Drain socket to get clean TCP FINs
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.88
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
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13JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
22
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23JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
25
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26JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
28
0bd1b1ed 29JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 30 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 31
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32JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
34
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35JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
37
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38JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
39
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40JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
41 certificate).
42
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43JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
48
49JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
51
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52JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
57
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58JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
60
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61JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
62 Previously they were not counted.
63
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64JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
65 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
66 that needed the lookup.
67
803628d5 68JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a norml message arrival "<="; now
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69 distinguished as "(=".
70
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71JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
72 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
73
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74JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
75
76JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
77 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 78
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79JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quaratine results,
80 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
81
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82JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
83 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
84 compatible.
85
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86JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
87 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
88 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
89 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
90
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91JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
92
d7bed771 93JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the sourcecode
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94 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
95 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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97JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
98 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
99 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
100 be lost.
101
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102JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
103 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
104 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
105 itself :(
106
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108Exim version 4.87
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110JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
111 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
112 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
113 client dropping the TLS connection.
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115TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
116 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
117
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118TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
119 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
120 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
121 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
122 outgoing I= field.
123
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124JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
125 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
126 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
127 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
128 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
129 check on the next write.
130
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131HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
132 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
133 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
134 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
135 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
136
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137JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
138 mime_regex ACL conditions.
139
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140JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
141 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
142 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
143
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144JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
145 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
146 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
147 an authenticate fail is not an error.
148
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149HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
150 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
151
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152JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
153 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
154
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155JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
156 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
157 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
158 distinct.
159
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160JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
161
162JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
163
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164JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
165
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166JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
167 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
168
98b98887 169JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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170 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
171
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172JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
173
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174JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
175 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
176
177JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
178
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179JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
180 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
181
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182JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
183
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184JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
185 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
186 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
187 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
188 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
189 they will retry in-clear.
190 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
191 at installation time.
192
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193HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
194 with the $config_file variable.
195
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196JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
197 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
198 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
199 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
200 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
201
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202GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
203 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
204 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
205 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
206 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
207
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208JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
209
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210JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
211 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
212 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
213 list order is no longer honoured.
214
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215JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
216 for DKIM processing.
217
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218JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
219 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 220
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221JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
222 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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223 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
224 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 225
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226JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
227 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
228
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229JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
230 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
231
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232JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
233 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
234
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235JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
236
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237JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
238 cached by the daemon.
239
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240JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
241 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
242
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243JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
244 keys are given for lookup.
245
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246JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
247 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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248 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
249 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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251JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
252 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
253 server-side so match that on older versions.
254
07c73177 255JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 256 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 257 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 258
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259JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
260 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
261
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262JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
263 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
264 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 265 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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266 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
267 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
268 initial truncated version.
269
ab9152ff 270JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
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272JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
273
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274JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
275 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
276
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277JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
278
bc3c7bb7 279HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 280
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281JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
282 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
283 induced overflows.
284
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285JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
286 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
287 stage.
288
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289JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
290 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
291
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292JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
293 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
294 former class.
295
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296JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
297 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
298 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
299
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300JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
301 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
302 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
303 extraction. Accept either.
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309JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
310 expanded.
311
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312JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
313
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314JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
315 it.
316
01a4a5c5 317JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 318 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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319 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
320 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
321
cb1d7830 322JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 323 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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324 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
325
610ff438 326JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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327 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
328 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
329 TLS connections
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331JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
332 sites use this now.
333
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334JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
335 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
336 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
337 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
338 have a dsn_lasthop option.
339
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340JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
341 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 342 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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344JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
345
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346JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
347 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
348
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349JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
350 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
351
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352JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
353 /defer_ok option.
354
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355JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
356 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
357
fd4d8871 358JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 359 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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360 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
361
362JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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363 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
364 specify a port-range.
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366JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
367 timeout value per server.
368
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369JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
370 now have the list separator specified.
371
8a512ed5 372JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 373 option values.
8a512ed5 374
82c0c8ea 375JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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376 under OpenSSL.
377
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378JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
379
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380JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
381 rather than the verbs used.
382
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383JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
384 from 255 to 1024 chars.
385
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386JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
387
cfab9d68 388HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 389 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 390
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391JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
392 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
393
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394HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
395 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
396
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397JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
398
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399JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
400
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401JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
402 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
403 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
404 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
405
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406JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
407
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408JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
409 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
410
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411JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
412 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
413
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414JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
415
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416JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
417
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418JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
419
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420JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
421 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
422
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423JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
424 added for tls authenticator.
425
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426HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
427
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431TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
432 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
433 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
434 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
435 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
436 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
437 the script parsing/test process like normal.
438
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439TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
440 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
441 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
442 function when detected.
443
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444JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
445 cause callback expansion.
446
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447TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
448 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
449 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
450 instead of bool when processing it.
451
0f06b4f2 452JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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453 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
454
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455JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
456
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457JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
458
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459TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
460
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461TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
462 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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464JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
465 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
466 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
467 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
468 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
469 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
470
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471JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
472 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
473 exceeded it.
474
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475JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
476 version 3.3.6 or later.
477
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478JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
479 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
480 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 481 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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482 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
483 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
484 option is defined.
774ef2d7 485
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486TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
487 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
488
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489JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
490 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
491 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
492 matches.
493
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494JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
495 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
496 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
497
ad4c5ff9
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498JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
499 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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500
501JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
502 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
503 syntax errors.
504
3394b36a 505JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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506
507JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
508 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
509
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510TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
511 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
512 tarball.
513
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514JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
515
516JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
517 Bug 1561.
518
519JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
520 output list separator was used.
521
8bc732e8 522
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523Exim version 4.84
524-----------------
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525TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
526 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
527 return.
1f0ebb98 528
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529JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
530 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
531
532JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
533
534TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 535 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 536
1f0ebb98 537
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538Exim version 4.83
539-----------------
540
541TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
542
543 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
544 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
545 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
546 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
547 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
548 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
549
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550TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
551 utilities have not been installed.
552
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553JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
554 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
555
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556TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
557 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
558
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559TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
560 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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561 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
562 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 563
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564JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
565
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566TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
567 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
568
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569PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
570 not dns_use_dnssec.
571
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572JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
573
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574TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
575 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
576 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
577
8ddef691 578TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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579 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
580 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
581 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
582 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 583 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 584
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585JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
586
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587JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
588 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
589
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590JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
591 failed delivery.
592
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593JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
594
511a6c14 595JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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596
597JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
598 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 599
51c7471d
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600JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
601 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
602
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603TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
604
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605JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
606
76146973
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607JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
608 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
609
610 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
611 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
612 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
613
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614TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
615 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
616 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
617 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 618
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619JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
620
8c51eead 621JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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622 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
623 lookup).
8c51eead 624
deae092e
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625TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
626 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
627 Schlichting.
35aba663 628
fd3b6a4a 629JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 630 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 631
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632TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
633 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
634
2b4a568d
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635JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
636
d2af03f4
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637TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
638 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
639 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
640
9d1c15ef
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641JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
642 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
643
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644JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
645 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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646 hosts_request_ocsp.
647
ed3bba5f 648JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 649 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 650 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 651
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652JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
653
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654TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
655 Christian Aistleitner.
656
f2de3a33
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657JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
658
6eb02f88
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659TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
660 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
661
00bff6f6
JH
662JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
663 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
664
071c51f7
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665JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
666 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
667
a6d4c44e
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668TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
669 support and error reporting did not work properly.
670
3ae173e7
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671TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
672 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
673
c13d09b8
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674TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
675 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
676 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
677
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678JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
679
66be95e0
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680PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
681 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
682 Jasper Wallace.
683
1bd0d12b
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684JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
685
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686TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
687 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
688 CVE-2014-2972
689
fd3b6a4a 690
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693
694PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
695
12f69989
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696PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
697 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
698
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699PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
700 by GnuTLS.
701
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702PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
703 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
704 routines.
705
13363eba 706PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 707
66645890 708PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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709 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
710 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
711 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
712 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 713
a3fb9793 714PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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715 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
716 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
717 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 718 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 719 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 720
d27f98fe 721TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 722
6822b909
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723TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
724
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725TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
726 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
727
ae0e32ee 728TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 729 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 730 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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731
732TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 733
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734TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
735
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736TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
737 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
738
976b7e9f
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739JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
740
be4a1376
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741JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
742
ec4b68e5
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743PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
744
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745NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
746 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 747
585121e2 748JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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750PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
751 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
752 function.
a5f239e4 753
13d08c90
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754PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
755 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
756
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757JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
758 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
759 "acl = name arg..."
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761JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
762
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763JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
764
ea722490 765JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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766 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
767
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768JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
769 Bugzilla 884.
770
362145b5
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771JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
772 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
773
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774JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
775 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
776
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777PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
778 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 779 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 780
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781JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
782 authenticators.
783
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784JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
785 for control.
786
005ac57f
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787PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
788
3f1df0e3
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789PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
790 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
791 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
792 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
793
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794TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
795
796 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
797 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
798 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
799 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
800 the retry rules.
801
802 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
803 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
804 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
805
806 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
807 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
808 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
809 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
810
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811 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
812 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
813 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
814 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
815 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
816 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
817 delivery, as in LMTP.
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818
819 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
820 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
821
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822TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
823
824 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
825
826 Resent-From: f
827
828 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
829 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
830 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
831 username as equal to the username.
832
833 This change corrects that bug.
834
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835GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
836 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
837 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
838
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839TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
840
14c7b357
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841PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
842 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
843 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
844 NULL dereference and crash.
845
94eaf700
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846JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
847
6f5a440a
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848PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
849 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
850 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
851
514ee161
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852SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
853
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854JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
855 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
856 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
857 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
858 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
859 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
860 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
861 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
862 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
863 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
864 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
865
035c7f1e
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866PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
867 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
868
ff284120
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869PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
870 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
871 Bugzilla 880.
872
26e72755
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873PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
874 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
875 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
876 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
877 an empty string is now equivalent.
878
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879PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
880 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
881 not performing validation itself.
882
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883PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
884 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
885
fcc8e047
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886JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
887 Bugzilla 321, 823.
888
7142daca
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889TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
890
8c020188
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891PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
892 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
893 other false fix of the same issue.
894 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
895 Bugzilla 1363.
896
d13cdd30
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897PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
898 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
899
e2fbf4a2
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900PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
901 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
902 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
903
f4c1088b
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904PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
905 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
906 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
907
c5c2182f
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908TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
909
73431ca9
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910JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
911
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912TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
913 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
914
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915TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
916 Alexander Miroch.
917
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918TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
919 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
920 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
921 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
922 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 923
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924TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
925 the src/util/ subdirectory.
926
581d7bee 927TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 928 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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929 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
930
931TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
932 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
933 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
934 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
935
237b2cf2
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936TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
937
9fc5a352
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938TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
939 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
940 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 941
b10e4ec2
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942TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
943
e2cebd74
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944TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
945 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
946 interaction.
