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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
75
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78JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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c39c8870 84GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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85 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
86 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
87 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
88 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
89 be defined in redis_servers.
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91GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
92 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
93
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94JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
95 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
96 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
97 extant use locations.
98
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99JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
100 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
101
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102JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
103 Previously only the last row was returned.
104
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105JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
106 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
107 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
108 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
109 input.
110
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111JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
112 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
113 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
114 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
115 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
116 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
117 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
118 Main pool for expansions.
119 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
120 active in the testsuite.
121 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
122
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123JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
124 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
125 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
126 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
127 round-robin DNS.
128
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129JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
130 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
131 failure response.
132
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133JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
134 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
135 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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136
137JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
138 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
139 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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141JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
142 rows affected is given instead).
143
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144JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
145 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
146
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147JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
148 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
149 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
150 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
151 for all multi-message initiating connections.
152
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153JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
154 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
155 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
156
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157JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
158 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
159 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
160 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
161 separate.
162
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163JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
164 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
165 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
166 fake-reject.
167
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168HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
169
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170JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
171 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
172
aab9a843 173PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 174 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 175 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 176
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177JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
178 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
179 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
180 and send a quit.
181
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182JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
183 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
184
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185JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
186 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
187 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
188
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189JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
190 for the build is renamed.
191
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192JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
193 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
194 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
195
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196JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
197 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
198 result replacing the original.
199
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200JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
201 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
202 and the resources needed to be freed.
203
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204JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
205
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206JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
207 was not propagated.
208
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209JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
210 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
211 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
212 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
213
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214JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
215 length value. Previously this would segfault.
216
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217HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
218 newer versions of the scanner.
219
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220JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
221 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
222 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
223 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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224 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
225 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
226 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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228JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
229 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
230 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
231 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
232 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
233 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
234 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
235 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
236 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
237 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
238
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239JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
240 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
241
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242JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
243
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244HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
245 allows proper process termination in container environments.
246
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247JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
248 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
249
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250JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
251 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
252 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
253
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254JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
255 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
256 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 257 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
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259JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
260 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
261 would be spooled.
262
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263PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
264 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
265
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266HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
267 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
268 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
269 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
270 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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272JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
273 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
274 lines.
275
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276JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
277 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
278
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279PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
280 suffix list.
281
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282JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
283 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
284 "bare" representation.
285
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286JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
287 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
288 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
289 corrupted the output.
290
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295JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
296 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
297 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
298 pairs of long lines into single ones.
299
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300PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
301 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
302
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303JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
304 This permits better logging.
305
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306JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
307 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
308 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
309 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
310 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 311 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
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313JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
314 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
315 "exiwhat" output.
316
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317PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
318 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
319 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
320
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321JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
322 than 255 are no longer allowed.
323
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324JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
325 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
326 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
327 client, there is no benefit for these.
328 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
329 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
330 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
331 is used (3.2.4 +).
332
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333PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
334 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
335
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336JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
337 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
338 erroneously found still-pending ones.
339
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340JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
341 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
342
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343JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
344 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
345 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
346 signature and again for transmission.
347
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348JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
349 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 350 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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352JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
353 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
354 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
355 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
356 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
357 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
358 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
359
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360JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
361 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
362 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 363 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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365PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
366 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
367 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
368 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
369 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
370 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
371 processing options.
372
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373JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
374 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
375 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
376 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
377 connections.
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379PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
380 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
381 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
382 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
383 versions.
384
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385JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
386 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
387 inaccessible.
388
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389JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
390 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
391 banner-time rejection.
392
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393JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
394 callout/hold.
395
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396PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
397 is the name of a transport.
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398 Fixes bug 2140.
399
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400HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
401
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402JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
403 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
404
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405JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
406 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
407 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
408 during compilation.
409
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410JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
411 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
412 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 413 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
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415JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
416 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
417 initial verify call returned a defer.
418
ad1a76fe 419JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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420 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
421
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422JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
423 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
424
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425JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
426 if present. Previously it was ignored.
427
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428JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
429 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
430
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431JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
432 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
433 extensible.
434
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435PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
436 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
437
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438PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
439 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
440 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
441
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442JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
443 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
444 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
445 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
446
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447HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
448 and confused the parent.
449
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450JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
451 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
452
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453JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
454 for log purposes.
455
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456JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
457 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
458 out-of-order delivery.
459
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460JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
461 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
462 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
463 error for the HELO.
464
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465JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
466 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
467 desynchronisation.
468
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469JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
470 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
471 one run was done. Bug 2189.
472
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473JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
474 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
475 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
476 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
477 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
478 message is still "Temporary local problem".
479
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480JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
481 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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482 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
483
484HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
485 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
486 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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488JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
489 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
490 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
491 though a different problem.
492
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9427e879 497JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 498 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 499
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500JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
501
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502PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
503 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
504
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505JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
506 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
507
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508JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
509 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
510 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
511 before acknowledging the chunk.
512
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513PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
514 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
515 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
516
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517JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
518 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
519 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
520 should.
521
522JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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523 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
524 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 525
bd8fbe36 526JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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527 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
528
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529JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
530 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
531 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
532 body hash calculated value.
533
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534JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
535 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
536 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
537
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538JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
539
540JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
541 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
542
543JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
544 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
545 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
546
547JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
548 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
549 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
550 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
551 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
552 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
553
554JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
555 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
556 past that check, despite the cost.
557
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558JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
559 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
560 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
561
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562PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
563 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
564 TLS library to consume.
565
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566PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
567
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568PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
569
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570JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
571 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
572 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
573 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
574 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
575 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
576 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
577
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578PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
579
580PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
581
582PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
583 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
584 should be warning-free.
585
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586JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
587
588HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
589 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
590
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591HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
592 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
593 general solution here.
594
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595PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
596 already-broken messages in the queue.
597
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598JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
599
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600JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
601
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606JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
607 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 608
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609JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
610 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
611 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
612
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613JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
614 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
615 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
616 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
617 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
618 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
619 if one fails this test.
620 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
621 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
622
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623JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
624 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
625
23bb6982 626JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 627 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 628
0bd1b1ed 629JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 630 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 631
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632JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
633 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
634
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635JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
636 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
637
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638JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
639
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640JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
641 certificate).
642
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643JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
644 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
645 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
646 connection after a verify cache hit.
647 Do not update it with the verify result either.
648
649JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
650 when routing results in more than one destination address.
651
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652JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
653 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
654 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
655 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
656 when the cutthrough connection is made).
657
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658JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
659 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
660
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661JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
662 Previously they were not counted.
663
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664JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
665 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
666 that needed the lookup.
667
4c04137d 668JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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669 distinguished as "(=".
670
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671JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
672 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
673
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674JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
675
676JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
677 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 678
4c04137d 679JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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680 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
681
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682JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
683 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
684 compatible.
685
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686JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
687 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
688 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
689 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
690
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691JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
692
f59aaaaa 693JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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694 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
695 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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697JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
698 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
699 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
700 be lost.
701
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702JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
703 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
704 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
705 itself :(
706
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707JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
708 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
709 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
710
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711JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
712 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
713 options.
714
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715JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
716
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717PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
718 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
719
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720PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
721 are not in the system include path.
722
ad7fc6eb 723JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 724 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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725 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
726 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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728JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
729 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
730 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
731
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732JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
733
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734HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
735 an incoming connection.
736
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737HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
738 to rspamd.
739
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740HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
741 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 742
87cb4a16 743JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 744 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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750JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
751 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
752 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
753 client dropping the TLS connection.
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755TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
756 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
757
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758TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
759 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
760 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
761 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
762 outgoing I= field.
763
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764JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
765 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
766 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
767 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
768 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
769 check on the next write.
770
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771HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
772 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
773 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
774 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
775 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
776
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777JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
778 mime_regex ACL conditions.
779
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780JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
781 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
782 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
783
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784JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
785 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
786 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
787 an authenticate fail is not an error.
788
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789HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
790 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
791
4c04137d 792JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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793 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
794
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795JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
796 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
797 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
798 distinct.
799
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800JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
801
802JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
803
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804JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
805
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806JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
807 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
808
98b98887 809JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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810 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
811
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812JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
813
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814JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
815 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
816
817JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
818
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819JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
820 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
821
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822JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
823
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824JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
825 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 826 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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827 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
828 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
829 they will retry in-clear.
830 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
831 at installation time.
832
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833HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
834 with the $config_file variable.
835
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836JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
837 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
838 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
839 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 840 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 841
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842GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
843 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
844 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
845 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
846 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
847
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848JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
849
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850JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
851 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
852 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
853 list order is no longer honoured.
854
4c04137d 855JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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856 for DKIM processing.
857
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858JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
859 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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861JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
862 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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863 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
864 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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866JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
867 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
868
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869JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
870 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
871
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872JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
873 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
874
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875JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
876
ce325893
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877JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
878 cached by the daemon.
879
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880JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
881 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
882
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883JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
884 keys are given for lookup.
885
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886JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
887 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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888 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
889 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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891JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
892 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
893 server-side so match that on older versions.
894
07c73177 895JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 896 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 897 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 898
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899JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
900 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
901
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902JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
903 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
904 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 905 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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906 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
907 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
908 initial truncated version.
909
ab9152ff 910JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 911
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912JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
913
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914JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
915 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
916
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917JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
918
bc3c7bb7 919HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 920
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921JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
922 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
923 induced overflows.
924
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925JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
926 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
927 stage.
928
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929JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
930 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
931
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932JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
933 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
934 former class.
935
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936JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
937 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
938 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
939
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940JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
941 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
942 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
943 extraction. Accept either.
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949JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
950 expanded.
951
506900af
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952JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
953
ad07e9ad
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954JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
955 it.
956
01a4a5c5 957JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 958 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
01a4a5c5
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959 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
960 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
961
cb1d7830 962JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 963 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
cb1d7830
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964 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
965
610ff438 966JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
6d580f19
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967 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
968 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
969 TLS connections
610ff438 970
f926e272
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971JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
972 sites use this now.
973
50dc7409
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974JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
975 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
976 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
977 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
978 have a dsn_lasthop option.
979
0f0c8159
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980JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
981 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 982 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 983
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984JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
985
aeaf5db3
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986JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
987 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
988
5032d1cf
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989JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
990 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
991
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992JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
993 /defer_ok option.
994
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995JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
996 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
997
fd4d8871 998JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 999 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
fd4d8871
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1000 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1001
1002JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1003 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1004 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1005
23763898
JH
1006JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1007 timeout value per server.
1008
2ad78978
JH
1009JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1010 now have the list separator specified.
1011
8a512ed5 1012JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1013 option values.
8a512ed5 1014
82c0c8ea 1015JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
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1016 under OpenSSL.
1017
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1018JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1019
82c0c8ea
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1020JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1021 rather than the verbs used.
