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5680 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5681 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5682 buffer is too small.
5683
568445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5685 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5686
568746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5688 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5689 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5690 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5691 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5692 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5693 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5694 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5695 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5696
569747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5698 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5699 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5700
570148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5702 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5703 ACL").
5704
570549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5706 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5707 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5708 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5709 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5710
571150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5712 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5713 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5714 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5715 is set.
5716
571751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5718
571952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5720
572153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5722 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5723
572454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5725 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5726 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5727
572855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5729 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5730 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5731 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5732 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5733
573456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5735 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5736 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5737 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5738 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5739 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5740 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5741
574257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5743 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5744 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5745 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5746 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5747 the test of how many are available.
5748
574958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5750 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5751 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5752 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5753 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5754 new message is started.
5755
575659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5757 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5758
575960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5760 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5761
576261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5763 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5764 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5765 is no long logged.
5766
576762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5768 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5769 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5770 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5771 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5772 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5773 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5774
577563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5776 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5777 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5778 interpreted as octal.
5779
578064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5781 setting.
5782
578365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5784 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5785 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5786 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5787 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5788 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5789
579066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5791 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5792 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5793 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5794
5795 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5796 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5797 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5798 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5799
5800 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5801 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5802 is a bug fix.
5803
5804 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5805 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5806
580767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5808
580968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5810 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5811 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5812 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5813
581469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5815 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5816 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5817 supplied", which is not helpful.
5818
581970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5820 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5821 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5822
582371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5824 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5825 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5826 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5827 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5828 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5829 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5830 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5831
583272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5833 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5834 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5835 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5836 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5837
583873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5839 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5840 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5841 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5842 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5843 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5844
584574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5846 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5847 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5848
584975. Added write_rejectlog option.
5850
585176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5852 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5853 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5854 variables.
5855
585677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5857
585878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5859 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5860 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5861 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5862 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5863 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5864 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5865 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5866
586779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5868 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5869 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5870 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5871 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5872
587380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5874 Haardt.
5875
587681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5877 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5878 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5879 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5880 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5881 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5882 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5883 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5884 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5885
5886
5887Exim version 4.30
5888-----------------
5889
5890 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5891 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5892 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5893
5894 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5895 fixed.
5896
5897 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5898 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5899 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5900
5901 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5902 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5903 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5904 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5905 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5906 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5907
5908 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5909 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5910 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5911 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5912 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5913 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5914 the Exim test suite.
5915
5916 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5917 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5918 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5919 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5920
5921 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5922 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5923 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5924 specify it in this variable.
5925
5926 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5927 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5928 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5929 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5930
5931 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5932 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5933 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5934 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5935
5936 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5937 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5938 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5939 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5940 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5941
5942 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5943
594410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5945 they are logged.
5946
594711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5948 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5949 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5950 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5951 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5952
595312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5954 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5955
595613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5957 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5958 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5959 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5960 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5961
596214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5963 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5964
596515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5966 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5967 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5968
596916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5970 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5971
597217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5973 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5974
597518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5976 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5977 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5978
597919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5980 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5981
598220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5983 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5984 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5985 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5986
598721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5988
598922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5990 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5991 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5992 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5993
599423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5995
599624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5997 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5998
599925. Added .include_if_exists.
6000
600126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6002 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6003 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6004 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6005 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6006 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6007
600827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6009
601028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6011 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6012 this.
6013
601429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6015
601630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6017 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6018
6019 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6020 550 Sender verify failed
6021
6022 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6023 the final line of the response.
6024
602531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6026 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6027 all other user lookups.
6028
602932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6030 delivery time.
6031
603233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6033 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6034 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6035 result into an int without checking.
6036
603734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6038 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6039 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6040
604135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6042 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6043 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6044 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6045
604636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6047 correctly.
6048
604937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6050 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6051
605238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6053 to the empty sender.
6054
605539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6056 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6057 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6058 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6059 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6060 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6061 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6062 panic log.
6063
606440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6065 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6066 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6067 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6068 used.
6069
607041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6071 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6072
607342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6074 timestamps.