947
948TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
949 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
950
2519e60d
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951TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
952 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
953
e78e6ecf 954
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955Exim version 4.80.1
956-------------------
957
958PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
959 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 960 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 961
ea722490 962
b1770b6e 963Exim version 4.80
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965
966PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
967 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
968 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
969
23c7e742
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970NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
971
b322aac8
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972NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
973 improved.
974
4a891427
NM
975NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
976
c1e794ba 977PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 978
97753960
PP
979PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
980
981PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
982 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
983
df6303fa
PP
984PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
985 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
986
7e6a8985
PP
987PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
988 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
989
f1e05cc7 990PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
991 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
992 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 993
4c287009
PP
994PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
995
b98bb9ac
PP
996PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
997 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
998
4a6a987a
PP
999PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1000
c45dd180 1001PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1002
7db8d074
PP
1003PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1004 non-compliant senders.
1005 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1006
eae0036b 1007NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1008 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1009 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1010
dec5017e
PP
1011PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1012 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1013 in spool file corruption.
1014
c80c5570
PP
1015PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1016 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1017 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1018 "Got SSL error 2".
1019
076b11e2
PP
1020TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1021 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1022 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1023
5407bfff
JH
1024JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1025 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1026
9e45c72b
PP
1027JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1028
e74376d8
PP
1029PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1030 diagnostics.
1031 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1032
da3ad30d
PP
1033PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
1034 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1035 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1036
7be682ca
PP
1037PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1038 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1039 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1040 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1041
ef840681
PP
1042PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1043 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1044
5bfb4cdf
PP
1045PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1046 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1047 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1048 resolver implementation change.
1049
c6e95d22
PP
1050PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1051 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1052
9cbad13b
PP
1053PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1054
9ee44efb
PP
1055PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1056
6a6084f8
PP
1057PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1058 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1059
12dd53c7
PP
1060PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1061 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1062
9e45c72b 1063JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1064 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1065
17c76198
PP
1066PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1067 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1068 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1069 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1070 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1071
53947857 1072PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1073
eae0036b 1074PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1075 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1076 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1077
9e45c72b 1078JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1079
7390e768
PP
1080PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1081 read-only, out of scope).
1082 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1083
08488c86
PP
1084PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1085 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1086 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1087 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1088
6475bd82
PP
1089PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1090
81f91683
PP
1091PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1092 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1093 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1094 real issues in debug logging.
1095
5779e6aa
PP
1096PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1097 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1098
3375e053
PP
1099PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1100 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1101 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1102
1103PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1104 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1105 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1106 problems.
3375e053 1107
9d26b8c0
PP
1108PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1109 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1110
57eb9e91 1111PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1112 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1113 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1114 needs to override this, it can.
1115
16880d1a
PP
1116PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1117 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1118 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1119
a799883d
PP
1120PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1121 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1122 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1123 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1124
3ecab157 1125PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1126
0599f9cf 1127
867fcbf5
PP
1128Exim version 4.77
1129-----------------
1130
1131PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1132 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1133
f1a29782
TF
1134TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1135
ab42bd23
TK
1136TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1137 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1138
0ca0cf52
TF
1139TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1140 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1141
921b12ca
TF
1142TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1143 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1144 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1145
1146 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1147 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1148 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1149 not safe for signals.
1150
1151 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1152 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1153 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1154 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1155 exiwhat.
1156
c99ce5c9
TF
1157TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1158
1159 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1160 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1161 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1162 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1163 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1164
1165 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1166 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1167 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1168 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1169 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1170 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1171
1172 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1173 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1174 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1175 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1176
1177 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1178 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1179 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1180 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1181
1182 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1183 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1184 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1185 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1186 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1187 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1188 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1189 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1190 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1191
1192 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1193 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1194 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1195 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1196
1197 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1198 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1199 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1200 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1201 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1202 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1203 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1204 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1205 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1206 details in the main documentation.
1207
3634fc25
TF
1208TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1209
792e8a19
TF
1210TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1211
5901f0ab
TF
1212TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1213 repository when doing development or release builds.
1214
7f2a2a43
PP
1215PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1216 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1217
061b7ebd
PP
1218PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1219 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1220 Bugzilla 97.
1221
e12f8c32
PP
1222PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1223
9e949f00 1224PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1225 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1226
1227PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1228 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1229
555ae6af 1230PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1231 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1232
1233PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1234 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1235
6f7fe114
PP
1236PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1237 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1238
c566dd90
PP
1239PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1240 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1241 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1242 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1243
d6cc7c78 1244PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1245 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1246 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1247
0d0e4455
PP
1248PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1249
3399bb60 1250PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1251
1252PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1253 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1254
0ca0cf52 1255
10906672
PP
1256Exim version 4.76
1257-----------------
1258
1259PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1260
754a0503
PP
1261PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1262 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1263
c0c7b2da
PP
1264PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1265
e97d1f08
PP
1266PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1267
084c1d8c
PP
1268PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1269 Bugzilla 1098.
1270
4e7ee012
PP
1271PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1272 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1273
c8d52a00
PP
1274TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1275 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1276
54e7ce4a
PP
1277PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1278 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1279
5ee6f336
PP
1280PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1281 Bugzilla 1104.
1282
c8d52a00 1283TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1284 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1285
1286TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1287 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1288 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1289 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1290
1291PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1292 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1293
10906672 1294
aa097c4c
NM
1295Exim version 4.75
1296-----------------
1297
4c9ef03a 1298NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1299 Bugzilla 1073
1300
7f3d9eff
TF
1301TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1302 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1303 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1304
159f52d2
TF
1305TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1306 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1307
0cc9542a
PP
1308PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1309 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1310 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1311
f7274286
PP
1312PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1313 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1314
7b797365
PP
1315PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1316 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1317
caacae52
NM
1318NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1319 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1320
09dcaba9
NM
1321NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1322 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1323
bc19a55b
PP
1324PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1325 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1326
bd4c9759
NM
1327NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1328 Fixes bug 943.
1329
b72aab72
PP
1330PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1331 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1332
2fe76745
PP
1333PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1334 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1335
76aa570c
PP
1336PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1337 SQL string expansion failure details.
1338 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1339
f1e5fef5
PP
1340PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1341 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1342
4d805ee9
PP
1343PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1344 extern declarations in function scope.
1345 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1346
cd59ab18
PP
1347PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1348 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1349 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1350 a kernel bug).
1351
332f5cf3
PP
1352PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1353 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1354
29cfeb94
PP
1355PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1356 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1357
660242ad
PP
1358PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1359 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1360
bc4bc4c5
PP
1361PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1362 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1363
2e64baa9
NM
1364NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1365 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1366 Dennis Davis.
1367
bddd7526
PP
1368PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1369
6bac1a9a
PP
1370PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1371
552193f0
NM
1372NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1373 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1374
1b587e48
TF
1375TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1376 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1377
aa097c4c 1378
8c07b69f
TF
1379Exim version 4.74
1380-----------------
1381
1382TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1383 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1384
c0ea85ab
TF
1385TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1386 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1387
0761d44e
TF
1388TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1389
0a349494
PP
1390DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1391 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1392 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1393
1394PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1395 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1396 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1397
fea24b2e
PP
1398PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1399 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1400 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1401 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1402
6545de78
PP
1403PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1404 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1405 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1406 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1407
1670ef10
PP
1408PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1409 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1410 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1411 arbitrary files.
1412
c0886197
PP
1413PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1414 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1415
b7487bce
PP
1416PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1417 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1418 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1419 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1420 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1421
8c07b69f 1422
97fd1e48 1423Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1424-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1425
1426PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1427 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1428 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1429
6901c596
PP
1430PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1431 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1432
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1433JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1434
77bb000f
PP
1435PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1436
a29e5231
PP
1437PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1438
ec5a0394 1439PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1440
55c75993
PP
1441PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1442
453a6645 1443PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1444 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1445 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1446 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1447
8544e77a
PP
1448PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1449 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1450 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1451 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1452 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1453
83e029d5
PP
1454PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1455
ed7f7860
PP
1456PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1457
7d9f747b
PP
1458PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1459
4b2241d2
PP
1460PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1461
10385c15
PP
1462PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1463
dbc4b90d
PP
1464PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1465
532be449
PP
1466PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1467
6a8de854 1468PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1469 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1470 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1471
5dc43717
JJ
1472JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1473
1474JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1475 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1476
3346ab01
PP
1477PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1478 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1479
491fab4c
PP
1480PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1481 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1482 Notification from John Horne.
1483
13eb9497
PP
1484PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1485 compatible.
1486
1487PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1488 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1489 it normally works.
1490
7f36d675
DW
1491DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1492 access.
1493
c1d94452
DW
1494DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1495 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1496 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1497
e2f5dc15
DW
1498DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1499 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1500 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1501 configuration file.
1502
cd25e41d
DW
1503DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1504 option (effectively making it always true).
1505
261dc43e
DW
1506DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1507 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1508
fa32850b
DW
1509DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1510 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1511
79d4bc3d
PP
1512PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1513 run-time user, instead of root.
1514
43236f35 1515PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1516 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1517
fb08281f
DW
1518DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1519 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1520 arguments.
3346ab01 1521
74935b98
DW
1522DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1523 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1524 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1525
90b6341f
DW
1526DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1527
57730b52
ML
1528NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1529
66581d1e 1530
465e92cf
JJ
1531Exim version 4.72
1532-----------------
1533
453a6645
PP
1534JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1535 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1536 typos
465e92cf 1537
453a6645
PP
1538JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1539 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1540 (Finput)
edae0343 1541
9bd3e22c
NM
1542NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1543 Patch from Alain Williams
1544
bb576ff7
NM
1545NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1546
5a1a5845
NM
1547NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1548 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1549
981a9fad
NM
1550NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1551 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1552
7fc497ee
NM
1553NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1554
1a41defa
JJ
1555JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1556
a466095c 1557NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1558 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1559
94a6bd0b
NM
1560TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1561
1562TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1563
1564MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1565 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1566 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1567
c1b141a8
NM
1568NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1569 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1570
b26eacf1 1571NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1572 Patch by Simon Arlott
1573
179c5980 1574PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1575 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1576
9bd3e22c 1577
7c6d71af
NM
1578Exim version 4.71
1579-----------------
1580
7d9f747b 1581TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1582
f013fb92
NM
1583NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1584
0eb8eedd
NM
1585NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1586
663ee6d9
NM
1587NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1588
177ebd9b
NM
1589NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1590
7c6d71af 1591
210f147e
NM
1592Exim version 4.70
1593-----------------
1594
cdd3bb85 1595TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1596 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1597
1598TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1599 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1600 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1601
1602TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1603 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1604 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1605
1606TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1607 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1608
210f147e
NM
1609NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1610 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1611 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1612 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1613
deafd5b3
NM
1614NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1615 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1616 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1617
089793a4
TF
1618TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1619
5f16ca82
TF
1620TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1621
dae9d94e 1622NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1623 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1624
7d9f747b 1625NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1626
06864c44
TF
1627TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1628 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1629 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1630 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1631
65a7d8c3 1632NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1633 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1634
23510047 1635TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1636
7d9f747b 1637NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1638
7d8eec3a 1639NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1640 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1641
89dec7b6
TF
1642TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1643 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1644
a99de90c
TF
1645TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1646 that they are available at delivery time.