1022
b980ed83
JH
1023JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1024 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1025
6c9ed72e
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1026JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1027
cfab9d68 1028HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1029 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1030
f846c8f5
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1031JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1032 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1033
fd4c285c
HSHR
1034HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1035 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1036
4c04137d 1037JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1038
d2a2c69b
JH
1039JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1040
8241d8dd
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1041JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1042 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1043 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1044 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1045
1f12df4d
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1046JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1047
1f155f8e
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1048JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1049 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1050
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1051JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1052 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1053
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1054JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1055
474f71bf
JH
1056JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1057
7137ca4b
JH
1058JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1059
dcb1095c
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1060JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1061 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1062
2f460950
JH
1063JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1064 added for tls authenticator.
1065
2f680c0c
HSHR
1066HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1067
9c695f6d 1068
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4c57a40e 1071
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1072TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1073 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1074 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1075 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1076 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1077 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1078 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1079
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1080TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1081 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1082 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1083 function when detected.
1084
a9b8ec8b
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1085JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1086 cause callback expansion.
1087
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TL
1088TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1089 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1090 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1091 instead of bool when processing it.
1092
0f06b4f2 1093JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1094 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1095
be36e572
JH
1096JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1097
ac4ef9bd
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1098JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1099
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1100TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1101
c713ca4b
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1102TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1103 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1104
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1105JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1106 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1107 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1108 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1109 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1110 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1111
8bc732e8
JH
1112JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1113 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1114 exceeded it.
1115
a7fec7a7
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1116JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1117 version 3.3.6 or later.
1118
4c04137d 1119JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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1120 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1121 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1122 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1123 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1124 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1125 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1126
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1127TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1128 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1129
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1130JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1131 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1132 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1133 matches.
1134
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1135JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1136 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1137 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1138
ad4c5ff9
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1139JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1140 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1141
1142JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1143 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1144 syntax errors.
1145
3394b36a 1146JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1147
1148JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1149 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1150
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1151TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1152 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1153 tarball.
1154
ad4c5ff9
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1155JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1156
4c04137d 1157JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1158 Bug 1561.
1159
1160JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1161 output list separator was used.
1162
8bc732e8 1163
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1166TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1167 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1168 return.
1f0ebb98 1169
a612424f 1170JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1171 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1172
1173JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1174
1175TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1176 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1177
1f0ebb98 1178
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1181
1182TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1183
1184 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1185 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1186 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1187 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1188 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1189 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1190
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1191TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1192 utilities have not been installed.
1193
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1194JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1195 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1196
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1197TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1198 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1199
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1200TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1201 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1202 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1203 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1204
aa26e137
JH
1205JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1206
5a1b8443
WB
1207TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1208 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1209
72c9e342
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1210PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1211 not dns_use_dnssec.
1212
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1213JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1214
770747fd
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1215TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1216 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1217 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1218
8ddef691 1219TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1220 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1221 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1222 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1223 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1224 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1225
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1226JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1227
e45a1c37
JH
1228JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1229 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1230
67d81c10
JH
1231JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1232 failed delivery.
1233
b1f8e4f8
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1234JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1235
511a6c14 1236JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1237
1238JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1239 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1240
51c7471d
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1241JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1242 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1243
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1244TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1245
1e06383a
TL
1246JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1247
76146973
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1248JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1249 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1250
1251 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1252 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1253 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1254
8c8b8274
TL
1255TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1256 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1257 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1258 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1259
35aba663
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1260JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1261
8c51eead 1262JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1263 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1264 lookup).
8c51eead 1265
deae092e
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1266TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1267 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1268 Schlichting.
35aba663 1269
fd3b6a4a 1270JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1271 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1272
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1273TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1274 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1275
2b4a568d
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1276JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1277
d2af03f4
HS
1278TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1279 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1280 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1281
9d1c15ef
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1282JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1283 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1284
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1285JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1286 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1287 hosts_request_ocsp.
1288
ed3bba5f 1289JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1290 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1291 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1292
8ccd00b1
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1293JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1294
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1295TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1296 Christian Aistleitner.
1297
f2de3a33
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1298JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1299
6eb02f88
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1300TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1301 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1302
00bff6f6
JH
1303JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1304 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1305
071c51f7
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1306JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1307 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1308
a6d4c44e
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1309TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1310 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1311
3ae173e7
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1312TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1313 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1314
c13d09b8
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1315TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1316 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1317 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1318
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1319JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1320
66be95e0
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1321PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1322 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1323 Jasper Wallace.
1324
1bd0d12b
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1325JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1326
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1327TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1328 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1329 CVE-2014-2972
1330
fd3b6a4a 1331
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1334
1335PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1336
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1337PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1338 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1339
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1340PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1341 by GnuTLS.
1342
1f4a55da
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1343PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1344 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1345 routines.
1346
13363eba 1347PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1348
66645890 1349PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1350 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1351 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1352 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1353 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1354
a3fb9793 1355PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1356 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1357 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1358 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1359 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1360 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1361
d27f98fe 1362TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1363
6822b909
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1364TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1365
e7568d51
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1366TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1367 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1368
ae0e32ee 1369TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1370 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1371 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1372
1373TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1374
e2658fff
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1375TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1376
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1377TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1378 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1379
976b7e9f
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1380JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1381
be4a1376
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1382JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1383
ec4b68e5
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1384PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1385
d7148a07
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1386NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1387 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1388
585121e2 1389JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1390
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1391PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1392 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1393 function.
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1395PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1396 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1397
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1398JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1399 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1400 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1401
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1402JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1403
3a796370
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1404JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1405
ea722490 1406JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1407 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1408
b1b05573
JH
1409JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1410 Bugzilla 884.
1411
362145b5
JH
1412JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1413 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1414
3c0a92dc
JH
1415JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1416 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1417
6d7c6175
PP
1418PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1419 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1420 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1421
6f123593
JH
1422JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1423 authenticators.
1424
c8e2fc1e
JH
1425JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1426 for control.
1427
005ac57f
PP
1428PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1429
3f1df0e3
PP
1430PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1431 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1432 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1433 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1434
67bd1ab3
TF
1435TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1436
1437 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1438 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1439 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1440 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1441 the retry rules.
1442
1443 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1444 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1445 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1446
1447 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1448 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1449 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1450 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1451
1ddeb334
TF
1452 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1453 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1454 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1455 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1456 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1457 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1458 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1459
1460 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1461 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1462
326cdc37
TF
1463TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1464
1465 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1466
1467 Resent-From: f
1468
1469 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1470 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1471 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1472 username as equal to the username.
1473
1474 This change corrects that bug.
1475
f62514b3
GF
1476GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1477 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1478 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1479
eb505532
TF
1480TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1481
14c7b357
PP
1482PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1483 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1484 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1485 NULL dereference and crash.
1486
94eaf700
PP
1487JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1488
6f5a440a
PP
1489PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1490 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1491 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1492
514ee161
SC
1493SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1494
fd98a5c6
JH
1495JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1496 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1497 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1498 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1499 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1500 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1501 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1502 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1503 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1504 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1505 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1506
035c7f1e
PP
1507PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1508 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1509
ff284120
PP
1510PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1511 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1512 Bugzilla 880.
1513
26e72755
PP
1514PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1515 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1516 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1517 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1518 an empty string is now equivalent.
1519
0fbd9bff
PP
1520PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1521 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1522 not performing validation itself.
1523
700d22f3
PP
1524PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1525 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1526
fcc8e047
JH
1527JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1528 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1529
4c04137d 1530TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1531
8c020188
PP
1532PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1533 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1534 other false fix of the same issue.
1535 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1536 Bugzilla 1363.
1537
d13cdd30
PP
1538PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1539 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1540
e2fbf4a2
PP
1541PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1542 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1543 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1544
f4c1088b
PP
1545PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1546 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1547 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1548
c5c2182f
PP
1549TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1550
73431ca9
JH
1551JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1552
2d07a215
TL
1553TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1554 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1555
a30a8861
TL
1556TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1557 Alexander Miroch.
1558
33382dd9
TL
1559TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1560 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1561 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1562 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1563 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1564
046172e6
TL
1565TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1566 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1567
581d7bee 1568TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1569 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1570 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1571
1572TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1573 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1574 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1575 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1576
237b2cf2
TL
1577TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1578
9fc5a352
TL
1579TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1580 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1581 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1582
b10e4ec2
TL
1583TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1584
e2cebd74
TL
1585TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1586 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1587 interaction.
1588
1589TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1590 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1591
2519e60d
TL
1592TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1593 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1594
e78e6ecf 1595
4263f395
PP
1596Exim version 4.80.1
1597-------------------
1598
1599PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1600 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1601 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1602
ea722490 1603
b1770b6e 1604Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1605-----------------
1606
1607PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1608 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1609 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1610
23c7e742
NM
1611NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1612
b322aac8
NM
1613NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1614 improved.
1615
4a891427
NM
1616NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1617
c1e794ba 1618PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1619
97753960
PP
1620PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1621
1622PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1623 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1624
df6303fa
PP
1625PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1626 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1627
7e6a8985
PP
1628PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1629 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1630
f1e05cc7 1631PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1632 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1633 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1634
4c287009
PP
1635PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1636
b98bb9ac
PP
1637PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1638 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1639
4a6a987a
PP
1640PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1641
c45dd180 1642PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1643
7db8d074
PP
1644PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1645 non-compliant senders.
1646 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1647
eae0036b 1648NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1649 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1650 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1651
dec5017e
PP
1652PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1653 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1654 in spool file corruption.
1655
c80c5570
PP
1656PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1657 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1658 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1659 "Got SSL error 2".
1660
076b11e2
PP
1661TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1662 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1663 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1664
5407bfff
JH
1665JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1666 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1667
9e45c72b
PP
1668JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1669
e74376d8
PP
1670PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1671 diagnostics.
1672 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1673
4c04137d 1674PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1675 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1676 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1677
7be682ca
PP
1678PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1679 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1680 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1681 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1682
ef840681
PP
1683PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1684 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1685
5bfb4cdf
PP
1686PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1687 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1688 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1689 resolver implementation change.
1690
c6e95d22
PP
1691PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1692 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1693
9cbad13b
PP
1694PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1695
9ee44efb
PP
1696PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1697
6a6084f8
PP
1698PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1699 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1700
12dd53c7
PP
1701PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1702 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1703
9e45c72b 1704JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1705 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1706
17c76198
PP
1707PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1708 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1709 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1710 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1711 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1712
53947857 1713PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1714
eae0036b 1715PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1716 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1717 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1718
9e45c72b 1719JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1720
7390e768
PP
1721PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1722 read-only, out of scope).
1723 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1724
08488c86
PP
1725PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1726 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1727 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1728 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1729
6475bd82
PP
1730PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1731
81f91683
PP
1732PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1733 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1734 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1735 real issues in debug logging.
1736
5779e6aa
PP
1737PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1738 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1739
3375e053
PP
1740PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1741 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1742 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1743
1744PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1745 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1746 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1747 problems.