6075
607643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6077 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6078
607944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6080
608145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6082 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6083 logs.
6084
608546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6086 as soon as it is encountered.
6087
608847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6089
609048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6091 rewritten to "<>".
6092
609349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6094 recognizes a tab character.
6095
609650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6097 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6098 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6099 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6100
610151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6102
610352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6104 crash.
6105
610653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6107
610854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6109
611055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6111 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6112 2822.
6113
611456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6115 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6116 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6117 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6118 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6119
612057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6121 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6122
612358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6124 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6125 list (.included file names were always shown).
6126
612759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6128 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6129 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6130 root at that time.
6131
613260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6133 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6134
613561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6136
613762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6138
613963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6140
614164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6142 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6143 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6144 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6145 failures to open the logs.
6146
614765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6148 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6149 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6150 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6151 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6152 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6153 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6154
6155
6156Exim version 4.24
6157-----------------
6158
6159 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6160 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6161 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6162 change 4.23/1.
6163
6164 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6165 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6166 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6167
6168 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6169 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6170 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6171
6172 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6173 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6174 causing some misleading effects.
6175
6176 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6177 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6178 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6179
6180 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6181 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6182 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6183 queue-runner function directly.
6184
6185
6186Exim version 4.23
6187-----------------
6188
6189 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6190 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6191
6192 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6193 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6194 was always written to the default place.
6195
6196 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6197 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6198 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6199
6200 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6201
6202 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6203
6204 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6205 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6206 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6207
6208 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6209 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6210 must start.
6211
6212 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6213 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6214 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6215
6216 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6217 command line option is disabled.
6218
6219 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6220 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6221
6222 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6223
6224 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6225
6226 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6227 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6228
622910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6230
623111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6232 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6233 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6234 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6235 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6236 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6237
623812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6239 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6240 timeout.
6241
624213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6243 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6244
624514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6246 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6247
624815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6249 received was valid base64.
6250
625116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6252 name of the variable that was being set.
6253
625417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6255
625618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6257 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6258 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6259 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6260 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6261 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6262
626319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6264
626520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6266 nor realm was specified.
6267
626821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6269 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6270 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6271 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6272
627322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6274 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6275 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6276
627723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6278 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6279 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6280
628124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6282 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6283 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6284 some systems use these upper case variants.
6285
628625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6287 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6288 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6289 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6290
629126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6292
629327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6294 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6295
629628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6297 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6298 expansion variable.
6299
630029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6301
630230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6303 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6304 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6305 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6306
630731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6308 using it.
6309
631032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6311 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6312 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6313
631433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6315 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6316
631734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6318 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6319 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6320 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6321
632235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6323 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6324 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6325
632636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6327
632837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6329 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6330 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6331 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6332 aborted.
6333
633438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6335 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6336 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6337
633839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6339
634040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6341 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6342
634341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6344 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6345
634642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6347 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6348 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6349 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6350 when emails are that large.
6351
6352
6353
6354Exim version 4.22
6355-----------------
6356
6357 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6358 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6359
6360 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6361 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6362 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6363
6364 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6365 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6366 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6367
6368 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6369 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6370 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6371 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6372 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6373
6374 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6375 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6376 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6377 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6378 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6379 ever.
6380
6381 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6382 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6383 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6384 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6385 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6386 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6387 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6388 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6389 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6390 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6391 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6392 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6393 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6394 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6395
6396 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6397 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6398 parameterised it.
6399
6400 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6401 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6402 error should be diagnosed.
6403
6404 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6405 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6406 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6407 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6408 appeared instead of "NULL".
6409
641010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6411 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6412 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6413 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6414 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6415 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6416 proceeds).
6417
6418 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6419 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6420 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6421
6422
6423Exim version 4.21
6424-----------------
6425
6426 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6427 or receiver verification errors.
6428
6429 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6430 name.
6431
6432 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6433 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6434 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6435 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6436
6437 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6438 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6439 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6440 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6441 shouldn't happen again.