1647
e2803e40
TF
1648TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1649
7199e1ee
TF
1650TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1651 incoming_port log selectors.
1652
e276e04b
TF
1653TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1654 setting expands to an empty string.
1655
ce552449 1656NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1657 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1658
e765a0f1 1659NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1660 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1661
4f054c63 1662NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1663 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1664
7d9f747b
PP
1665NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1666 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1667
7d9f747b
PP
1668NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1669 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1670
b52bc06e 1671NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1672 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1673
447de4b0
NM
1674NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1675
4c69d561 1676NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1677 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1678
d5c39246 1679NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1680 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1681
0b23848a
TK
1682TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1683
8f3414a1 1684NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1685 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1686
fb6f955d
NM
1687NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1688
1689NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1690
7d9f747b
PP
1691NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1692 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1693
7d9f747b
PP
1694NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1695 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1696
7d9f747b
PP
1697NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1698 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1699
7d9f747b
PP
1700NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1701 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1702
7d9f747b
PP
1703NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1704 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1705
7d9f747b
PP
1706NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1707 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1708
7d9f747b
PP
1709NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1710 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1711
7d9f747b 1712NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1713 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1714
7d9f747b 1715NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1716
7d9f747b
PP
1717NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1718 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1719
7d9f747b 1720NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1721
7d9f747b 1722NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1723
7d9f747b 1724NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1725
7d9f747b 1726NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1727
17792b53 1728NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1729 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1730
7d9f747b
PP
1731NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1732 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1733
91576cec 1734NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1735 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1736
7d9f747b
PP
1737NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1738 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1739
7d9f747b 1740NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1741
7d9f747b 1742NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1743
7d9f747b 1744NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1745
7d9f747b 1746NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1747
deafd5b3 1748
47db1125
NM
1749Exim version 4.69
1750-----------------
1751
4b3504d0
TK
1752TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1753 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1754 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1755
1756 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1757 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1758 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1759 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1760 build errors in sieve.c.
1761
81ea09ca
NM
1762NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1763 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1764 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1765
f13cddcb
SC
1766SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1767
7d9f747b 1768NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1769
7d9f747b 1770NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1771
7d9f747b 1772NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1773
1774
eb4c0de6
PH
1775Exim version 4.68
1776-----------------
1777
1778PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1779
6a3bceb1
PH
1780PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1781 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1782 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1783 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1784 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1785 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1786 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1787 for iplsearch lookups.
1788
1789 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1790 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1791 previously such lookups could never work.
1792
1793 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1794 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1795 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1796
2e30fa9d
TK
1797TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1798 version.
1799
0806a9c5
MH
1800MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1801 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1802 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1803 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1804 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1805 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1806
ae276964
TK
1807TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1808 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1809
0f2cbd1b
MH
1810MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1811 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1812 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1813 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1814 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1815 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1816
2b85bce7
PH
1817PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1818 local_scan API.
1819
93655c46
PH
1820PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1821
6c512171
PH
1822PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1823 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1824 encrypted.
1825
1826PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1827 by clients under certain conditions.
1828
aa6dc513
PH
1829PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1830 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1831
a96603a0
PH
1832PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1833
8f240103
PH
1834PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1835 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1836
1837PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1838
d677b2f2
PH
1839PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1840
d52120f2
PH
1841PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1842
64f2600a
PH
1843PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1844 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1845
8669f003
PH
1846PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1847
a4dc33a8
PH
1848PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1849 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1850
d6a60c0f
PH
1851PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1852
8f128379
PH
1853PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1854
8932dffe
PH
1855PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1856 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1857 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1858 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1859
ddea74fa 1860PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1861 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1862 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1863
ddea74fa 1864PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1865 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1866
ddea74fa
PH
1867PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1868
ce9f225c
PH
1869PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1870
19897d52
PH
1871PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1872
bc64a74d
PH
1873PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1874 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1875 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1876
eb4c0de6 1877
b4ed4da0
PH
1878Exim version 4.67
1879-----------------
1880
22ad45c9
MH
1881MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1882 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1883 Jan Srzednicki.
1884
b4ed4da0
PH
1885PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1886 issue a MAIL command.
1887
431b7361
PH
1888PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1889
1890 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1891
1892 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1893 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1894 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1895 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1896 item. This has been fixed.
1897
1898PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1899 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1900
83da1223
PH
1901PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1902 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1903
54fc8428
PH
1904PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1905 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1906 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1907
34c5e8dd
SC
1908SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1909
bbe15da8
PH
1910PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1911 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1912 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1913 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1914 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1915
0e8a9471
MH
1916MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1917 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1918 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1919
f0872424
PH
1920PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1921 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1922 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1923 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1924
b01dd148
PH
1925PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1926
6bf342e1
PH
1927PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1928
273f34d0
PH
1929PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1930 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1931 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1932 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1933 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1934
cf8b11a5
PH
1935PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1936
41c7c167
PH
1937PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1938 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1939 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1940 values).
1941
9c57cbc0
PH
1942PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1943
f3f065bb
PH
1944PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1945
047bdd8c
PH
1946PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1947
0ce9abe6
PH
1948PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1949
0e22dfd1
PH
1950PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1951
4c590bd1
PH
1952PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1953 no_callout_flush is set.
1954
09945f1e
PH
1955PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1956 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1957 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1958 fixed.
1959
c51b8e75
PH
1960PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1961
e28326d8
PH
1962PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1963 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1964 other ACL rejections are.
1965
75b1493f
PH
1966PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1967 with slight modification.
1968
7c5214ec
PH
1969PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1970 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1971
4311097e
PH
1972PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1973 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1974 connection.
1975
29f89cad
PH
1976PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1977 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1978
5e687460
SC
1979SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1980
c3611384
PH
1981PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1982 expansion side effects.
1983
5a11a7b4
PH
1984PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1985 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1986 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1987 be the same.
1988
0e20aff9
MH
1989MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1990 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1991 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1992
ca86f471
PH
1993PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1994 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1995 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1996 were accidentally chopped off.
1997
a14e5636
PH
1998PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1999 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2000 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2001 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2002 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2003 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2004 pipelining has not been advertised.
2005
ec95d1a6
PH
2006PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2007
42855d71
PH
2008PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2009 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2010 This has been fixed.
2011
57c2c631
PH
2012PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2013 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2014 reported on Solaris.
2015
58c01c94
PH
2016PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2017 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2018 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2019 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2020 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2021 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2022 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2023
dee5a20a
PH
2024PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2025 cpus.
2026
d2ee6114
PH
2027PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2028
b2d5182b
PH
2029PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2030
79749a79
PH
2031PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2032 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2033 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2034 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2035 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2036 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2037
c456d9bb
PH
2038PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2039 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2040 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2041 host_all_ignored option.
2042
cd9868ec
PH
2043PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2044 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2045 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2046 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2047 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2048 is what is supposed to happen).
2049
ebeaf996
PH
2050PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2051 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2052 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2053 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2054 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2055 uses the Exim user.
2056
2679d413
PH
2057PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2058 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2059 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2060 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2061 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2062 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2063 users.
2064
84024b72
PH
2065PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2066
8005d38e
SC
2067SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2068 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2069 (Jez Hancock).
2070 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2071 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2072
3298c6c6
SC
2073SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2074
a43a27c5
PH
2075PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2076
58eb016e 2077PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2078 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2079 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2080 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2081 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2082 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2083 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2084 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2085 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2086 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2087 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2088
b43a74ea
PH
2089PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2090 advertised in response to EHLO.
2091
b4ed4da0 2092
5dd1517f
PH
2093Exim version 4.66
2094-----------------
2095
2096PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2097 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2098
2099 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2100 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2101
2102 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2103 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2104 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2105
2106 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2107 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2108 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2109 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2110 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2111
2112
93cfa765
TK
2113Exim version 4.65
2114-----------------
2115
2116TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2117 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2118 versions. (#438)
2119
d6066548
MH
2120MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2121 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2122 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2123
4362ff0d
PH
2124PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2125 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2126 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2127 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2128 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2129 rather than extend the field.
2130
93cfa765 2131
944e9e9c
TF
2132Exim version 4.64
2133-----------------
aa41d2de 2134
21d74bd9
TK
2135TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2136 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2137 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2138 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2139 these files.
2140
2141TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2142 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2143 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2144
2145TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2146 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2147 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2148
2149TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2150 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2151 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2152 in the field name.
2153
2b1c6e3a
PH
2154PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2155 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2156 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2157 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2158 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2159 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2160 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2161 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2162 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2163 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2164 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2165
1f872c80
PH
2166PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2167 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2168
2169PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2170 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2171 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2172 ignores EPIPE as well.
2173
d203e649
PH
2174PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2175 (quoted-printable decoding).
2176
cc2ed8f7 2177PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2178 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2179
ddfcd446
PH
2180PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2181
d45b1de8
PH
2182PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2183
2184PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2185
38a0a95f 2186PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2187 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2188
a2405d83
JJ
2189JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2190 in 4.64-PH/09.
2191
2192JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2193 miscellaneous code fixes
2194
6ea85e9a
PH
2195PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2196 rejections.
2197
26da7e20
PH
2198PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2199 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2200 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2201 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2202 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2203 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2204 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2205 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2206
14aa5a05 2207PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2208 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2209 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2210 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2211 function.
2212 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2213 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2214 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2215 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2216 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2217 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2218 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2219 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2220 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2221
ff75a1f7
PH
2222PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2223 decoding.
2224
e6f6568e
PH
2225PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2226 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2227 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2228 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2229 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2230 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2231 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2232 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2233
d6f6e0dc
PH
2234PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2235 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2236 list.
2237
322050c2
PH
2238PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2239 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2240 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2241 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2242 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2243 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2244 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2245 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2246 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2247 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2248 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2249 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2250 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2251
08955dd3
PH
2252PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2253 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2254 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2255 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2256 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2257 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2258 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2259
1eccaa59
PH
2260PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2261 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2262 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2263 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2264 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2265 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2266 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2267 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2268 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2269 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2270
602e59e5
PH
2271PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2272 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2273 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2274 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2275 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2276
411ef850
PH
2277PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2278 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2279 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2280 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2281 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2282 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2283 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2284
7befa435
PH
2285PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2286 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2287 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2288 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2289 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2290 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2291 been verified.
2292
48da4259 2293PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2294 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2295 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2296 and authorization.)
2297
48da4259
PH
2298PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2299 if any retry times were supplied.
2300
d1d5595c
PH
2301PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2302 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2303 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2304
0ef732d9
PH
2305PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2306
328895cc
PH
2307PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2308
fd700877
PH
2309PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2310 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2311 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2312 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2313 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2314 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2315
8dce1a6f
PH
2316PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2317 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2318
17af4a17
PH
2319PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2320 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2321 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2322
2323PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2324 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2325 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2326 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2327 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2328 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2329 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2330 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2331 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2332
2333 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2334 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2335 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2336 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2337 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2338 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2339 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2340 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2341 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2342
2343 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2344 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2345 hammering the server.