3375e053 1748
9d26b8c0
PP
1749PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1750 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1751
57eb9e91 1752PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1753 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1754 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1755 needs to override this, it can.
1756
16880d1a
PP
1757PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1758 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1759 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1760
a799883d
PP
1761PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1762 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1763 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1764 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1765
3ecab157 1766PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1767
0599f9cf 1768
867fcbf5
PP
1769Exim version 4.77
1770-----------------
1771
1772PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1773 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1774
f1a29782
TF
1775TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1776
ab42bd23
TK
1777TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1778 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1779
0ca0cf52
TF
1780TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1781 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1782
921b12ca
TF
1783TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1784 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1785 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1786
1787 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1788 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1789 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1790 not safe for signals.
1791
1792 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1793 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1794 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1795 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1796 exiwhat.
1797
c99ce5c9
TF
1798TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1799
1800 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1801 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1802 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1803 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1804 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1805
1806 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1807 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1808 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1809 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1810 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1811 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1812
1813 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1814 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1815 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1816 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1817
1818 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1819 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1820 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1821 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1822
1823 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1824 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1825 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1826 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1827 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1828 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1829 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1830 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1831 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1832
1833 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1834 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1835 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1836 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1837
1838 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1839 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1840 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1841 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1842 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1843 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1844 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1845 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1846 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1847 details in the main documentation.
1848
3634fc25
TF
1849TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1850
792e8a19
TF
1851TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1852
5901f0ab
TF
1853TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1854 repository when doing development or release builds.
1855
7f2a2a43
PP
1856PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1857 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1858
061b7ebd
PP
1859PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1860 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1861 Bugzilla 97.
1862
e12f8c32
PP
1863PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1864
9e949f00 1865PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1866 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1867
1868PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1869 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1870
555ae6af 1871PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1872 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1873
1874PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1875 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1876
6f7fe114
PP
1877PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1878 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1879
c566dd90
PP
1880PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1881 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1882 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1883 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1884
d6cc7c78 1885PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1886 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1887 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1888
0d0e4455
PP
1889PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1890
3399bb60 1891PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1892
1893PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1894 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1895
0ca0cf52 1896
10906672
PP
1897Exim version 4.76
1898-----------------
1899
1900PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1901
754a0503
PP
1902PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1903 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1904
c0c7b2da
PP
1905PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1906
e97d1f08
PP
1907PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1908
084c1d8c
PP
1909PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1910 Bugzilla 1098.
1911
4e7ee012
PP
1912PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1913 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1914
c8d52a00
PP
1915TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1916 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1917
54e7ce4a
PP
1918PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1919 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1920
5ee6f336
PP
1921PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1922 Bugzilla 1104.
1923
c8d52a00 1924TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1925 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1926
1927TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1928 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1929 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1930 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1931
1932PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1933 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1934
10906672 1935
aa097c4c
NM
1936Exim version 4.75
1937-----------------
1938
4c04137d 1939NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1940 Bugzilla 1073
1941
7f3d9eff
TF
1942TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1943 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1944 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1945
159f52d2
TF
1946TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1947 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1948
0cc9542a
PP
1949PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1950 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1951 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1952
f7274286
PP
1953PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1954 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1955
7b797365
PP
1956PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1957 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1958
caacae52
NM
1959NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1960 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1961
09dcaba9
NM
1962NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1963 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1964
bc19a55b
PP
1965PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1966 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1967
bd4c9759
NM
1968NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1969 Fixes bug 943.
1970
b72aab72
PP
1971PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1972 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1973
2fe76745
PP
1974PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1975 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1976
76aa570c
PP
1977PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1978 SQL string expansion failure details.
1979 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1980
f1e5fef5
PP
1981PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1982 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1983
4d805ee9
PP
1984PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1985 extern declarations in function scope.
1986 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1987
cd59ab18
PP
1988PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1989 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1990 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1991 a kernel bug).
1992
332f5cf3
PP
1993PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1994 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1995
29cfeb94
PP
1996PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1997 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1998
660242ad
PP
1999PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2000 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2001
bc4bc4c5
PP
2002PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2003 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2004
2e64baa9
NM
2005NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2006 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2007 Dennis Davis.
2008
4c04137d 2009PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2010
6bac1a9a
PP
2011PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2012
552193f0
NM
2013NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2014 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2015
1b587e48
TF
2016TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2017 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2018
aa097c4c 2019
8c07b69f
TF
2020Exim version 4.74
2021-----------------
2022
2023TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2024 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2025
c0ea85ab
TF
2026TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2027 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2028
0761d44e
TF
2029TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2030
0a349494
PP
2031DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2032 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2033 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2034
2035PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2036 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2037 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2038
fea24b2e
PP
2039PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2040 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2041 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2042 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2043
6545de78
PP
2044PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2045 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2046 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2047 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2048
1670ef10
PP
2049PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2050 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2051 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2052 arbitrary files.
2053
c0886197
PP
2054PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2055 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2056
b7487bce
PP
2057PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2058 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2059 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2060 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2061 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2062
8c07b69f 2063
97fd1e48 2064Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2065-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2066
2067PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2068 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2069 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2070
6901c596
PP
2071PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2072 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2073
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2074JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2075
77bb000f
PP
2076PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2077
a29e5231
PP
2078PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2079
ec5a0394 2080PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2081
55c75993
PP
2082PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2083
453a6645 2084PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2085 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2086 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2087 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2088
8544e77a
PP
2089PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2090 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2091 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2092 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2093 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2094
83e029d5
PP
2095PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2096
ed7f7860
PP
2097PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2098
7d9f747b
PP
2099PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2100
4b2241d2
PP
2101PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2102
10385c15
PP
2103PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2104
dbc4b90d
PP
2105PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2106
532be449
PP
2107PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2108
6a8de854 2109PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2110 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2111 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2112
5dc43717
JJ
2113JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2114
2115JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2116 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2117
3346ab01
PP
2118PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2119 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2120
491fab4c
PP
2121PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2122 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2123 Notification from John Horne.
2124
13eb9497
PP
2125PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2126 compatible.
2127
2128PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2129 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2130 it normally works.
2131
7f36d675
DW
2132DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2133 access.
2134
c1d94452
DW
2135DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2136 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2137 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2138
e2f5dc15
DW
2139DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2140 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2141 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2142 configuration file.
2143
cd25e41d
DW
2144DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2145 option (effectively making it always true).
2146
261dc43e
DW
2147DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2148 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2149
fa32850b
DW
2150DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2151 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2152
79d4bc3d
PP
2153PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2154 run-time user, instead of root.
2155
43236f35 2156PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2157 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2158
fb08281f
DW
2159DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2160 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2161 arguments.
3346ab01 2162
74935b98
DW
2163DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2164 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2165 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2166
90b6341f
DW
2167DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2168
57730b52
ML
2169NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2170
66581d1e 2171
465e92cf
JJ
2172Exim version 4.72
2173-----------------
2174
453a6645
PP
2175JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2176 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2177 typos
465e92cf 2178
453a6645
PP
2179JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2180 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2181 (Finput)
edae0343 2182
9bd3e22c
NM
2183NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2184 Patch from Alain Williams
2185
bb576ff7
NM
2186NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2187
5a1a5845
NM
2188NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2189 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2190
981a9fad
NM
2191NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2192 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2193
7fc497ee
NM
2194NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2195
1a41defa
JJ
2196JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2197
a466095c 2198NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2199 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2200
94a6bd0b
NM
2201TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2202
2203TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2204
2205MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2206 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2207 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2208
c1b141a8
NM
2209NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2210 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2211
b26eacf1 2212NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2213 Patch by Simon Arlott
2214
179c5980 2215PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2216 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2217
9bd3e22c 2218
7c6d71af
NM
2219Exim version 4.71
2220-----------------
2221
7d9f747b 2222TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2223
f013fb92
NM
2224NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2225
0eb8eedd
NM
2226NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2227
663ee6d9
NM
2228NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2229
177ebd9b
NM
2230NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2231
7c6d71af 2232
210f147e
NM
2233Exim version 4.70
2234-----------------
2235
cdd3bb85 2236TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2237 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2238
2239TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2240 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2241 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2242
2243TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2244 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2245 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2246
2247TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2248 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2249
210f147e
NM
2250NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2251 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2252 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2253 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2254
deafd5b3
NM
2255NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2256 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2257 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2258
089793a4
TF
2259TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2260
5f16ca82
TF
2261TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2262
dae9d94e 2263NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2264 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2265
7d9f747b 2266NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2267
06864c44
TF
2268TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2269 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2270 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2271 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2272
65a7d8c3 2273NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2274 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2275
23510047 2276TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2277
7d9f747b 2278NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2279
7d8eec3a 2280NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2281 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2282
89dec7b6
TF
2283TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2284 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2285
a99de90c
TF
2286TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2287 that they are available at delivery time.
2288
e2803e40
TF
2289TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2290
7199e1ee
TF
2291TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2292 incoming_port log selectors.
2293
e276e04b
TF
2294TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2295 setting expands to an empty string.
2296
ce552449 2297NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2298 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2299
e765a0f1 2300NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2301 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2302
4f054c63 2303NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2304 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2305
7d9f747b
PP
2306NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2307 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2308
7d9f747b
PP
2309NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2310 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2311
b52bc06e 2312NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2313 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2314
447de4b0
NM
2315NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2316
4c69d561 2317NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2318 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2319
d5c39246 2320NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2321 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2322
0b23848a
TK
2323TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2324
8f3414a1 2325NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2326 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2327
fb6f955d
NM
2328NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2329
2330NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2331
7d9f747b
PP
2332NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2333 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2334
7d9f747b
PP
2335NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2336 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2337
7d9f747b
PP
2338NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2339 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2340
7d9f747b
PP
2341NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2342 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2343
7d9f747b
PP
2344NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2345 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2346
7d9f747b
PP
2347NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2348 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2349
7d9f747b
PP
2350NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2351 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2352
7d9f747b 2353NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2354 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2355
7d9f747b 2356NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2357
7d9f747b
PP
2358NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2359 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2360
7d9f747b 2361NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2362
7d9f747b 2363NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2364
7d9f747b 2365NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2366
7d9f747b 2367NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2368
17792b53 2369NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2370 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2371
7d9f747b
PP
2372NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2373 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2374
91576cec 2375NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2376 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2377
7d9f747b
PP
2378NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2379 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2380
7d9f747b 2381NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2382
7d9f747b 2383NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2384
7d9f747b 2385NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2386
7d9f747b 2387NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2388
deafd5b3 2389
47db1125
NM
2390Exim version 4.69
2391-----------------
2392
4b3504d0
TK
2393TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2394 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2395 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2396
2397 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2398 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2399 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2400 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2401 build errors in sieve.c.
2402
81ea09ca
NM
2403NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2404 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2405 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2406
f13cddcb
SC
2407SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2408
7d9f747b 2409NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2410
7d9f747b 2411NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2412
7d9f747b 2413NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2414
2415
eb4c0de6
PH
2416Exim version 4.68
2417-----------------
2418
2419PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2420
6a3bceb1
PH
2421PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2422 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2423 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2424 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2425 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2426 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2427 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2428 for iplsearch lookups.