6442
6443 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6444 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6445 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6446
6447 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6448 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6449
6450 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6451
6452 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6453 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6454
6455 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6456 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6457 RFC.
6458
645910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6460 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6461 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6462
646311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6464 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6465 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6466 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6467
646812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6469 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6470 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6471 to define what should happen).
6472
647313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6474 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6475 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6476
647714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6478
647915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6480
648116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6482 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6483
4c04137d 648417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6485 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6486 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6487 structure in all cases.
6488
6489 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6490 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6491 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6492 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6493
649418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6495 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6496 domain name.
6497
649819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6499 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6500
650120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6502 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6503
650421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6505 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6506 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6507
650822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6509 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6510 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6511
651223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6513 the book and for uniformity.
6514
651524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6516
651725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6518 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6519 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6520 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6521 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6522 non-existent command as the problem.
6523
652426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6525 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6526 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6527
652827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6529
653028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6531 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6532 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6533
653429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6535 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6536 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6537 timestamps using strftime().
6538
653930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6540 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6541
654232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6543 transport-time rewrites.
6544
654533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6546 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6547 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6548 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6549
655034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6551 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6552
655335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6554 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6555 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6556 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6557 comma and a space.
6558
655936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6560 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6561 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6562 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6563 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6564 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6565 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6566
656737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6568 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6569 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6570 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6571 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6572
657338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6574 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6575 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6576 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6577 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6578 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6579 remaining text gets split now.
6580
658139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6582 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6583 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6584 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6585
658640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6587 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6588 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6589 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6590 $return_path.
6591
659241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6593 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6594 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6595 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6596 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6597 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6598 passed through if needed.
6599
660042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6601 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6602 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6603 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6604 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6605 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6606
660743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6608 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6609 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6610 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6611 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6612
661344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6614 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6615 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6616 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6617 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6618
661945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6620 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6621 noticed.
6622
662346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6624 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6625 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6626 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6627 mayhem of various kinds.
6628
662947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6630 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6631 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6632 the right test for positive values.
6633
663448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6635 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6636 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6637 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6638 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6639 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6640 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6641 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6642 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6643 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6644 envelope.
6645
664649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6647 module.
6648
664950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6650 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6651 forbidding it.
6652
665351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6654 the existing equality matching.
6655
665652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6657 dealing with inode numbers.
6658
665953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6660 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6661 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6662
666354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6664 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6665 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6666 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6667 local_scan().
6668
666955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6670 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6671 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6672 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6673 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6674 relay addresses has also been removed.
6675
667656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6677
667857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6679 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6680 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6681
668258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6683 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6684 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6685 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6686 processing applies to CR:
6687
6688 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6689 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6690
6691 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6692 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6693 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6694 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6695
669659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6697 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6698 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6699
670060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6701 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6702 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6703 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6704 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6705 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6706 arisen.
6707
670861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6709 program routers.
6710
671162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6712 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6713 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6714 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6715 adds:
6716
6717 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6718
6719 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6720
6721 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6722
672363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6724 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6725 not considered personal.
6726
672764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6728
672965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6730
673166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6732
673367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6734 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6735 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6736 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6737 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6738 header lines, and spool format errors.
6739
674068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6741 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6742 for more flexibility.
6743
674469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6745 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6746 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6747
674870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6749 Sabourenkov.
6750
675171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6752 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6753 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6754 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6755 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6756 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6757 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6758 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6759 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6760
676172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6762 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6763 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6764 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6765 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6766 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6767 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6768
676973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6770 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6771 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6772
677374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6774 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6775 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6776 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6777 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6778 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6779 instead of killing the process with assert().
6780
678175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6782 than Unicode encoding.
6783
678476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6785 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6786 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6787 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6788
678977. Added process_log_path.
6790
679178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6792 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6793
679479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6795 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6796
679780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6798 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6799 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6800
680181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6802 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6803 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6804 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6805 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6806 were applied:
6807
6808 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6809 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6810 as invalid.
6811
681282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6813 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6814 they will be used during message reception.
6815
6816
6817Exim version 4.20
6818-----------------
6819
6820The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6821
6822****