2346
c1114884
PH
2347PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2348 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2349
7a0743eb
PH
2350PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2351
0d85fa3f
PH
2352PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2353 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2354 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2355
1bf43b78
PH
2356PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2357 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2358 one case where this was not true.
2359
520de300
PH
2360PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2361 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2362 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2363 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2364 fails.
2365
48c7f9e2
PH
2366PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2367 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2368 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2369 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2370 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2371 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2372 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2373 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2374 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2375 smtp transport.
2376
99ea1c86
PH
2377PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2378 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2379 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2380 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2381
a2042e78
PH
2382PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2383 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2384
4fbcfc2e
PH
2385PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2386 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2387 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2388
aa41d2de
PH
2389PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2390
af561417
PH
2391PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2392
3cc66b45
PH
2393PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2394
194cc0e4
PH
2395PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2396 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2397 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2398 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2399
a401ddaa
PH
2400PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2401 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2402
4e88a19f
PH
2403PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2404 be meaningful with "accept".
2405
d7d7b289
SC
2406SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2407 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2408
2409SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2410 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2411 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2412
2413SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2414 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2415 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2416 there is data to show.
2417 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2418
2419SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2420 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2421 as well as the number of messages.
2422
2423SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2424 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2425 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2426
2427SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2428 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2429 have a flag are now skipped.
2430
2431SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2432 Added the -emptyok flag.
2433
2434SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2435 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2436
0ea2a468
JJ
2437JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2438 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2439 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2440
2441JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2442 match 4.64-PH/13
2443
2444JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2445 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2446
2447JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2448
2449JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2450 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2451
8a10f5a4
PH
2452PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2453
30e18802
PH
2454PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2455 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2456 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2457 contravention of the specifications.
2458
55728a4f
PH
2459PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2460 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2461 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2462
d7837193
PH
2463PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2464 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2465 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2466
87054a31
PH
2467PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2468
ea2c01d2
MH
2469MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2470 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2471 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2472 some point in the past.
2473
e4fa6968
PH
2474PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2475 transport during callout processing was broken.
2476
56f5d9bd
PH
2477PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2478 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2479
922e1c28
PH
2480PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2481 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2482
21eb6e72
PH
2483PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2484 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2485
a0540757
PH
2486PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2487
944e9e9c 2488
478be7b0
SC
2489Exim version 4.63
2490-----------------
2491
2492SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2493 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2494
2495SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2496 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2497 there is data to show.
2498 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2499
2500SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2501 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2502
2b965a65
TF
2503TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2504 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2505
45b91596
PH
2506TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2507 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2508
c59f5781
TF
2509TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2510 submissions from trusted users.
2511
90fc3069
TF
2512TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2513 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2514
6083aca0
TF
2515TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2516 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2517 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2518 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2519 there is now a framework to start from.
2520
765b530f
PH
2521PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2522 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2523 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2524
4e167a8c
PH
2525PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2526
4608d683
PH
2527PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2528
b8dc3e4a
PH
2529PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2530
5418e93b
PH
2531PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2532 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2533 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2534
b4a9bda2
PH
2535PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2536 libradius.
2537
45b91596
PH
2538PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2539 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2540 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2541
5547e2c5
PH
2542PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2543 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2544 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2545 its arguments.
2546
dbcef0ea
PH
2547PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2548 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2549 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2550 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2551 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2552
25257489
PH
2553PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2554 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2555
c816d124
PH
2556PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2557
a9ccd69a
PH
2558PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2559 operations in malware.c.
2560
75fa1910
PH
2561PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2562 signatures.
2563
a7d7aa58
PH
2564PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2565 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2566 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2567 all.
2568
42119b09
PH
2569PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2570 statements to "add_header".
2571
41609df5
PH
2572PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2573 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2574
a5bd321b
PH
2575PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2576 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2577 latter.
2578
e85a7ad5 2579PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2580 so that it is now:
2581
e85a7ad5
PH
2582 ${if or { \
2583 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2584 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2585 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2586 }{no}{yes}}
2587
e85a7ad5
PH
2588 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2589 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2590
d8fe1c03
PH
2591PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2592 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2593
16282d2b
PH
2594PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2595 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2596 any possible encoding problems.
2597
35d40a98
PH
2598PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2599 but not after initializing Perl.
2600
034d99ab
PH
2601PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2602 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2603 apparently, which is not desirable.
2604
6ec97b1b
PH
2605PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2606 queries.
2607
e22ca4ac
JJ
2608JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2609 --not options
2610
2611JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2612
33d73e3b
PH
2613PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2614 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2615 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2616 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2617
9ecb03f3
PH
2618PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2619 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2620 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2621
084efe8d
PH
2622PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2623 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2624 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2625 0.12.
2626
366fc9f0
PH
2627PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2628 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2629 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2630 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2631 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2632
c59f5781 2633
c887c79e
TF
2634Exim version 4.62
2635-----------------
2636
2637TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2638 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2639
1cce3af8
PH
2640PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2641 patch).
2642
afb3eaaf
PH
2643PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2644 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2645 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2646 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2647 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2648 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2649 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2650 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2651 451 error is used.
2652
e173618b
PH
2653PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2654
dd16e114
PH
2655PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2656 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2657 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2658
f7fd3850
PH
2659PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2660 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2661 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2662 odd errors.
2663
d87df92c
PH
2664PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2665 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2666
7e9f683d
PH
2667PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2668 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2669 option (which defaults to 0600).
2670
bfad5236
PH
2671PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2672
01c490df
PH
2673PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2674 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2675 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2676 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2677 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2678 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2679 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2680
d6629cdc
PH
2681PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2682
1cce3af8 2683
214e2000
PH
2684Exim version 4.61
2685-----------------
2686
2687PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2688 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2689 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2690 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2691 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2692 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2693 addresses as local.
2694
f9daeae0
PH
2695PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2696 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2697
7e66e54d
PH
2698PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2699
c8ea1597
PH
2700PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2701 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2702 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2703 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2704 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2705 grumble.
2706
911f6fde
PH
2707PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2708 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2709
47ca6d6c
PH
2710PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2711 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2712 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2713 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2714 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2715
ed0e9820
PH
2716PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2717 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2718 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2719 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2720
eff37e47
PH
2721PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2722 be the same on different OS.
2723
1921d2ea
PH
2724PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2725 testing.
2726
b3f69ca8
JJ
2727JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2728 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2729
2730JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2731 in 4.61-PH/06
2732
424a1c63
PH
2733PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2734 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2735 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2736 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2737 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2738 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2739 bounce message.
2740
7a100415
PH
2741PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2742 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2743 when Exim was called.
2744
19b9dc85
PH
2745PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2746 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2747
309bd837
PH
2748PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2749 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2750 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2751 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2752
59e82a2a
PH
2753PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2754 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2755 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2756 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2757 changes:
2758
2759 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2760 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2761 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2762
2763 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2764 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2765 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2766
9edc04ce
PH
2767PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2768 feature).
2769
1349e1e5
PH
2770PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2771 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2772 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2773 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2774 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2775 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2776 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2777 values from the SRV records were lost.
2778
ea49d0e1
PH
2779PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2780 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2781 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2782
064a94c9
PH
2783PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2784 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2785 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2786
727071f8
PH
2787PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2788 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2789 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2790 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2791 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2792 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2793 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2794 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2795 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2796 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2797
f78eb7c6
PH
2798PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2799 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2800 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2801
21c28500
PH
2802PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2803 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2804
2805PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2806 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2807 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2808 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2809 is given.
2810
1688f43b
PH
2811PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2812 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2813 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2814
2815PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2816 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2817 PH/23 above applies.
2818
9675b384
PH
2819PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2820 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2821 (for which there is an explicit test).
2822
6a3f1455
PH
2823PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2824
dac79d3e
PH
2825PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2826 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2827 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2828 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2829 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2830
5977a0b3
PH
2831PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2832 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2833 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2834 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2835
c91535f3
PH
2836PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2837 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2838 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2839
0d46a8c8
PH
2840PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2841
278c6e6c
PH
2842PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2843
2cbb4081
PH
2844PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2845 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2846 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2847
3eef829e
PH
2848PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2849 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2850 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2851 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2852 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2853
1ab95fa6
PH
2854PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2855 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2856 the message gets confusing).
2857
230205fc
PH
2858PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2859 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2860 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2861 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2862
75e0e026
PH
2863PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2864 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2865 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2866 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2867 same order.
2868
2869PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2870 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2871 the different processes.
2872
145396a6
PH
2873PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2874
3cd34f13
PH
2875PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2876
11121d3d
JJ
2877JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2878 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2879
2880JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2881 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2882
2883JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2884 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2885 messages matching specified criteria.
2886
8def5aaf
PH
2887PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2888
929ba01c
PH
2889PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2890 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2891
2632889e
PH
2892PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2893 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2894 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2895 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2896 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2897 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2898 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2899 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2900 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2901 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2902
944a9c55
PH
2903PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2904 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2905 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2906
4a23603b
PH
2907PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2908
4730f942
PH
2909PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2910 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2911 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2912 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2913 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2914 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2915 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2916 the variable.
2917
30dba1e6
PH
2918PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2919 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2920
382afc6b
PH
2921PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2922
a86229cf
PH
2923PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2924
50c99ba6
PH
2925PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2926
d35e429d
PH
2927PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2928 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2929 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2930 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2931 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2932 size of the count of files.
2933
f90d018c
PH
2934PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2935
75def545
PH
2936PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2937 used in LMTP mode:
2938
2939 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2940 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2941 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2942 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2943
2944 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2945 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2946 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2947
2948PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2949 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2950 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2951 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2952 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2953
c46782ef
PH
2954PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2955 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2956
71fafd95
PH
2957PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2958 will now be deprecated.
2959
2c5db4fd
PH
2960PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2961
9cf6b11a
JJ
2962JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2963 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2964 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2965
2966JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2967 with very large, slow to parse queues
2968
2969JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2970
2971JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2972
898d150f
PH
2973PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2974 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2975 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2976 SMTP output lines.
2977
46218253
PH
2978PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2979 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2980 Sieve code now uses this.
2981
e97957bc
PH
2982PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2983 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2984
81e509d7
PH
2985PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2986 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2987
3d240ff7
PH
2988PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2989
b37c4101
PH
2990PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2991 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2992 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2993 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2994 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2995
79378e0f
PH
2996PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2997 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2998 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2999 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3000
e49c7bb4
PH
3001PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3002
d114ec46
PH
3003PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3004
f3d7df6c
PH
3005PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3006 is preferred over IPv4.
3007
715ab376
PH
3008PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3009 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3010 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3011 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3012 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3013 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3014 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3015
6b31b150
PH
3016PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3017 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3018 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3019
3020PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3021
d515a917
PH
3022PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3023 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3024 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3025 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3026 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3027 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3028 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3029 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3030 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3031 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3032 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3033
9b8fadde
PH
3034PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3035 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3036 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3037
214e2000 3038
5de37277
PH
3039Exim version 4.60
3040-----------------
3041
cc38ddbf
PH
3042PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3043
3044 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3045 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3046
3047 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3048 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3049 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3050
72fdd6ae
PH
3051PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3052
3053 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3054 not a single digit.