2429
2430 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2431 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2432 previously such lookups could never work.
2433
4c04137d 2434 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2435 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2436 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2437
2e30fa9d
TK
2438TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2439 version.
2440
0806a9c5
MH
2441MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2442 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2443 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2444 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2445 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2446 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2447
ae276964
TK
2448TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2449 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2450
0f2cbd1b
MH
2451MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2452 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2453 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2454 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2455 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2456 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2457
2b85bce7
PH
2458PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2459 local_scan API.
2460
93655c46
PH
2461PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2462
6c512171
PH
2463PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2464 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2465 encrypted.
2466
2467PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2468 by clients under certain conditions.
2469
aa6dc513
PH
2470PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2471 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2472
a96603a0
PH
2473PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2474
8f240103
PH
2475PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2476 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2477
2478PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2479
d677b2f2
PH
2480PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2481
d52120f2
PH
2482PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2483
64f2600a
PH
2484PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2485 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2486
8669f003
PH
2487PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2488
a4dc33a8
PH
2489PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2490 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2491
d6a60c0f
PH
2492PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2493
8f128379
PH
2494PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2495
8932dffe
PH
2496PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2497 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2498 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2499 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2500
ddea74fa 2501PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2502 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2503 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2504
ddea74fa 2505PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2506 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2507
ddea74fa
PH
2508PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2509
ce9f225c
PH
2510PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2511
19897d52
PH
2512PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2513
bc64a74d
PH
2514PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2515 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2516 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2517
eb4c0de6 2518
b4ed4da0
PH
2519Exim version 4.67
2520-----------------
2521
22ad45c9
MH
2522MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2523 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2524 Jan Srzednicki.
2525
b4ed4da0
PH
2526PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2527 issue a MAIL command.
2528
431b7361
PH
2529PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2530
2531 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2532
2533 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2534 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2535 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2536 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2537 item. This has been fixed.
2538
2539PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2540 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2541
83da1223
PH
2542PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2543 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2544
54fc8428
PH
2545PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2546 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2547 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2548
34c5e8dd
SC
2549SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2550
bbe15da8
PH
2551PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2552 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2553 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2554 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2555 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2556
0e8a9471
MH
2557MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2558 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2559 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2560
f0872424
PH
2561PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2562 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2563 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2564 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2565
b01dd148
PH
2566PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2567
6bf342e1
PH
2568PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2569
273f34d0
PH
2570PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2571 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2572 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2573 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2574 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2575
cf8b11a5
PH
2576PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2577
41c7c167
PH
2578PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2579 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2580 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2581 values).
2582
9c57cbc0
PH
2583PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2584
f3f065bb
PH
2585PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2586
047bdd8c
PH
2587PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2588
0ce9abe6
PH
2589PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2590
0e22dfd1
PH
2591PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2592
4c590bd1
PH
2593PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2594 no_callout_flush is set.
2595
09945f1e
PH
2596PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2597 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2598 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2599 fixed.
2600
c51b8e75
PH
2601PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2602
e28326d8 2603PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2604 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2605 other ACL rejections are.
2606
75b1493f
PH
2607PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2608 with slight modification.
2609
7c5214ec
PH
2610PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2611 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2612
4311097e
PH
2613PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2614 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2615 connection.
2616
29f89cad
PH
2617PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2618 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2619
5e687460
SC
2620SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2621
c3611384
PH
2622PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2623 expansion side effects.
2624
5a11a7b4
PH
2625PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2626 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2627 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2628 be the same.
2629
0e20aff9
MH
2630MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2631 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2632 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2633
ca86f471
PH
2634PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2635 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2636 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2637 were accidentally chopped off.
2638
a14e5636
PH
2639PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2640 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2641 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2642 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2643 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2644 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2645 pipelining has not been advertised.
2646
ec95d1a6
PH
2647PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2648
42855d71
PH
2649PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2650 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2651 This has been fixed.
2652
57c2c631
PH
2653PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2654 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2655 reported on Solaris.
2656
58c01c94
PH
2657PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2658 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2659 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2660 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2661 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2662 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2663 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2664
dee5a20a
PH
2665PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2666 cpus.
2667
d2ee6114
PH
2668PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2669
b2d5182b
PH
2670PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2671
79749a79
PH
2672PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2673 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2674 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2675 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2676 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2677 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2678
c456d9bb
PH
2679PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2680 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2681 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2682 host_all_ignored option.
2683
cd9868ec
PH
2684PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2685 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2686 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2687 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2688 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2689 is what is supposed to happen).
2690
ebeaf996
PH
2691PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2692 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2693 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2694 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2695 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2696 uses the Exim user.
2697
2679d413
PH
2698PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2699 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2700 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2701 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2702 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2703 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2704 users.
2705
84024b72
PH
2706PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2707
8005d38e
SC
2708SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2709 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2710 (Jez Hancock).
2711 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2712 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2713
3298c6c6
SC
2714SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2715
a43a27c5
PH
2716PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2717
58eb016e 2718PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2719 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2720 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2721 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2722 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2723 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2724 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2725 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2726 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2727 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2728 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2729
b43a74ea
PH
2730PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2731 advertised in response to EHLO.
2732
b4ed4da0 2733
5dd1517f
PH
2734Exim version 4.66
2735-----------------
2736
2737PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2738 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2739
2740 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2741 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2742
2743 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2744 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2745 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2746
2747 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2748 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2749 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2750 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2751 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2752
2753
93cfa765
TK
2754Exim version 4.65
2755-----------------
2756
2757TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2758 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2759 versions. (#438)
2760
d6066548
MH
2761MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2762 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2763 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2764
4362ff0d
PH
2765PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2766 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2767 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2768 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2769 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2770 rather than extend the field.
2771
93cfa765 2772
944e9e9c
TF
2773Exim version 4.64
2774-----------------
aa41d2de 2775
21d74bd9
TK
2776TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2777 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2778 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2779 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2780 these files.
2781
2782TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2783 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2784 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2785
2786TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2787 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2788 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2789
2790TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2791 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2792 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2793 in the field name.
2794
2b1c6e3a
PH
2795PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2796 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2797 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2798 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2799 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2800 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2801 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2802 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2803 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2804 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2805 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2806
1f872c80
PH
2807PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2808 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2809
2810PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2811 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2812 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2813 ignores EPIPE as well.
2814
d203e649
PH
2815PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2816 (quoted-printable decoding).
2817
cc2ed8f7 2818PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2819 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2820
ddfcd446
PH
2821PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2822
d45b1de8
PH
2823PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2824
2825PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2826
38a0a95f 2827PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2828 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2829
a2405d83
JJ
2830JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2831 in 4.64-PH/09.
2832
2833JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2834 miscellaneous code fixes
2835
6ea85e9a
PH
2836PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2837 rejections.
2838
26da7e20
PH
2839PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2840 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2841 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2842 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2843 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2844 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2845 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2846 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2847
14aa5a05 2848PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2849 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2850 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2851 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2852 function.
2853 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2854 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2855 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2856 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2857 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2858 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2859 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2860 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2861 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2862
ff75a1f7
PH
2863PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2864 decoding.
2865
e6f6568e
PH
2866PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2867 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2868 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2869 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2870 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2871 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2872 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2873 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2874
d6f6e0dc
PH
2875PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2876 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2877 list.
2878
322050c2
PH
2879PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2880 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2881 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2882 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2883 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2884 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2885 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2886 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2887 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2888 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2889 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2890 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2891 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2892
08955dd3
PH
2893PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2894 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2895 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2896 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2897 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2898 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2899 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2900
1eccaa59
PH
2901PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2902 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2903 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2904 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2905 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2906 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2907 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2908 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2909 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2910 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2911
602e59e5
PH
2912PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2913 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2914 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2915 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2916 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2917
411ef850
PH
2918PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2919 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2920 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2921 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2922 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2923 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2924 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2925
7befa435
PH
2926PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2927 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2928 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2929 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2930 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2931 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2932 been verified.
2933
48da4259 2934PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2935 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2936 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2937 and authorization.)
2938
48da4259
PH
2939PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2940 if any retry times were supplied.
2941
d1d5595c
PH
2942PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2943 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2944 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2945
0ef732d9
PH
2946PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2947
328895cc
PH
2948PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2949
fd700877
PH
2950PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2951 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2952 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2953 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2954 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2955 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2956
8dce1a6f
PH
2957PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2958 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2959
17af4a17
PH
2960PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2961 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2962 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2963
2964PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2965 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2966 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2967 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2968 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2969 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2970 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2971 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2972 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2973
2974 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2975 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2976 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2977 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2978 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2979 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2980 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2981 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2982 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2983
2984 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2985 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2986 hammering the server.
2987
c1114884
PH
2988PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2989 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2990
7a0743eb
PH
2991PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2992
0d85fa3f
PH
2993PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2994 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2995 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2996
1bf43b78
PH
2997PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2998 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2999 one case where this was not true.
3000
520de300
PH
3001PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3002 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3003 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3004 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3005 fails.
3006
48c7f9e2
PH
3007PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3008 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3009 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3010 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3011 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3012 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3013 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3014 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3015 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3016 smtp transport.
3017
99ea1c86
PH
3018PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3019 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3020 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3021 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3022
a2042e78
PH
3023PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3024 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3025
4fbcfc2e
PH
3026PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3027 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3028 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3029
aa41d2de
PH
3030PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3031
af561417
PH
3032PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3033
3cc66b45
PH
3034PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3035
194cc0e4
PH
3036PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3037 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3038 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3039 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3040
a401ddaa
PH
3041PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3042 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3043
4e88a19f
PH
3044PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3045 be meaningful with "accept".
3046
d7d7b289
SC
3047SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3048 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3049
3050SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3051 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3052 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3053
3054SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3055 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3056 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3057 there is data to show.
3058 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3059
3060SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3061 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3062 as well as the number of messages.
3063
3064SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3065 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3066 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3067
3068SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3069 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3070 have a flag are now skipped.
3071
3072SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3073 Added the -emptyok flag.
3074
3075SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3076 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3077
0ea2a468
JJ
3078JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3079 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3080 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3081
3082JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3083 match 4.64-PH/13
3084
3085JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3086 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3087
3088JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3089
3090JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3091 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3092
8a10f5a4
PH
3093PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3094
30e18802
PH
3095PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3096 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3097 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3098 contravention of the specifications.
3099
55728a4f
PH
3100PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3101 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3102 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3103
d7837193
PH
3104PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3105 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3106 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3107
87054a31
PH
3108PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3109
ea2c01d2
MH
3110MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3111 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3112 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3113 some point in the past.
3114
e4fa6968
PH
3115PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3116 transport during callout processing was broken.
3117
56f5d9bd
PH
3118PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3119 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3120
922e1c28
PH
3121PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3122 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3123
21eb6e72
PH
3124PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3125 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3126
a0540757
PH
3127PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3128
944e9e9c 3129
478be7b0
SC
3130Exim version 4.63
3131-----------------
3132
3133SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3134 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3135
3136SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3137 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3138 there is data to show.
3139 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3140
3141SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3142 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3143
2b965a65
TF
3144TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3145 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3146
45b91596
PH
3147TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3148 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3149
c59f5781
TF
3150TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3151 submissions from trusted users.
3152
90fc3069
TF
3153TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3154 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3155
6083aca0
TF
3156TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3157 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3158 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3159 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3160 there is now a framework to start from.
3161
765b530f
PH
3162PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3163 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3164 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3165
4e167a8c
PH
3166PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3167
4608d683
PH
3168PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3169
b8dc3e4a
PH
3170PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3171
5418e93b
PH
3172PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3173 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3174 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3175
b4a9bda2
PH
3176PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3177 libradius.
3178
45b91596
PH
3179PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3180 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3181 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3182
5547e2c5
PH
3183PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3184 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3185 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3186 its arguments.
3187
dbcef0ea
PH
3188PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3189 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3190 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3191 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3192 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3193
25257489
PH
3194PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3195 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3196
c816d124
PH
3197PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3198
a9ccd69a
PH
3199PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3200 operations in malware.c.
3201
75fa1910
PH
3202PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3203 signatures.
3204
a7d7aa58
PH
3205PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3206 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3207 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3208 all.
3209
42119b09
PH
3210PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3211 statements to "add_header".
3212
41609df5
PH
3213PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3214 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3215
a5bd321b
PH
3216PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3217 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3218 latter.
3219
e85a7ad5 3220PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3221 so that it is now:
3222
e85a7ad5
PH
3223 ${if or { \
3224 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3225 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3226 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3227 }{no}{yes}}
3228
e85a7ad5
PH
3229 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3230 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3231
d8fe1c03
PH
3232PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3233 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3234
16282d2b
PH
3235PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3236 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3237 any possible encoding problems.
3238
35d40a98
PH
3239PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3240 but not after initializing Perl.
3241
034d99ab
PH
3242PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3243 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3244 apparently, which is not desirable.
3245
6ec97b1b
PH
3246PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3247 queries.
3248
e22ca4ac
JJ
3249JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3250 --not options
3251
3252JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3253
33d73e3b
PH
3254PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3255 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3256 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3257 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3258
9ecb03f3
PH
3259PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3260 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3261 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3262
084efe8d
PH
3263PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3264 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3265 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3266 0.12.
3267
366fc9f0
PH
3268PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3269 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3270 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3271 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3272 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3273
c59f5781 3274
c887c79e
TF
3275Exim version 4.62
3276-----------------
3277
3278TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3279 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3280
1cce3af8
PH
3281PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3282 patch).
3283
afb3eaaf
PH
3284PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3285 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3286 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3287 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3288 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3289 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3290 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3291 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3292 451 error is used.
3293
e173618b
PH
3294PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3295
dd16e114
PH
3296PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3297 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3298 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3299
f7fd3850
PH
3300PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3301 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3302 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3303 odd errors.
3304
d87df92c
PH
3305PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3306 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3307
7e9f683d
PH
3308PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3309 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3310 option (which defaults to 0600).
3311
bfad5236
PH
3312PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3313
01c490df
PH
3314PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3315 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3316 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3317 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3318 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3319 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3320 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3321
d6629cdc
PH
3322PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3323
1cce3af8 3324
214e2000
PH
3325Exim version 4.61
3326-----------------
3327
3328PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3329 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3330 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3331 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3332 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3333 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3334 addresses as local.
3335
f9daeae0
PH
3336PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3337 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3338
7e66e54d
PH
3339PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3340
c8ea1597
PH
3341PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3342 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3343 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3344 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3345 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3346 grumble.
3347
911f6fde
PH
3348PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3349 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3350
47ca6d6c
PH
3351PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3352 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3353 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3354 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3355 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3356
ed0e9820
PH
3357PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3358 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3359 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3360 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3361
eff37e47
PH
3362PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3363 be the same on different OS.
3364
1921d2ea
PH
3365PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3366 testing.
3367
b3f69ca8
JJ
3368JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3369 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3370
3371JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3372 in 4.61-PH/06
3373
424a1c63
PH
3374PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3375 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3376 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3377 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3378 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3379 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3380 bounce message.
3381
7a100415
PH
3382PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3383 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3384 when Exim was called.
3385
19b9dc85
PH
3386PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3387 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3388
309bd837
PH
3389PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3390 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3391 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3392 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3393
59e82a2a
PH
3394PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3395 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3396 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3397 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3398 changes:
3399
3400 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3401 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3402 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3403
3404 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3405 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3406 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3407
9edc04ce
PH
3408PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3409 feature).
3410
1349e1e5
PH
3411PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3412 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3413 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3414 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3415 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3416 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3417 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3418 values from the SRV records were lost.
3419
ea49d0e1
PH
3420PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3421 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3422 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3423
064a94c9
PH
3424PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3425 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3426 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3427
727071f8
PH
3428PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3429 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3430 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3431 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3432 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3433 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3434 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3435 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3436 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3437 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3438
f78eb7c6
PH
3439PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3440 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3441 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3442
21c28500
PH
3443PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3444 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3445
3446PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3447 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3448 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3449 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3450 is given.
3451
1688f43b
PH
3452PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3453 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3454 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3455
3456PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3457 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3458 PH/23 above applies.
3459
9675b384
PH
3460PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3461 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3462 (for which there is an explicit test).
3463
6a3f1455
PH
3464PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3465
dac79d3e
PH
3466PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3467 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3468 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3469 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3470 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3471
5977a0b3
PH
3472PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3473 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3474 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3475 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3476
c91535f3
PH
3477PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3478 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3479 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3480
0d46a8c8
PH
3481PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3482
278c6e6c
PH
3483PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3484
2cbb4081
PH
3485PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3486 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3487 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3488
3eef829e
PH
3489PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3490 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3491 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3492 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3493 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3494
1ab95fa6
PH
3495PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3496 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3497 the message gets confusing).
3498
230205fc
PH
3499PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3500 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3501 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3502 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3503
75e0e026
PH
3504PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3505 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3506 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3507 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3508 same order.
3509
3510PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3511 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3512 the different processes.
3513
145396a6
PH
3514PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3515
3cd34f13
PH
3516PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3517
11121d3d
JJ
3518JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3519 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3520
3521JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3522 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3523
3524JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3525 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3526 messages matching specified criteria.
3527
8def5aaf
PH
3528PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3529
929ba01c
PH
3530PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3531 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3532
2632889e
PH
3533PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3534 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3535 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3536 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3537 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3538 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3539 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3540 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3541 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3542 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3543
944a9c55
PH
3544PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3545 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3546 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3547
4a23603b
PH
3548PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3549
4730f942
PH
3550PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3551 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3552 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3553 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3554 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3555 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3556 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3557 the variable.
3558
30dba1e6
PH
3559PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3560 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3561
382afc6b
PH
3562PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3563
a86229cf
PH
3564PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3565
50c99ba6
PH
3566PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3567
d35e429d
PH
3568PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3569 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3570 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3571 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3572 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3573 size of the count of files.
3574
f90d018c
PH
3575PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3576
75def545
PH
3577PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3578 used in LMTP mode:
3579
3580 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3581 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3582 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3583 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3584
3585 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3586 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3587 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3588
3589PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3590 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3591 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3592 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3593 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3594
c46782ef
PH
3595PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3596 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3597
71fafd95
PH
3598PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3599 will now be deprecated.
3600
2c5db4fd
PH
3601PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3602
9cf6b11a
JJ
3603JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3604 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3605 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3606
3607JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3608 with very large, slow to parse queues
3609
3610JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3611
3612JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3613
898d150f
PH
3614PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3615 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3616 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3617 SMTP output lines.
3618
46218253
PH
3619PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3620 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3621 Sieve code now uses this.
3622
e97957bc
PH
3623PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3624 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3625
81e509d7
PH
3626PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3627 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3628
3d240ff7
PH
3629PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3630
b37c4101
PH
3631PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3632 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3633 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3634 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3635 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3636
79378e0f
PH
3637PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3638 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3639 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3640 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3641
e49c7bb4
PH
3642PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3643
d114ec46
PH
3644PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3645
f3d7df6c
PH
3646PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3647 is preferred over IPv4.
3648
715ab376
PH
3649PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3650 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3651 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3652 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3653 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3654 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3655 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3656
6b31b150
PH
3657PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3658 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3659 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3660
3661PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3662
d515a917
PH
3663PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3664 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3665 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3666 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3667 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3668 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3669 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3670 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3671 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3672 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3673 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3674
9b8fadde
PH
3675PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3676 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3677 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3678
214e2000 3679
5de37277
PH
3680Exim version 4.60
3681-----------------
3682
cc38ddbf
PH
3683PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3684
3685 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3686 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3687
3688 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3689 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3690 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3691
72fdd6ae
PH
3692PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3693
3694 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3695 not a single digit.
3696
3697 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3698 string.
3699
3700 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3701 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3702 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3703 silly things.
3704
3705 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3706 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3707
3708 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3709 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3710
cb741023
PH
3711PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3712 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3713 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3714
f174f16e
PH
3715PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3716 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3717
c25242d7
PH
3718PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3719 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3720
3721 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3722
3723 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3724 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3725 this:
3726
3727 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3728
82c19f95
PH
3729PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3730 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3731 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3732 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3733 identical. For example:
3734
3735 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3736
3737 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3738 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3739 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3740
d7ffbc12
PH
3741PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3742 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3743 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3744 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3745
9f526266
PH
3746PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3747 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3748 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3749 message.
3750
87fcc8b9
PH
3751PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3752
3753 o fixes some comments
3754 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3755 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3756 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3757 and documents the missing references header update
3758
3759 and most important:
3760
3761 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3762 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3763 result)
3764
456682f5
PH
3765PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3766 Electronic Mail") by including:
3767
3768 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3769
3770 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3771 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3772 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3773 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3774 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3775
3776 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3777
3778 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3779
3780 The auto-replied keyword:
3781
3782 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3783 message by an automatic process,
3784
3785 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3786
3787 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3788 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3789
3790 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3791 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3792 other messages.
3793
3e46c1aa
PH
3794PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3795 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3796
49826d12
PH
3797PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3798
eba0c039
PH
3799PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3800 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3801 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3802
a0d6ba8a
PH
3803PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3804 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3805 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3806
f0917727
PH
3807PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3808 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3809 and treats the condition as false.
3810
096fee00
PH
3811PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3812
024bd3c2
PH
3813PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3814 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3815 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3816 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3817 not changing the active code.
3818
3819 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3820 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3821
3822 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3823 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3824
df199fec
PH
3825PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3826 (Bugzilla #53).