3055
3056 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3057 string.
3058
3059 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3060 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3061 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3062 silly things.
3063
3064 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3065 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3066
3067 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3068 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3069
cb741023
PH
3070PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3071 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3072 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3073
f174f16e
PH
3074PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3075 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3076
c25242d7
PH
3077PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3078 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3079
3080 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3081
3082 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3083 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3084 this:
3085
3086 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3087
82c19f95
PH
3088PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3089 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3090 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3091 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3092 identical. For example:
3093
3094 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3095
3096 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3097 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3098 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3099
d7ffbc12
PH
3100PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3101 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3102 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3103 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3104
9f526266
PH
3105PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3106 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3107 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3108 message.
3109
87fcc8b9
PH
3110PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3111
3112 o fixes some comments
3113 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3114 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3115 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3116 and documents the missing references header update
3117
3118 and most important:
3119
3120 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3121 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3122 result)
3123
456682f5
PH
3124PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3125 Electronic Mail") by including:
3126
3127 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3128
3129 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3130 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3131 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3132 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3133 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3134
3135 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3136
3137 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3138
3139 The auto-replied keyword:
3140
3141 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3142 message by an automatic process,
3143
3144 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3145
3146 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3147 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3148
3149 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3150 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3151 other messages.
3152
3e46c1aa
PH
3153PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3154 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3155
49826d12
PH
3156PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3157
eba0c039
PH
3158PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3159 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3160 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3161
a0d6ba8a
PH
3162PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3163 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3164 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3165
f0917727
PH
3166PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3167 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3168 and treats the condition as false.
3169
096fee00
PH
3170PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3171
024bd3c2
PH
3172PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3173 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3174 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3175 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3176 not changing the active code.
3177
3178 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3179 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3180
3181 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3182 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3183
df199fec
PH
3184PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3185 (Bugzilla #53).
3186
d27f1df3
PH
3187PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3188 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3189 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3190 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3191 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3192 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3193 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3194 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3195 the text comparison.
3196
96776534
PH
3197PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3198 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3199 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3200 The same fix has been applied.
3201
5de37277 3202
9a799bc0
PH
3203Exim version 4.54
3204-----------------
3205
3206PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3207 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3208 It now does.
3209
99a4b039
PH
3210PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3211 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3212
3213PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3214
4b233853
PH
3215PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3216 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3217 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3218 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3219 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3220
8857ccfd
PH
3221TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3222 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3223 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3224 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3225 or /domain=).
3226
433a2980
PH
3227PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3228 testing suite.
3229
3e46c1aa 3230
9a799bc0 3231
e3a311ba
TK
3232Exim version 4.53
3233-----------------
3234
3235TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3236 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3237
13b685f9
PH
3238PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3239
395ff96d
PH
3240PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3241
5b68f6e4
PH
3242PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3243 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3244 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3245
1ab52c69
PH
3246PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3247 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3248 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3249
b07e6aa3
PH
3250PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3251 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3252 operating systems.
3253
254e032f
PH
3254PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3255 ${stat: expansion item.
3256
3af76a81
PH
3257PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3258 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3259
2548ba04
PH
3260PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3261 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3262 file for comments.
3263
b6c6011d
PH
3264PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3265
cf39cf57
PH
3266PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3267 setting.
3268
f1513293
PH
3269PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3270 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3271
727549a4
PH
3272TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3273
af46795e
PH
3274PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3275 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3276 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3277 the end of the subprocess.
3278
d7b47fd0
PH
3279PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3280 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3281 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3282 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3283 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3284
ee744174
JJ
3285JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3286
b582ab87
PH
3287TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3288
41a13e0a
PH
3289PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3290 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3291
f625cc5a
PH
3292PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3293
3294PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3295
21f7af35
PH
3296PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3297 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3298 HP-UX compiler.
3299
31480e42
PH
3300PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3301
2d280592
PH
3302PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3303 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3304 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3305
7cd1141b
PH
3306PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3307 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3308
3309PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3310 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3311
750af86e
PH
3312PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3313 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3314
3315 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3316 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3317
3318 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3319 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3320 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3321 contributed by a Radius user.
3322
3323PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3324 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3325
4304270b
TK
3326TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3327 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3328
750af86e
PH
3329PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3330 available.
3331
64ffc24f
PH
3332PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3333 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3334 received.
3335
5dd9625b
PH
3336PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3337 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3338 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3339 header lines when this was not necessary.
3340
5591031b
PH
3341PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3342
ba18e66a
PH
3343PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3344 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3345 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3346 exists".
3347
9cec981f
PH
3348PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3349 -bV or -d is used.
3350
aa2b5c79
PH
3351PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3352 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3353 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3354 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3355
48a53b7f
PH
3356PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3357
1c59d63b
PH
3358PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3359
671012da
TK
3360TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3361
1509d3a8
PH
3362PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3363
3364PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3365 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3366 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3367 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3368 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3369 settings.
3370
3371PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3372
2fe1a124
PH
3373PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3374 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3375 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3376 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3377 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3378 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3379 which is clearly wrong.
3380
8800895a
PH
3381PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3382
ccfdb010
PH
3383PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3384 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3385 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3386 subsequently added.
3387
1130bfb0
PH
3388PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3389 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3390
ebcb507f
PH
3391PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3392
c35e155c
PH
3393PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3394 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3395
95d1f782
PH
3396PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3397 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3398
fd6de02e
PH
3399PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3400 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3401
58de37c5
PH
3402PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3403 recipients, not senders.
3404
261cf466
TF
3405TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3406 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3407
3ee512ff
PH
3408PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3409
e08c430f
PH
3410PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3411
bef5a11f
PH
3412PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3413 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3414 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3415 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3416
7546de58
TF
3417TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3418
e5d5a95f
TF
3419TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3420 clock is set back in time.
3421
2e88a017
TF
3422TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3423 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3424
a5f65aa4
TF
3425TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3426 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3427
e7726cbf
PH
3428PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3429 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3430 (see PH/47 above).
3431
a7fdad5b
TF
3432TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3433 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3434 header rewrites.
3435
6af56900
PH
3436PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3437 type ("H").
3438
0925ede6
PH
3439PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3440
66afa403
TF
3441TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3442 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3443 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3444
0154e85a
TF
3445TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3446 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3447 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3448 helo verification defer as a failure.
3449
16f12c76
PH
3450PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3451 actual error message.
3452
bbe902f0 3453
e5a9dba6
PH
3454Exim version 4.52
3455-----------------
3456
3457TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3458
22c3b60b
PH
3459PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3460 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3461 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3462 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3463
06a9b4b5
PH
3464TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3465
c1ac6996
PH
3466PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3467 can still be requested.
3468
9c7a242c
PH
3469PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3470 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3471 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3472 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3473
87ba3f5f
PH
3474TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3475 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3476 circumstances, but probably never did.
3477
3478PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3479 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3480 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3481 in the header line.
3482
29aba418
TF
3483TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3484
fe0dab11
TF
3485TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3486 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3487
11d337a4
TK
3488TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3489
3490TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3491
415c8f3b
PH
3492PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3493 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3494 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3495 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3496 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3497 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3498
958541e9
PH
3499PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3500 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3501 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3502 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3503 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3504 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3505
c206415f
TK
3506TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3507 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3508
2a4be8f9
PH
3509PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3510 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3511
1cba11c5
SC
3512SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3513 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3514
3515SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3516
3517SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3518
3519SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3520
3521SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3522
3523SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3524
3525SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3526
1005d00e
TK
3527TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3528
3529TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3530 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3531 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3532
3533TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3534 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3535 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3536 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3537
9b4768fa
PH
3538PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3539 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3540 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3541
3542PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3543 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3544 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3545 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3546
0d7eb84a
PH
3547PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3548 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3549 to be made).
3550
3551PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3552 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3553 should work with maildirs and everything.
3554
40727bee
TK
3555TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3556 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3557
554d2369
TF
3558TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3559 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3560
1f922db1
PH
3561PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3562 function for BDB 4.3.
3563
ef213c3b
PH
3564PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3565
8ac170f3
PH
3566PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3567 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3568 involved.
3569
b1c749bb
PH
3570PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3571 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3572 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3573 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3574 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3575 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3576
4aac9b49
PH
3577PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3578 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3579 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3580 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3581 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3582 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3583 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3584 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3585
294520c8
TK
3586TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3587 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3588 details.
3589
5bd022fe
PH
3590PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3591 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3592
90e9ce59
PH
3593PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3594 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3595 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3596 test. It is now used for both.
3597
5ea81592
PH
3598PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3599 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3600 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3601 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3602 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3603 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3604
c6c2dc1d
PH
3605PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3606 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3607 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3608 string_vformat().
3609
fffffe4c
PH
3610PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3611 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3612 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3613
9a26b6b2
PH
3614PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3615 experimental DomainKeys support:
3616
3617 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3618 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3619 the control was given.
3620
3621 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3622
4aee0225
PH
3623PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3624
32d668a5
PH
3625PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3626
8187c3f3
PH
3627PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3628 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3629 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3630 db.h files).
3631
ff790e47 3632PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3633 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3634 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3635 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3636 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3637 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3638 course.
ff790e47 3639
5417f6d1
PH
3640PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3641 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3642 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3643 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3644 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3645 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3646
59cf8544
PH
3647PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3648 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3649 do -d+all out of habit.
3650
e7ad8a65
PH
3651PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3652 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3653 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3654
ade42478
PH
3655PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3656 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3657 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3658 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3659 record types that Exim uses.
3660
182ad5cf
PH
3661PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3662 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3663 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3664 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3665 non-existent file that was broken.
3666
b0d9fc80
TK
3667TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3668 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3669
3670TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3671 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3672 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3673
3674TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3675
47c7a64a
PH
3676PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3677 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3678 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3679 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3680 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3681 same time.
3682
a388bce4
SC
3683SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3684 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3685 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3686 at a slight CPU cost.
3687
3688SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3689 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3690
3691SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3692 by Marc Sherman.
3693
0793e4ed
SC
3694SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3695
c58b88df
PH
3696PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3697 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3698
e7ad8a65 3699
7982096b
PH
3700Exim version 4.51
3701-----------------
3702
1a46a8c5
PH
3703TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3704 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3705
2f079f46 3706TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3707
3708TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3709
3710PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3711 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3712
3713PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3714 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3715 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3716 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3717 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3718 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3719 file.
3720
3721PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3722 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3723 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3724 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3725 these two options.
3726
3727PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3728 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3729 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3730 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3731 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3732 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3733 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3734 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3735
3736PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3737 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3738
3739PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3740 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3741 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3742 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3743 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3744 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3745
3746PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3747 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3748 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3749 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3750
3751PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3752 Finch).
3753
3754PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3755 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3756
49c2d5ea
PH
3757PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3758 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3759 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3760 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3761 message.
49c2d5ea 3762
bf759a8b
PH
3763PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3764
83364d30
PH
3765PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3766 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3767
7999bbd7
PH
3768PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3769 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3770 to what was transported.)