3827
d27f1df3
PH
3828PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3829 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3830 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3831 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3832 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3833 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3834 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3835 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3836 the text comparison.
3837
96776534
PH
3838PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3839 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3840 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3841 The same fix has been applied.
3842
5de37277 3843
9a799bc0
PH
3844Exim version 4.54
3845-----------------
3846
3847PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3848 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3849 It now does.
3850
99a4b039
PH
3851PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3852 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3853
3854PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3855
4b233853
PH
3856PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3857 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3858 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3859 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3860 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3861
8857ccfd
PH
3862TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3863 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3864 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3865 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3866 or /domain=).
3867
433a2980
PH
3868PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3869 testing suite.
3870
3e46c1aa 3871
9a799bc0 3872
e3a311ba
TK
3873Exim version 4.53
3874-----------------
3875
3876TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3877 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3878
13b685f9
PH
3879PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3880
395ff96d
PH
3881PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3882
5b68f6e4
PH
3883PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3884 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3885 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3886
1ab52c69
PH
3887PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3888 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3889 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3890
b07e6aa3
PH
3891PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3892 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3893 operating systems.
3894
254e032f
PH
3895PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3896 ${stat: expansion item.
3897
3af76a81
PH
3898PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3899 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3900
2548ba04
PH
3901PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3902 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3903 file for comments.
3904
b6c6011d
PH
3905PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3906
cf39cf57
PH
3907PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3908 setting.
3909
f1513293
PH
3910PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3911 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3912
727549a4
PH
3913TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3914
af46795e
PH
3915PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3916 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3917 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3918 the end of the subprocess.
3919
d7b47fd0
PH
3920PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3921 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3922 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3923 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3924 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3925
ee744174
JJ
3926JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3927
b582ab87
PH
3928TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3929
41a13e0a
PH
3930PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3931 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3932
f625cc5a
PH
3933PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3934
3935PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3936
21f7af35
PH
3937PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3938 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3939 HP-UX compiler.
3940
31480e42
PH
3941PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3942
2d280592
PH
3943PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3944 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3945 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3946
7cd1141b
PH
3947PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3948 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3949
3950PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3951 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3952
750af86e
PH
3953PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3954 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3955
3956 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3957 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3958
3959 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3960 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3961 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3962 contributed by a Radius user.
3963
3964PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3965 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3966
4304270b
TK
3967TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3968 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3969
750af86e
PH
3970PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3971 available.
3972
64ffc24f
PH
3973PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3974 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3975 received.
3976
5dd9625b
PH
3977PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3978 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3979 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3980 header lines when this was not necessary.
3981
5591031b
PH
3982PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3983
ba18e66a
PH
3984PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3985 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3986 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3987 exists".
3988
9cec981f
PH
3989PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3990 -bV or -d is used.
3991
aa2b5c79
PH
3992PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3993 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3994 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3995 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3996
48a53b7f
PH
3997PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3998
1c59d63b
PH
3999PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4000
671012da
TK
4001TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4002
1509d3a8
PH
4003PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4004
4005PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4006 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4007 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4008 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4009 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4010 settings.
4011
4012PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4013
2fe1a124
PH
4014PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4015 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4016 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4017 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4018 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4019 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4020 which is clearly wrong.
4021
8800895a
PH
4022PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4023
ccfdb010
PH
4024PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4025 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4026 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4027 subsequently added.
4028
1130bfb0
PH
4029PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4030 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4031
ebcb507f
PH
4032PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4033
c35e155c
PH
4034PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4035 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4036
95d1f782
PH
4037PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4038 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4039
fd6de02e
PH
4040PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4041 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4042
58de37c5
PH
4043PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4044 recipients, not senders.
4045
261cf466
TF
4046TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4047 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4048
3ee512ff
PH
4049PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4050
e08c430f
PH
4051PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4052
bef5a11f
PH
4053PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4054 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4055 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4056 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4057
7546de58
TF
4058TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4059
e5d5a95f
TF
4060TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4061 clock is set back in time.
4062
2e88a017
TF
4063TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4064 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4065
a5f65aa4
TF
4066TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4067 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4068
e7726cbf
PH
4069PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4070 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4071 (see PH/47 above).
4072
a7fdad5b
TF
4073TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4074 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4075 header rewrites.
4076
6af56900
PH
4077PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4078 type ("H").
4079
0925ede6
PH
4080PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4081
66afa403
TF
4082TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4083 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4084 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4085
0154e85a
TF
4086TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4087 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4088 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4089 helo verification defer as a failure.
4090
16f12c76
PH
4091PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4092 actual error message.
4093
bbe902f0 4094
e5a9dba6
PH
4095Exim version 4.52
4096-----------------
4097
4098TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4099
22c3b60b
PH
4100PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4101 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4102 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4103 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4104
06a9b4b5
PH
4105TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4106
c1ac6996
PH
4107PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4108 can still be requested.
4109
9c7a242c
PH
4110PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4111 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4112 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4113 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4114
87ba3f5f
PH
4115TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4116 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4117 circumstances, but probably never did.
4118
4119PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4120 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4121 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4122 in the header line.
4123
29aba418
TF
4124TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4125
fe0dab11
TF
4126TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4127 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4128
11d337a4
TK
4129TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4130
4131TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4132
415c8f3b
PH
4133PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4134 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4135 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4136 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4137 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4138 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4139
958541e9
PH
4140PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4141 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4142 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4143 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4144 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4145 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4146
c206415f
TK
4147TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4148 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4149
2a4be8f9
PH
4150PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4151 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4152
1cba11c5
SC
4153SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4154 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4155
4c04137d 4156SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4157
4158SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4159
4160SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4161
4162SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4163
4164SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4165
4166SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4167
1005d00e
TK
4168TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4169
4170TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4171 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4172 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4173
4174TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4175 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4176 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4177 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4178
9b4768fa
PH
4179PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4180 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4181 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4182
4183PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4184 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4185 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4186 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4187
0d7eb84a
PH
4188PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4189 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4190 to be made).
4191
4192PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4193 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4194 should work with maildirs and everything.
4195
40727bee
TK
4196TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4197 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4198
554d2369
TF
4199TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4200 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4201
1f922db1
PH
4202PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4203 function for BDB 4.3.
4204
ef213c3b
PH
4205PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4206
8ac170f3
PH
4207PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4208 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4209 involved.
4210
b1c749bb
PH
4211PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4212 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4213 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4214 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4215 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4216 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4217
4aac9b49
PH
4218PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4219 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4220 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4221 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4222 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4223 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4224 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4225 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4226
294520c8
TK
4227TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4228 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4229 details.
4230
5bd022fe
PH
4231PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4232 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4233
90e9ce59
PH
4234PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4235 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4236 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4237 test. It is now used for both.
4238
5ea81592
PH
4239PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4240 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4241 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4242 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4243 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4244 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4245
c6c2dc1d
PH
4246PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4247 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4248 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4249 string_vformat().
4250
fffffe4c
PH
4251PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4252 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4253 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4254
9a26b6b2
PH
4255PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4256 experimental DomainKeys support:
4257
4258 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4259 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4260 the control was given.
4261
4262 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4263
4aee0225
PH
4264PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4265
32d668a5
PH
4266PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4267
8187c3f3
PH
4268PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4269 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4270 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4271 db.h files).
4272
ff790e47 4273PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4274 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4275 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4276 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4277 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4278 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4279 course.
ff790e47 4280
5417f6d1
PH
4281PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4282 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4283 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4284 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4285 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4286 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4287
59cf8544
PH
4288PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4289 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4290 do -d+all out of habit.
4291
e7ad8a65
PH
4292PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4293 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4294 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4295
ade42478
PH
4296PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4297 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4298 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4299 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4300 record types that Exim uses.
4301
182ad5cf
PH
4302PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4303 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4304 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4305 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4306 non-existent file that was broken.
4307
b0d9fc80
TK
4308TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4309 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4310
4311TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4312 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4313 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4314
4315TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4316
47c7a64a
PH
4317PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4318 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4319 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4320 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4321 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4322 same time.
4323
a388bce4
SC
4324SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4325 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4326 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4327 at a slight CPU cost.
4328
4329SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4330 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4331
4332SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4333 by Marc Sherman.
4334
0793e4ed
SC
4335SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4336
c58b88df
PH
4337PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4338 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4339
e7ad8a65 4340
7982096b
PH
4341Exim version 4.51
4342-----------------
4343
1a46a8c5
PH
4344TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4345 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4346
2f079f46 4347TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4348
4349TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4350
4351PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4352 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4353
4354PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4355 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4356 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4357 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4358 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4359 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4360 file.
4361
4362PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4363 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4364 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4365 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4366 these two options.
4367
4368PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4369 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4370 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4371 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4372 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4373 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4374 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4375 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4376
4377PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4378 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4379
4380PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4381 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4382 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4383 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4384 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4385 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4386
4387PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4388 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4389 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4390 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4391
4392PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4393 Finch).
4394
4395PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4396 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4397
49c2d5ea
PH
4398PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4399 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4400 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4401 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4402 message.
49c2d5ea 4403
bf759a8b
PH
4404PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4405
83364d30
PH
4406PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4407 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4408
7999bbd7
PH
4409PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4410 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4411 to what was transported.)
4412
7dbf77c9
PH
4413TF/01 Added $received_time.
4414
74e0617f
PH
4415PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4416 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4417 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4418 spamd_address settings.
4419
2f079f46
PH
4420PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4421 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4422 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4423 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4424 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4425
8c841523
PH
4426PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4427
7766a4f0
PH
4428PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4429 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4430 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4431 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4432 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4433
8b417f2c
PH
4434PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4435 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4436
901f42cb
PH
4437PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4438 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4439 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4440 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4441 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4442 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4443 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4444 for failure.
4445
f9b9210e
PH
4446PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4447 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4448 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4449 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4450 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4451 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4452 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4453 "input=".
4454
54cdb463
PH
4455PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4456
cf00dad6
PH
4457PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4458 driver and ACL definitions.
4459
acb1b346
PH
4460PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4461 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4462
c5ddb310
PH
4463PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4464 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4465 understands it better than I do:
4466
4467 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4468 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4469
4470 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4471 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4472 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4473 => three warnings about OTP not working
4474 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4475
4476 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4477 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4478 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4479 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4480 for each call.)
4481 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4482 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4483
4484 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4485 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4486 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4487
31619da6
PH
4488PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4489 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4490 specified.
4491
bebaf0fc
PH
4492PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4493 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4494 "Linux".
4495
475fe28a
PH
4496PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4497 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4498 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4499
4500 warn !verify = sender
4501 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4502
4503 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4504 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4505
7e8bec7a
PH
4506PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4507
4508 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4509 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4510
4511 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4512 nomenclature these days.)
4513
e4a89c47
PH
4514PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4515 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4516
5ca2a9a1
PH
4517PH/30 In these circumstances:
4518 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4519 . First host does not offer TLS;
4520 . First host accepts first address;
4521 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4522 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4523 . Second host accepts second address.