3771
7dbf77c9
PH
3772TF/01 Added $received_time.
3773
74e0617f
PH
3774PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3775 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3776 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3777 spamd_address settings.
3778
2f079f46
PH
3779PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3780 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3781 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3782 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3783 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3784
8c841523
PH
3785PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3786
7766a4f0
PH
3787PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3788 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3789 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3790 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3791 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3792
8b417f2c
PH
3793PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3794 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3795
901f42cb
PH
3796PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3797 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3798 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3799 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3800 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3801 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3802 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3803 for failure.
3804
f9b9210e
PH
3805PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3806 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3807 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3808 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3809 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3810 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3811 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3812 "input=".
3813
54cdb463
PH
3814PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3815
cf00dad6
PH
3816PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3817 driver and ACL definitions.
3818
acb1b346
PH
3819PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3820 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3821
c5ddb310
PH
3822PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3823 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3824 understands it better than I do:
3825
3826 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3827 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3828
3829 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3830 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3831 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3832 => three warnings about OTP not working
3833 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3834
3835 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3836 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3837 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3838 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3839 for each call.)
3840 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3841 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3842
3843 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3844 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3845 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3846
31619da6
PH
3847PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3848 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3849 specified.
3850
bebaf0fc
PH
3851PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3852 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3853 "Linux".
3854
475fe28a
PH
3855PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3856 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3857 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3858
3859 warn !verify = sender
3860 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3861
3862 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3863 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3864
7e8bec7a
PH
3865PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3866
3867 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3868 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3869
3870 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3871 nomenclature these days.)
3872
e4a89c47
PH
3873PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3874 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3875
5ca2a9a1
PH
3876PH/30 In these circumstances:
3877 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3878 . First host does not offer TLS;
3879 . First host accepts first address;
3880 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3881 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3882 . Second host accepts second address.
3883 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3884 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3885 address.
7e8bec7a 3886
c688b954
PH
3887PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3888 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3889 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3890 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3891 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3892
fed77020
PH
3893PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3894 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3895
7fe1560f
PH
3896PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3897 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3898
ebb6e6d5
PH
3899PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3900 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3901 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3902
9c4e8f60
PH
3903PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3904 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3905 overlooked.
3906
3907PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3908
d7174846
PH
3909PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3910 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3911 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3912 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3913 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3914 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3915 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3916
3917 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3918 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3919 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3920 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3921 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3922
3923 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3924 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3925 routed further.
3926
cfe75fc3
PH
3927PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3928 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3929 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3930 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3931 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3932 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3933
be22d70e
PH
3934PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3935
0612b098
PH
3936PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3937 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3938 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3939 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3940 printable escape sequences.
3941
2e0c1448
PH
3942PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3943 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3944 body only.
3945
447d236c
PH
3946PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3947 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3948 are as follows:
3949
3950 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3951 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3952 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3953 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3954 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3955
3956 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3957 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3958 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3959
d20976dc
PH
3960PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3961
f656d135
PH
3962PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3963 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3964 play with."
3965
2e2a30b4
PH
3966PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3967 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3968 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3969 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3970 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3971 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3972 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3973 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3974 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3975 the log output.
3976
9176e9f0
PH
3977PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3978 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3979 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3980 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3981 "make".
3982
7982096b 3983
bbe902f0
PH
3984A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3985----------------------------------------
3986
3987Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3988changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3989needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3990in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3991that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3992release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3993from 4.43.
3994
3995I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
39964.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3997those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3998historical information.
3999
4000
f7b63901 4001Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4002-----------------
4003
5fe762f6
PH
4004 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4005
139059f6 4006 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4007 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4008
7086e875
PH
4009 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4010 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4011 place.
4012
35af9f61
PH
4013 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4014 filter fails to execute.
4015
b668c215
PH
4016 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4017 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4018 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4019 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4020 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4021
a494b1e1
PH
4022 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4023
4024 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4025 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4026 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4027 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4028
c5fcb476
PH
4029 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4030 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4031 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4032 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4033 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4034
69358f02
PH
4035 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4036
5be20824
PH
403710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4038
eb2c0248
PH
403911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4040 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4041 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4042 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4043
2a3eea10
PH
404412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4045 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4046 sender verification.
4047
404813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4049 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4050
23c7ff99
PH
405114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4052
4deaf07d
PH
405315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4054 connection timeout.
4055
926e1192
PH
405616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4057 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4058
650edc6f
PH
405917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4060 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4061
2c7db3f5
PH
406218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4063 information about exactly what failed.
4064
3d235903
PH
406519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4066
7c7ad977
PH
406720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4068 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4069 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4070
981756db
PH
407121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4072 It is now set to "smtps".
4073
d4eb88df
PH
407422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4075 ignore_target_hosts.
4076
407723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4078 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4079 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4080 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4081 "[x.x.x.x]".
4082
7d468ab8
PH
408324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4084 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4085 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4086
408725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4088 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4089 wake it up if nothing else does.
4090
62c0818f
PH
409126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4092 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4093 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4094 end up negative.
4095
26034054
PH
409627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4097 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4098
af66f652
PH
409928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4100
90af77f4
PH
410129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4102 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4103 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4104 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4105 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4106 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4107 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4108 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4109
d8ef3577
PH
411030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4111 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4112 than one IP address.
4113
5cb8cbc6
PH
411431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4115 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4116 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4117 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4118
14702f5b
PH
411932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4120 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4121 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4122 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4123 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4124 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4125
063b1e99
PH
412633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4127 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4128 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4129 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4130
652e1b65
PH
413134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4132 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4133 respected.
4134
6f0c9a4f
PH
413535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4136 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4137 $sender_host_address.
4138
33397d19
PH
413936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4140 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4141 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4142 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4143 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4144 very small.
4145
7bb56e1f
PH
414637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4147
4148 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4149 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4150
ea3bc19b
PH
4151 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4152 just the host names, not the priorities.
4153
4154 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4155 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4156 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4157
ea3bc19b 4158 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4159 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4160
0bcb2a0e
PH
416138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4162 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4163 domain.
4164
2ac0e484
PH
416539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4166
4e1fde53
PH
416740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4168 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4169
de365ded
PH
417041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4171 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4172 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4173
f05da2e8
PH
417442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4175
d6453af2
PH
417643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4177
f7b63901
PH
417844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4179
418045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4181 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4182 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4183 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4184 because the tests only now provoked it.
4185
a444213a
PH
418646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4187 (this can affect the format of dates).
4188
0ec020ea
PH
418947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4190 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4191 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4192 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4193
b1206957
PH
419448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4195
419649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4197 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4198 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4199 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4200
26dd5a95
PH
420150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4202 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4203 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4204
343b2385
PH
420551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4206 autoreply.
4207
1c5466b9
PH
420852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4209 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4210 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4211 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4212 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4213 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4214 is going on).
4215
55ee9ee3
PH
421653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4217 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4218 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4219 the line.
4220
d38f8232
PH
422154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4222 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4223 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4224
4225 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4226 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4227 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4228 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4229 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4230 so I produce this patch..."
4231
3295e65b
PH
4232 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4233 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4234 is not defined.
4235
7102e136
PH
423655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4237 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4238 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4239 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4240 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4241
3ca0ba97
PH
424256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4243
c2bcbe20
PH
424457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4245 long debug lines gets shown.
4246
18ce445d
PH
424758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4248 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4249
1f5b4c3d
PH
425059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4251
4252 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4253 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4254 of $primary_hostname.
4255
b975ba52
PH
425660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4257 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4258 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4259 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4260 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4261 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4262 by change 4.50/55 above.
4263
4264 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4265 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4266 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4267 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4268 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4269 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4270 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4271
427261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4273 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4274 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4275 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4276
17ffcae7
PH
427762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4278 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4279
d95f9fdb
PH
428063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4281 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4282 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4283 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4284 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4285
86b8287f
PH
428664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4287 This has been fixed.
4288
60dc5e56
PH
428965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4290 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4291 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4292 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4293 the caching.)
4294
533244af
PH
429566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4296
a5a28604
PH
429767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4298 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4299 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4300 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4301
7e634d24
PH
430268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4303 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4304
3e11c26b
PH
430569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4306 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4307 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4308
6729cf78
PH
430970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4310 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4311 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4312 message there.
4313
00f00ca5
PH
431471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4315 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4316 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4317
c9bdd01c
PH
431872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4319 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4320 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4321 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4322
d43194df
PH
432373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4324 during host lookups.
4325
fe5b5d0b
PH
432674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4327 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4328
4329 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4330
76a2d7ba
PH
433175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4332 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4333 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4334 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4335 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4336 background.
4337
433876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4339 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4340
04f7d5b9
PH
434177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4342 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4343 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4344
bc60667e
PH
434578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4346
bb6e88ff
PH
434779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4348 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4349 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4350 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4351 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4352 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4353 process earlier.
4354
1e70f85b
PH
435580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4356 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4357 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4358 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4359 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4360
436181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4362 tables).
4363
4e01f9d6
PH
436482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4365
1ee1cef2
PH
436683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4367 "vacation" handling.
4368
6e2b4ccc
PH
436984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4370 OS variants using glibc.
4371
8e669ac1
PH
437285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4373
495ae4b0 4374
bbe902f0
PH
4375----------------------------------------------------
4376See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4377----------------------------------------------------
4378
4379
4380Exim version 4.44
4381-----------------
4382
4383 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4384 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4385 transport
4386
4387 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4388 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4389 place.
4390
4391 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4392 filter fails to execute.
4393
4394 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4395 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4396 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4397 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4398 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4399
4400 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4401 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4402 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4403 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4404
4405 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4406 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4407 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4408 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4409 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4410
4411 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4412
4413 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4414 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4415 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4416 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4417
4418 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4419 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4420 sender verification.
4421
442210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4423 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4424
442511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4426 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4427
442812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4429 ignore_target_hosts.
4430
443113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4432 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4433 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4434 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4435 "[x.x.x.x]".
4436
443714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4438 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4439 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4440
444115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4442 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4443 wake it up if nothing else does.
4444
444516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4446 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4447 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4448 end up negative.
4449
445017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4451 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4452
ea3a6f44 445318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4454
445519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4456 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4457 empty pattern.
4458
445920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4460 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4461 one IP address.
4462
ea3a6f44
NM
446321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4464 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4465 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4466 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4467 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4468 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4469
ea3a6f44
NM
447022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4471 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4472 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4473
447423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4475 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4476 $sender_host_address.