4524 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4525 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4526 address.
7e8bec7a 4527
c688b954
PH
4528PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4529 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4530 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4531 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4532 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4533
fed77020
PH
4534PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4535 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4536
7fe1560f
PH
4537PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4538 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4539
ebb6e6d5
PH
4540PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4541 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4542 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4543
9c4e8f60
PH
4544PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4545 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4546 overlooked.
4547
4548PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4549
d7174846
PH
4550PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4551 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4552 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4553 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4554 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4555 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4556 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4557
4558 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4559 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4560 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4561 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4562 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4563
4564 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4565 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4566 routed further.
4567
cfe75fc3
PH
4568PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4569 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4570 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4571 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4572 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4573 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4574
be22d70e
PH
4575PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4576
0612b098
PH
4577PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4578 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4579 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4580 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4581 printable escape sequences.
4582
2e0c1448
PH
4583PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4584 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4585 body only.
4586
447d236c
PH
4587PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4588 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4589 are as follows:
4590
4591 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4592 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4593 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4594 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4595 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4596
4597 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4598 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4599 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4600
d20976dc
PH
4601PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4602
f656d135
PH
4603PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4604 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4605 play with."
4606
2e2a30b4
PH
4607PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4608 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4609 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4610 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4611 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4612 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4613 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4614 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4615 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4616 the log output.
4617
9176e9f0
PH
4618PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4619 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4620 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4621 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4622 "make".
4623
7982096b 4624
bbe902f0
PH
4625A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4626----------------------------------------
4627
4628Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4629changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4630needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4631in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4632that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4633release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4634from 4.43.
4635
4636I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46374.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4638those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4639historical information.
4640
4641
f7b63901 4642Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4643-----------------
4644
5fe762f6
PH
4645 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4646
139059f6 4647 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4648 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4649
7086e875
PH
4650 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4651 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4652 place.
4653
35af9f61
PH
4654 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4655 filter fails to execute.
4656
b668c215
PH
4657 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4658 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4659 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4660 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4661 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4662
a494b1e1
PH
4663 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4664
4665 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4666 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4667 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4668 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4669
c5fcb476
PH
4670 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4671 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4672 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4673 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4674 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4675
69358f02
PH
4676 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4677
5be20824
PH
467810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4679
eb2c0248
PH
468011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4681 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4682 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4683 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4684
2a3eea10
PH
468512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4686 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4687 sender verification.
4688
468913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4690 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4691
23c7ff99
PH
469214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4693
4deaf07d
PH
469415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4695 connection timeout.
4696
926e1192
PH
469716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4698 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4699
650edc6f
PH
470017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4701 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4702
2c7db3f5
PH
470318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4704 information about exactly what failed.
4705
3d235903
PH
470619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4707
7c7ad977
PH
470820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4709 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4710 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4711
981756db
PH
471221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4713 It is now set to "smtps".
4714
d4eb88df
PH
471522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4716 ignore_target_hosts.
4717
471823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4719 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4720 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4721 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4722 "[x.x.x.x]".
4723
7d468ab8
PH
472424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4725 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4726 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4727
472825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4729 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4730 wake it up if nothing else does.
4731
62c0818f
PH
473226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4733 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4734 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4735 end up negative.
4736
26034054
PH
473727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4738 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4739
af66f652
PH
474028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4741
90af77f4
PH
474229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4743 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4744 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4745 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4746 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4747 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4748 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4749 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4750
d8ef3577
PH
475130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4752 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4753 than one IP address.
4754
5cb8cbc6
PH
475531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4756 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4757 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4758 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4759
14702f5b
PH
476032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4761 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4762 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4763 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4764 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4765 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4766
063b1e99
PH
476733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4768 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4769 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4770 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4771
652e1b65
PH
477234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4773 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4774 respected.
4775
6f0c9a4f
PH
477635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4777 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4778 $sender_host_address.
4779
33397d19
PH
478036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4781 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4782 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4783 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4784 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4785 very small.
4786
7bb56e1f
PH
478737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4788
4789 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4790 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4791
ea3bc19b
PH
4792 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4793 just the host names, not the priorities.
4794
4795 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4796 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4797 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4798
ea3bc19b 4799 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4800 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4801
0bcb2a0e
PH
480238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4803 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4804 domain.
4805
2ac0e484
PH
480639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4807
4e1fde53
PH
480840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4809 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4810
de365ded
PH
481141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4812 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4813 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4814
f05da2e8
PH
481542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4816
d6453af2
PH
481743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4818
f7b63901
PH
481944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4820
482145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4822 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4823 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4824 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4825 because the tests only now provoked it.
4826
a444213a
PH
482746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4828 (this can affect the format of dates).
4829
0ec020ea
PH
483047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4831 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4832 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4833 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4834
b1206957
PH
483548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4836
483749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4838 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4839 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4840 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4841
26dd5a95
PH
484250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4843 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4844 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4845
343b2385
PH
484651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4847 autoreply.
4848
1c5466b9
PH
484952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4850 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4851 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4852 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4853 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4854 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4855 is going on).
4856
55ee9ee3
PH
485753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4858 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4859 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4860 the line.
4861
d38f8232
PH
486254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4863 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4864 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4865
4866 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4867 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4868 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4869 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4870 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4871 so I produce this patch..."
4872
3295e65b
PH
4873 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4874 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4875 is not defined.
4876
7102e136
PH
487755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4878 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4879 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4880 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4881 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4882
3ca0ba97
PH
488356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4884
c2bcbe20
PH
488557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4886 long debug lines gets shown.
4887
18ce445d
PH
488858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4889 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4890
1f5b4c3d
PH
489159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4892
4893 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4894 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4895 of $primary_hostname.
4896
b975ba52
PH
489760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4898 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4899 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4900 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4901 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4902 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4903 by change 4.50/55 above.
4904
4905 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4906 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4907 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4908 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4909 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4910 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4911 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4912
491361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4914 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4915 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4916 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4917
17ffcae7
PH
491862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4919 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4920
d95f9fdb
PH
492163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4922 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4923 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4924 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4925 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4926
86b8287f
PH
492764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4928 This has been fixed.
4929
60dc5e56
PH
493065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4931 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4932 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4933 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4934 the caching.)
4935
533244af
PH
493666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4937
a5a28604
PH
493867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4939 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4940 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4941 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4942
7e634d24
PH
494368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4944 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4945
3e11c26b
PH
494669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4947 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4948 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4949
6729cf78
PH
495070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4951 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4952 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4953 message there.
4954
00f00ca5
PH
495571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4956 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4957 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4958
c9bdd01c
PH
495972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4960 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4961 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4962 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4963
d43194df
PH
496473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4965 during host lookups.
4966
fe5b5d0b
PH
496774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4968 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4969
4970 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4971
76a2d7ba
PH
497275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4973 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4974 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4975 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4976 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4977 background.
4978
497976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4980 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4981
04f7d5b9
PH
498277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4983 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4984 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4985
bc60667e
PH
498678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4987
bb6e88ff
PH
498879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4989 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4990 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4991 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4992 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4993 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4994 process earlier.
4995
1e70f85b
PH
499680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4997 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4998 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4999 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5000 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5001
500281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5003 tables).
5004
4e01f9d6
PH
500582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5006
1ee1cef2
PH
500783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5008 "vacation" handling.
5009
6e2b4ccc
PH
501084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5011 OS variants using glibc.
5012
8e669ac1
PH
501385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5014
495ae4b0 5015
bbe902f0
PH
5016----------------------------------------------------
5017See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5018----------------------------------------------------
5019
5020
5021Exim version 4.44
5022-----------------
5023
5024 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5025 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5026 transport
5027
5028 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5029 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5030 place.
5031
5032 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5033 filter fails to execute.
5034
5035 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5036 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5037 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5038 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5039 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5040
5041 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5042 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5043 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5044 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5045
5046 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5047 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5048 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5049 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5050 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5051
5052 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5053
5054 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5055 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5056 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5057 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5058
5059 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5060 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5061 sender verification.
5062
506310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5064 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5065
506611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5067 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5068
506912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5070 ignore_target_hosts.
5071
507213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5073 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5074 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5075 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5076 "[x.x.x.x]".
5077
507814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5079 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5080 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5081
508215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5083 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5084 wake it up if nothing else does.
5085
508616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5087 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5088 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5089 end up negative.
5090
509117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5092 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5093
ea3a6f44 509418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5095
509619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5097 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5098 empty pattern.
5099
510020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5101 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5102 one IP address.
5103
ea3a6f44
NM
510421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5105 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5106 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5107 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5108 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5109 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5110
ea3a6f44
NM
511122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5112 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5113 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5114
511523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5116 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5117 $sender_host_address.
5118
511924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5120
ea3a6f44
NM
512125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5122 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5123 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5124
512526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5126 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5127
ea3a6f44
NM
512827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5129 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5130
ea3a6f44
NM
513128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5132 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5133 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5134 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5135
513629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5137 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5138 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5139
ea3a6f44
NM
514030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5141 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5142 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5143 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5144
ea3a6f44
NM
514531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5146 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5147 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5148
ea3a6f44
NM
514931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5150 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5151
ea3a6f44
NM
515232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5153 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5154 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5155 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5156 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5157 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5158 is going on).
bbe902f0 5159
ea3a6f44
NM
516033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5161 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5162 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5163 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5164 CAN-2005-0021
5165
ea3a6f44
NM
516634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5167 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5168 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5169 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5170 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5171 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5172 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5173
5174 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5175 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5176 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5177 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5178 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5179 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5180 CAN-2005-0021
5181
ea3a6f44
NM
518235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5183 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5184 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5185 CAN-2005-0022
5186
ea3a6f44
NM
518736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5188 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5189 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5190 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5191 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5192
ea3a6f44
NM
519337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5194 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5195 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5196 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5197 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5198
ea3a6f44
NM
519938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5200 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5201 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5202 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5203 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5204
5205
495ae4b0
PH
5206Exim version 4.43
5207-----------------
5208
5209 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5210 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5211 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5212 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5213 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5214 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5215 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5216
5217 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5218 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5219 the delivery.
5220
5221 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5222
5223 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5224
5225 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5226 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5227 to local_scan().
5228
5229 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5230 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5231 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5232 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5233 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5234
5235 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5236 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5237
5238 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5239
5240 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5241
524210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5243 header_sender only.
5244
524511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5246 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5247
524812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5249 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5250 affecting debugging statements).
5251
525213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5253
525414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5255 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5256 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5257 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5258 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5259 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5260 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5261 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5262 after the received time, and all would be well.
5263
526415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5265 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5266 condition in an expansion string.
5267
526816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5269
527017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5271 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5272 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5273 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5274 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5275 job under whatever limits there are.
5276
527718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5278
527919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5280 space).
5281
528220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5283 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5284 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5285 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5286 return path is set.
5287
528821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5289 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5290 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5291 binary data in such strings.