4477
447824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4479
ea3a6f44
NM
448025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4481 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4482 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4483
448426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4485 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4486
ea3a6f44
NM
448727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4488 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4489
ea3a6f44
NM
449028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4491 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4492 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4493 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4494
449529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4496 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4497 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4498
ea3a6f44
NM
449930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4500 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4501 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4502 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4503
ea3a6f44
NM
450431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4505 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4506 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4507
ea3a6f44
NM
450831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4509 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4510
ea3a6f44
NM
451132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4512 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4513 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4514 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4515 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4516 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4517 is going on).
bbe902f0 4518
ea3a6f44
NM
451933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4520 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4521 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4522 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4523 CAN-2005-0021
4524
ea3a6f44
NM
452534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4526 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4527 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4528 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4529 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4530 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4531 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4532
4533 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4534 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4535 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4536 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4537 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4538 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4539 CAN-2005-0021
4540
ea3a6f44
NM
454135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4542 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4543 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4544 CAN-2005-0022
4545
ea3a6f44
NM
454636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4547 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4548 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4549 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4550 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4551
ea3a6f44
NM
455237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4553 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4554 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4555 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4556 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4557
ea3a6f44
NM
455838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4559 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4560 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4561 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4562 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4563
4564
495ae4b0
PH
4565Exim version 4.43
4566-----------------
4567
4568 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4569 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4570 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4571 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4572 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4573 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4574 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4575
4576 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4577 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4578 the delivery.
4579
4580 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4581
4582 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4583
4584 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4585 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4586 to local_scan().
4587
4588 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4589 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4590 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4591 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4592 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4593
4594 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4595 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4596
4597 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4598
4599 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4600
460110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4602 header_sender only.
4603
460411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4605 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4606
460712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4608 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4609 affecting debugging statements).
4610
461113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4612
461314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4614 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4615 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4616 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4617 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4618 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4619 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4620 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4621 after the received time, and all would be well.
4622
462315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4624 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4625 condition in an expansion string.
4626
462716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4628
462917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4630 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4631 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4632 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4633 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4634 job under whatever limits there are.
4635
463618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4637
463819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4639 space).
4640
464120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4642 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4643 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4644 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4645 return path is set.
4646
464721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4648 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4649 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4650 binary data in such strings.
4651
465222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4653
465423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4655 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4656 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4657 failure, which is pointless.
4658
465924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4660
466125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4662
466326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4664 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4665 Sender: header lines.
4666
466727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4668 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4669 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4670
467128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4672 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4673 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4674 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4675 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4676 happens.
4677
467829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4679 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4680 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4681 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4682 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4683
468430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4685 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4686 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4687 1024.
4688
468931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4690 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4691
469232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4693 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4694
469533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4696
469732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4698
469933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4700
470134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4702 syntax error.
4703
470435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4705
470636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4707
470837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4709 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4710 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4711 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4712
471338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4714 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4715
4716
4717Exim version 4.42
4718-----------------
4719
4720 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4721 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4722 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4723 it was not quoted.
4724 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4725 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4726 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4727 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4728 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4729 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4730
4731 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4732 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4733 verification failure".
4734
4735 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4736 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4737 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4738 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4739
4740 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4741 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4742 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4743 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4744 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4745 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4746 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4747 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4748 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4749 treated as a timeout.
4750
4751 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4752 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4753 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4754 not set for Exim filters).
4755
4756 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4757 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4758 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4759
4760 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4761
4762 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4763 try to make them clearer.
4764
4765 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4766 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4767
4768 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4769
4770 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4771
477210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4773 only the Cygwin environment.
4774
477511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4776 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4777 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4778 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4779 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4780
478112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4782 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4783 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4784 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4785 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4786 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4787 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4788
478913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4790 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4791
479214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4793
4794 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4795 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4796 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4797
4798 To: susanne@some.where
4799
4800 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4801 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4802 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4803 of addresses in From: header lines).
4804
4805 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4806 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4807 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4808
4809 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4810 treated as non-personal.
4811
4812 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4813 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4814
481515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4816
481716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4818
481917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4820 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4821 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4822
482318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4824 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4825
482619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4827 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4828 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4829 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4830 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4831 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4832
483320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4834 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4835 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4836 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4837 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4838 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4839 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4840 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4841
4842 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4843
484421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4845 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4846
484722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4848 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4849 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4850
485123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4852 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4853
485424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4855 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4856 rather than long int.
4857
485825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4859
486026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4861
4862
4863Exim version 4.41
4864-----------------
4865
4866 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4867 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4868 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4869 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4870 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4871 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4872
4873
4874Exim version 4.40
4875-----------------
4876
4877 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4878 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4879
4880 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4881 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4882 socklen_t is defined.
4883
4884 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4885 always exist.
4886
4887 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4888 configured.
4889
4890 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4891 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4892 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4893 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4894 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4895
4896 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4897 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4898 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4899 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4900
4901 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4902 of flapping under certain conditions.
4903
4904 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4905 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4906 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4907
4908 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4909
491010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4911
491211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4913 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4914 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4915 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4916
491712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4918 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4919 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4920 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4921 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4922 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4923 preserved with the message after it was received.
4924
492513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4926 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4927 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4928 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4929 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4930 test suite worked just fine.
4931
493214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4933 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4934 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4935
493615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4937 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4938 string.
4939
494016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4941 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4942 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4943 does not fully solve it.
4944
494517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4946 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4947 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4948 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4949 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4950
495118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4952 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4953 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4954
495519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4956 string, for example:
4957
4958 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4959
4960 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4961 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4962 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4963 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4964 the routers could not see them.
4965
496620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4967 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4968
496921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4970 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4971 output).
4972
497322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4974 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4975 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4976 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4977 that needed quoting.
4978
497923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4980 was not being matched caselessly.
4981
498224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4983 backslashes.
4984
498525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4986 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4987 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4988 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4989 when use_sender is false.
4990
499126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4992
499327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4994
499528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4996
499729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4998 the configuration file.
4999
500030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5001 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5002
500331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5004
500532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5006 bytes in the message body.
5007
500833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5009 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5010 delivery.
5011
501234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5013
501435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5015
501636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5017 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5018 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5019 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5020 another IP address.
5021
5022
5023Exim version 4.34
5024-----------------
5025
5026 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5027 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5028
5029 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5030 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5031 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5032 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5033 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5034
5035 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5036 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5037
5038 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5039 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5040 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5041
5042 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5043 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5044 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5045
5046 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5047 for routers.
5048
5049 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5050 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5051 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5052 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5053 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5054 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5055 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5056
5057
5058Exim version 4.33
5059-----------------
5060
5061 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5062 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5063 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5064 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5065 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5066 default (and expected) setting.
5067
5068 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5069 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5070 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5071 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5072
5073 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5074 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5075
5076 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5077 in domain lists.
5078
5079 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5080 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5081 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5082 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5083 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5084 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5085
5086 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5087 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5088 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5089
5090 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5091 part (NOT match_host).
5092
5093 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5094
5095 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5096 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5097 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5098 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5099 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5100 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5101 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5102 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5103 the same named file.
5104
510510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5106 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5107 when Exim is built.
5108
510911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5110 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5111 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5112 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5113 a host name.
5114
511512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5116 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5117 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5118
511913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5120
512114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5122
512315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5124
512516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5126 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5127
512817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5129 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5130 before starting the TLS session.
5131
513218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5133
513419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5135 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5136
513720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5138 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5139 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5140 colon in the middle).
5141
5142
5143Exim version 4.32
5144-----------------
5145
5146 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5147 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5148 multiple configurations are in use.
5149
5150 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5151 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5152 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5153 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5154 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5155 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5156
5157 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5158 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5159
5160 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5161 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5162 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5163
5164 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5165 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5166 occurs.
5167
5168 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5169 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5170
5171 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5172
5173 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5174 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5175
5176 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5177
5178 -prval:sval
5179
5180 is equivalent to
5181
5182 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5183
5184 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5185 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5186 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5187 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5188 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5189
519010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5191 Exim's behaviour:
5192
5193 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5194 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5195 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5196 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5197 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5198 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5199
5200 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5201 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5202 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5203 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5204 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5205 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5206 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5207 string.
5208
5209 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5210 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5211 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5212 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5213 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5214
521511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5216
521712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5218 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5219 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5220
522113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5222
522314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5224 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5225 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5226 information.
5227
522815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5229 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5230
523116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5232 Three changes have been made:
5233
5234 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5235 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5236 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5237 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5238 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5239
5240 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5241 been restored.
5242
5243 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5244 the modified behaviour.
5245
5246
5247Exim version 4.31
5248-----------------
5249
5250 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5251 Larry Rosenman.
5252
5253 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5254 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5255
5256 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5257 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5258 try to track down a specific problem.
5259
5260 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5261 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5262 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5263
5264 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5265 warning.
5266
5267 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5268 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5269 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5270 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5271 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5272 some earlier ones do not.
5273
5274 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5275
5276 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5277 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5278 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5279 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5280 address literals are enabled, of course).
5281
5282 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5283
528410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5285 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5286 by a command such as
5287
5288 exim -f "" ...
5289
5290 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5291
529211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5293
529412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5295 remained set. It is now erased.
5296
529713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5298 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5299
530014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5301 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5302 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5303 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5304 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5305 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5306 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5307 appropriate error code.
5308
530915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5310 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5311 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5312 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5313 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5314 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5315
531616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5317 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5318 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5319
532017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5321 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5322 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5323 terminate the header.
5324
532518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5326 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5327 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5328
532919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5330 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5331 (4.30/29). In particular:
5332
5333 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5334 imposed.
5335
5336 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5337 to write a maildirsize file.
5338
5339 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5340 the transport, the new value overrides.
5341
5342 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5343 count.
5344
534520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5346 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5347 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5348 space or a tab.
5349
535021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5351 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5352 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5353 the fallback hosts.
5354
535522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5356 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5357 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5358
535923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5360 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5361 using a union.
5362
536324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5364 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5365 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5366
536725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5368
536926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5370
537127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5372
537328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5374 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5375 become corrupted.
5376
537729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5378 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5379 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5380 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5381 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5382 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5383 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5384 too great.
5385
538630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5387 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5388 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5389 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5390 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5391 incorrectly.
5392
539331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5394 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5395 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5396 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5397 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5398 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5399 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5400 cached value only when the same options are set.
5401
540232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5403
540433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5405 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5406 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5407 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5408 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5409
541034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5411 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5412 it is clearly obsolete.
5413
541435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5415 transport.
5416
541736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5418 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5419 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5420 times.
5421
542237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5423 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5424 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5425 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5426 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5427
542838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5429 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5430 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5431 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5432
543339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5434
5435 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5436
5437 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5438 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5439 2^31.
5440
544140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5442 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5443 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5444 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5445 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5446 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5447 $localpart_data.
5448
544941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5450 with the -f command-line option.
5451
545242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5453 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5454 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5455 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5456 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5457 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5458
545943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5460 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5461 line.
5462
546344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5464 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5465 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5466 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5467 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5468 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5469 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5470 buffer is too small.
5471
547245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5473 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5474
547546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5476 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5477 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5478 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5479 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5480 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5481 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5482 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5483 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5484
548547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5486 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5487 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5488
548948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5490 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5491 ACL").
5492
549349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5494 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5495 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5496 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5497 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5498
549950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5500 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5501 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5502 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5503 is set.
5504
550551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5506
550752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5508
550953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5510 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5511
551254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5513 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5514 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5515
551655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5517 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5518 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5519 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5520 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5521
552256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5523 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5524 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5525 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5526 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5527 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5528 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5529
553057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5531 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5532 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5533 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5534 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5535 the test of how many are available.
5536
553758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5538 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5539 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5540 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5541 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5542 new message is started.
5543
554459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5545 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5546
554760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5548 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5549
555061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5551 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5552 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5553 is no long logged.
5554
555562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5556 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5557 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5558 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5559 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5560 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5561 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5562
556363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5564 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5565 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5566 interpreted as octal.
5567
556864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5569 setting.
5570
557165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5572 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5573 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5574 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5575 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5576 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5577
557866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5579 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5580 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5581 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5582
5583 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5584 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5585 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5586 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5587
5588 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5589 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5590 is a bug fix.
5591
5592 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5593 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5594
559567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5596
559768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5598 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5599 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5600 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5601
560269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5603 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5604 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5605 supplied", which is not helpful.
5606
560770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5608 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5609 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5610
561171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5612 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5613 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5614 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5615 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5616 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5617 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5618 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5619
562072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5621 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5622 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5623 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5624 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5625
562673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5627 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5628 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5629 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5630 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5631 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5632
563374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5634 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5635 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5636
563775. Added write_rejectlog option.
5638
563976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5640 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5641 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5642 variables.
5643
564477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5645
564678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5647 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5648 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5649 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5650 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5651 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5652 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5653 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5654
565579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5656 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5657 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5658 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5659 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5660
566180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5662 Haardt.
5663
566481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5665 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5666 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5667 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5668 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5669 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5670 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5671 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5672 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5673
5674
5675Exim version 4.30
5676-----------------
5677
5678 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5679 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5680 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5681
5682 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5683 fixed.
5684
5685 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5686 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5687 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5688
5689 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5690 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5691 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5692 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5693 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5694 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5695
5696 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5697 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5698 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5699 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5700 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5701 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5702 the Exim test suite.
5703
5704 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5705 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5706 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5707 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5708
5709 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5710 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5711 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5712 specify it in this variable.
5713
5714 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5715 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5716 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5717 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5718
5719 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5720 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5721 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5722 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5723
5724 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5725 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5726 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5727 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5728 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5729
5730 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5731
573210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5733 they are logged.
5734
573511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5736 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5737 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5738 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5739 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5740
574112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5742 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5743
574413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5745 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5746 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5747 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5748 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5749
575014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5751 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5752
575315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5754 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5755 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5756
575716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5758 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5759
576017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5761 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5762
576318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5764 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5765 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5766
576719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5768 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5769
577020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5771 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5772 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5773 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5774
577521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5776
577722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5778 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5779 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5780 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5781
578223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5783
578424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5785 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5786
578725. Added .include_if_exists.
5788
578926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5790 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5791 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5792 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5793 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5794 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5795
579627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5797
579828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5799 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5800 this.
5801
580229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5803
580430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5805 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5806
5807 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5808 550 Sender verify failed
5809
5810 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5811 the final line of the response.
5812
581331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5814 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5815 all other user lookups.
5816
581732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5818 delivery time.
5819
582033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5821 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5822 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5823 result into an int without checking.
5824
582534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5826 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5827 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5828
582935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5830 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5831 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5832 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5833
583436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5835 correctly.
5836
583737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5838 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5839
584038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5841 to the empty sender.
5842
584339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5844 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5845 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5846 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5847 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5848 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5849 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5850 panic log.
5851
585240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5853 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5854 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5855 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5856 used.
5857
585841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5859 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5860
586142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5862 timestamps.
5863
586443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5865 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5866
586744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5868
586945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5870 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5871 logs.
5872
587346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5874 as soon as it is encountered.
5875
587647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5877
587848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5879 rewritten to "<>".
5880
588149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5882 recognizes a tab character.
5883
588450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5885 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5886 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5887 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5888
588951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5890
589152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5892 crash.
5893
589453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5895
589654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5897
589855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5899 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5900 2822.
5901
590256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5903 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5904 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5905 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5906 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5907
590857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5909 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5910
591158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5912 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5913 list (.included file names were always shown).
5914
591559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5916 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5917 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5918 root at that time.
5919
592060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5921 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5922
592361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5924
592562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5926
592763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5928
592964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5930 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5931 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5932 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5933 failures to open the logs.
5934
593565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5936 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5937 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5938 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5939 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5940 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5941 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5942
5943
5944Exim version 4.24
5945-----------------
5946
5947 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5948 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5949 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5950 change 4.23/1.
5951
5952 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5953 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5954 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5955
5956 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5957 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5958 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5959
5960 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5961 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5962 causing some misleading effects.
5963
5964 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5965 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5966 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5967
5968 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5969 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5970 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5971 queue-runner function directly.
5972
5973
5974Exim version 4.23
5975-----------------
5976
5977 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5978 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5979
5980 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5981 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5982 was always written to the default place.
5983
5984 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5985 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5986 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5987
5988 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5989
5990 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5991
5992 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5993 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5994 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5995
5996 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5997 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5998 must start.
5999
6000 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6001 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6002 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6003
6004 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6005 command line option is disabled.
6006
6007 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6008 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6009
6010 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6011
6012 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6013
6014 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6015 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6016
601710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6018
601911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6020 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6021 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6022 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6023 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6024 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6025
602612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6027 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6028 timeout.
6029
603013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6031 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6032
603314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6034 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6035
603615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6037 received was valid base64.
6038
603916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6040 name of the variable that was being set.
6041
604217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6043
604418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6045 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6046 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6047 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6048 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6049 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6050
605119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6052
605320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6054 nor realm was specified.
6055
605621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6057 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6058 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6059 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6060
606122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6062 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6063 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6064
606523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6066 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6067 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6068
606924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6070 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6071 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6072 some systems use these upper case variants.
6073
607425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6075 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6076 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6077 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6078
607926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6080
608127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6082 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6083
608428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6085 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6086 expansion variable.
6087
608829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6089
609030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6091 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6092 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6093 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6094
609531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6096 using it.
6097
609832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6099 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6100 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6101
610233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6103 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6104
610534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6106 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6107 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6108 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6109
611035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6111 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6112 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6113
611436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6115
611637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6117 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6118 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6119 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6120 aborted.
6121
612238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6123 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6124 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6125
612639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6127
612840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6129 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6130
613141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6132 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6133
613442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6135 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6136 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6137 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6138 when emails are that large.
6139
6140
6141
6142Exim version 4.22
6143-----------------
6144
6145 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6146 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6147
6148 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6149 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6150 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6151
6152 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6153 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6154 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6155
6156 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6157 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6158 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6159 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6160 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6161
6162 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6163 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6164 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6165 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6166 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6167 ever.
6168
6169 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6170 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6171 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6172 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6173 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6174 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6175 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6176 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6177 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6178 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6179 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6180 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6181 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6182 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6183
6184 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6185 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6186 parameterised it.
6187
6188 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6189 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6190 error should be diagnosed.
6191
6192 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6193 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6194 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6195 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6196 appeared instead of "NULL".
6197
619810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6199 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6200 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6201 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6202 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6203 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6204 proceeds).
6205
6206 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6207 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6208 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6209
6210
6211Exim version 4.21
6212-----------------
6213
6214 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6215 or receiver verification errors.
6216
6217 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6218 name.
6219
6220 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6221 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6222 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6223 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6224
6225 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6226 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6227 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6228 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6229 shouldn't happen again.
6230
6231 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6232 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6233 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6234
6235 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6236 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6237
6238 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6239
6240 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6241 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6242
6243 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6244 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6245 RFC.
6246
624710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6248 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6249 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6250
625111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6252 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6253 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6254 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6255
625612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6257 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6258 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6259 to define what should happen).
6260
626113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6262 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6263 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6264
626514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6266
626715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6268
626916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6270 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6271
627217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6273 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6274 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6275 structure in all cases.
6276
6277 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6278 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6279 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6280 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6281
628218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6283 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6284 domain name.
6285
628619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6287 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6288
628920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6290 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6291
629221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6293 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6294 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6295
629622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6297 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6298 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6299
630023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6301 the book and for uniformity.
6302
630324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6304
630525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6306 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6307 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6308 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6309 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6310 non-existent command as the problem.
6311
631226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6313 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6314 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6315
631627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6317
631828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6319 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6320 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6321
632229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6323 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6324 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6325 timestamps using strftime().
6326
632730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6328 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6329
633032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6331 transport-time rewrites.
6332
633333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6334 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6335 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6336 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6337
633834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6339 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6340
634135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6342 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6343 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6344 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6345 comma and a space.
6346
634736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6348 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6349 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6350 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6351 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6352 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6353 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6354
635537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6356 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6357 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6358 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6359 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6360
636138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6362 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6363 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6364 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6365 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6366 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6367 remaining text gets split now.
6368
636939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6370 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6371 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6372 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6373
637440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6375 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6376 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6377 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6378 $return_path.
6379
638041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6381 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6382 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6383 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6384 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6385 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6386 passed through if needed.
6387
638842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6389 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6390 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6391 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6392 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6393 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6394
639543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6396 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6397 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6398 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6399 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6400
640144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6402 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6403 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6404 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6405 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6406
640745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6408 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6409 noticed.
6410
641146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6412 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6413 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6414 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6415 mayhem of various kinds.
6416
641747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6418 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6419 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6420 the right test for positive values.
6421
642248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6423 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6424 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6425 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6426 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6427 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6428 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6429 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6430 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6431 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6432 envelope.
6433
643449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6435 module.
6436
643750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6438 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6439 forbidding it.
6440
644151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6442 the existing equality matching.
6443
644452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6445 dealing with inode numbers.
6446
644753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6448 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6449 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6450
645154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6452 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6453 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6454 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6455 local_scan().
6456
645755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6458 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6459 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6460 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6461 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6462 relay addresses has also been removed.
6463
646456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6465
646657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6467 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6468 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6469
647058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6471 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6472 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6473 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6474 processing applies to CR:
6475
6476 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6477 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6478
6479 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6480 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6481 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6482 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6483
648459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6485 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6486 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6487
648860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6489 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6490 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6491 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6492 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6493 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6494 arisen.
6495
649661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6497 program routers.
6498
649962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6500 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6501 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6502 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6503 adds:
6504
6505 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6506
6507 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6508
6509 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6510
651163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6512 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6513 not considered personal.
6514
651564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6516
651765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6518
651966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6520
652167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6522 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6523 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6524 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6525 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6526 header lines, and spool format errors.
6527
652868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6529 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6530 for more flexibility.
6531
653269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6533 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6534 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6535
653670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6537 Sabourenkov.
6538
653971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6540 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6541 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6542 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6543 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6544 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6545 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6546 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6547 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6548
654972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6550 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6551 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6552 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6553 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6554 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6555 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6556
655773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6558 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6559 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6560
656174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6562 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6563 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6564 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6565 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6566 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6567 instead of killing the process with assert().
6568
656975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6570 than Unicode encoding.
6571
657276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6573 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6574 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6575 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6576
657777. Added process_log_path.
6578
657978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6580 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6581
658279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6583 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6584
658580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6586 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6587 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6588
658981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6590 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6591 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6592 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6593 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6594 were applied:
6595
6596 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6597 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6598 as invalid.
6599
660082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6601 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6602 they will be used during message reception.
6603
6604
6605Exim version 4.20
6606-----------------
6607
6608The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6609
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