5292
529322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5294
529523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5296 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5297 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5298 failure, which is pointless.
5299
530024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5301
530225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5303
530426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5305 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5306 Sender: header lines.
5307
530827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5309 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5310 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5311
531228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5313 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5314 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5315 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5316 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5317 happens.
5318
531929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5320 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5321 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5322 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5323 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5324
532530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5326 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5327 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5328 1024.
5329
533031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5331 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5332
533332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5334 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5335
533633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5337
533832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5339
534033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5341
534234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5343 syntax error.
5344
534535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5346
534736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5348
534937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5350 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5351 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5352 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5353
535438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5355 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5356
5357
5358Exim version 4.42
5359-----------------
5360
5361 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5362 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5363 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5364 it was not quoted.
5365 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5366 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5367 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5368 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5369 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5370 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5371
5372 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5373 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5374 verification failure".
5375
5376 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5377 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5378 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5379 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5380
5381 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5382 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5383 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5384 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5385 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5386 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5387 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5388 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5389 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5390 treated as a timeout.
5391
5392 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5393 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5394 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5395 not set for Exim filters).
5396
5397 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5398 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5399 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5400
5401 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5402
5403 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5404 try to make them clearer.
5405
5406 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5407 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5408
5409 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5410
5411 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5412
541310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5414 only the Cygwin environment.
5415
541611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5417 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5418 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5419 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5420 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5421
542212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5423 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5424 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5425 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5426 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5427 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5428 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5429
543013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5431 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5432
543314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5434
5435 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5436 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5437 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5438
5439 To: susanne@some.where
5440
5441 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5442 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5443 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5444 of addresses in From: header lines).
5445
5446 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5447 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5448 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5449
5450 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5451 treated as non-personal.
5452
5453 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5454 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5455
545615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5457
545816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5459
546017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5461 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5462 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5463
546418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5465 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5466
546719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5468 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5469 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5470 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5471 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5472 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5473
547420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5475 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5476 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5477 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5478 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5479 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5480 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5481 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5482
5483 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5484
548521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5486 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5487
548822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5489 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5490 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5491
549223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5493 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5494
549524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5496 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5497 rather than long int.
5498
549925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5500
550126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5502
5503
5504Exim version 4.41
5505-----------------
5506
5507 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5508 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5509 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5510 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5511 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5512 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5513
5514
5515Exim version 4.40
5516-----------------
5517
5518 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5519 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5520
5521 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5522 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5523 socklen_t is defined.
5524
5525 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5526 always exist.
5527
5528 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5529 configured.
5530
5531 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5532 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5533 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5534 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5535 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5536
5537 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5538 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5539 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5540 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5541
5542 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5543 of flapping under certain conditions.
5544
5545 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5546 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5547 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5548
5549 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5550
555110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5552
555311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5554 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5555 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5556 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5557
555812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5559 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5560 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5561 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5562 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5563 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5564 preserved with the message after it was received.
5565
556613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5567 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5568 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5569 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5570 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5571 test suite worked just fine.
5572
557314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5574 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5575 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5576
557715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5578 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5579 string.
5580
558116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5582 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5583 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5584 does not fully solve it.
5585
558617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5587 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5588 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5589 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5590 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5591
559218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5593 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5594 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5595
559619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5597 string, for example:
5598
5599 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5600
5601 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5602 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5603 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5604 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5605 the routers could not see them.
5606
560720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5608 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5609
561021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5611 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5612 output).
5613
561422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5615 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5616 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5617 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5618 that needed quoting.
5619
562023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5621 was not being matched caselessly.
5622
562324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5624 backslashes.
5625
562625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5627 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5628 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5629 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5630 when use_sender is false.
5631
563226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5633
563427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5635
563628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5637
563829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5639 the configuration file.
5640
564130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5642 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5643
564431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5645
564632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5647 bytes in the message body.
5648
564933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5650 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5651 delivery.
5652
565334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5654
565535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5656
565736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5658 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5659 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5660 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5661 another IP address.
5662
5663
5664Exim version 4.34
5665-----------------
5666
5667 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5668 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5669
5670 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5671 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5672 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5673 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5674 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5675
5676 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5677 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5678
5679 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5680 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5681 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5682
5683 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5684 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5685 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5686
5687 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5688 for routers.
5689
5690 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5691 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5692 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5693 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5694 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5695 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5696 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5697
5698
5699Exim version 4.33
5700-----------------
5701
5702 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5703 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5704 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5705 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5706 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5707 default (and expected) setting.
5708
5709 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5710 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5711 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5712 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5713
5714 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5715 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5716
5717 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5718 in domain lists.
5719
5720 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5721 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5722 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5723 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5724 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5725 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5726
5727 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5728 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5729 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5730
5731 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5732 part (NOT match_host).
5733
5734 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5735
5736 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5737 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5738 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5739 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5740 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5741 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5742 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5743 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5744 the same named file.
5745
574610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5747 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5748 when Exim is built.
5749
575011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5751 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5752 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5753 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5754 a host name.
5755
575612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5757 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5758 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5759
576013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5761
576214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5763
576415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5765
576616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5767 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5768
576917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5770 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5771 before starting the TLS session.
5772
577318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5774
577519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5776 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5777
577820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5779 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5780 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5781 colon in the middle).
5782
5783
5784Exim version 4.32
5785-----------------
5786
5787 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5788 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5789 multiple configurations are in use.
5790
5791 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5792 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5793 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5794 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5795 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5796 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5797
5798 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5799 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5800
5801 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5802 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5803 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5804
5805 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5806 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5807 occurs.
5808
5809 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5810 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5811
5812 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5813
5814 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5815 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5816
5817 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5818
5819 -prval:sval
5820
5821 is equivalent to
5822
5823 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5824
5825 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5826 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5827 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5828 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5829 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5830
583110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5832 Exim's behaviour:
5833
5834 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5835 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5836 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5837 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5838 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5839 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5840
5841 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5842 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5843 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5844 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5845 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5846 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5847 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5848 string.
5849
5850 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5851 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5852 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5853 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5854 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5855
585611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5857
585812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5859 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5860 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5861
586213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5863
586414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5865 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5866 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5867 information.
5868
586915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5870 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5871
587216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5873 Three changes have been made:
5874
5875 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5876 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5877 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5878 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5879 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5880
5881 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5882 been restored.
5883
5884 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5885 the modified behaviour.
5886
5887
5888Exim version 4.31
5889-----------------
5890
5891 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5892 Larry Rosenman.
5893
5894 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5895 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5896
5897 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5898 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5899 try to track down a specific problem.
5900
5901 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5902 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5903 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5904
5905 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5906 warning.
5907
5908 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5909 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5910 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5911 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5912 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5913 some earlier ones do not.
5914
5915 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5916
5917 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5918 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5919 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5920 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5921 address literals are enabled, of course).
5922
5923 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5924
592510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5926 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5927 by a command such as
5928
5929 exim -f "" ...
5930
5931 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5932
593311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5934
593512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5936 remained set. It is now erased.
5937
593813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5939 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5940
594114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5942 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5943 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5944 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5945 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5946 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5947 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5948 appropriate error code.
5949
595015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5951 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5952 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5953 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5954 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5955 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5956
595716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5958 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5959 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5960
596117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5962 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5963 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5964 terminate the header.
5965
596618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5967 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5968 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5969
597019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5971 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5972 (4.30/29). In particular:
5973
5974 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5975 imposed.
5976
5977 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5978 to write a maildirsize file.
5979
5980 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5981 the transport, the new value overrides.
5982
5983 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5984 count.
5985
598620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5987 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5988 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5989 space or a tab.
5990
599121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5992 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5993 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5994 the fallback hosts.
5995
599622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5997 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5998 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5999
600023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6001 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6002 using a union.
6003
600424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6005 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6006 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6007
600825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6009
601026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6011
601227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6013
601428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6015 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6016 become corrupted.
6017
601829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6019 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6020 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6021 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6022 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6023 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6024 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6025 too great.
6026
602730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6028 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6029 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6030 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6031 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6032 incorrectly.
6033
603431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6035 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6036 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6037 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6038 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6039 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6040 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6041 cached value only when the same options are set.
6042
604332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6044
604533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6046 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6047 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6048 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6049 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6050
605134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6052 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6053 it is clearly obsolete.
6054
605535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6056 transport.
6057
605836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6059 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6060 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6061 times.
6062
606337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6064 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6065 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6066 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6067 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6068
606938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6070 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6071 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6072 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6073
607439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6075
6076 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6077
6078 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6079 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6080 2^31.
6081
608240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6083 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6084 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6085 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6086 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6087 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6088 $localpart_data.
6089
609041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6091 with the -f command-line option.
6092
609342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6094 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6095 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6096 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6097 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6098 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6099
610043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6101 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6102 line.
6103
610444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6105 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6106 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6107 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6108 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6109 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6110 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6111 buffer is too small.
6112
611345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6114 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6115
611646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6117 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6118 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6119 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6120 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6121 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6122 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6123 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6124 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6125
612647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6127 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6128 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6129
613048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6131 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6132 ACL").
6133
613449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6135 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6136 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6137 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6138 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6139
614050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6141 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6142 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6143 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6144 is set.
6145
614651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6147
614852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6149
615053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6151 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6152
615354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6154 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6155 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6156
615755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6158 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6159 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6160 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6161 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6162
616356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6164 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6165 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6166 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6167 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6168 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6169 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6170
617157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6172 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6173 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6174 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6175 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6176 the test of how many are available.
6177
617858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6179 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6180 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6181 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6182 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6183 new message is started.
6184
618559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6186 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6187
618860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6189 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6190
619161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6192 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6193 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6194 is no long logged.
6195
619662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6197 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6198 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6199 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6200 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6201 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6202 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6203
620463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6205 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6206 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6207 interpreted as octal.
6208
620964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6210 setting.
6211
621265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6213 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6214 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6215 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6216 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6217 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6218
621966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6220 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6221 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6222 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6223
6224 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6225 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6226 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6227 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6228
6229 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6230 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6231 is a bug fix.
6232
6233 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6234 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6235
623667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6237
623868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6239 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6240 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6241 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6242
624369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6244 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6245 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6246 supplied", which is not helpful.
6247
624870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6249 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6250 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6251
625271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6253 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6254 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6255 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6256 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6257 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6258 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6259 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6260
626172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6262 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6263 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6264 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6265 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6266
626773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6268 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6269 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6270 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6271 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6272 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6273
627474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6275 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6276 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6277
627875. Added write_rejectlog option.
6279
628076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6281 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6282 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6283 variables.
6284
628577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6286
628778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6288 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6289 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6290 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6291 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6292 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6293 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6294 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6295
629679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6297 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6298 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6299 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6300 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6301
630280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6303 Haardt.
6304
630581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6306 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6307 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6308 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6309 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6310 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6311 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6312 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6313 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6314
6315
6316Exim version 4.30
6317-----------------
6318
6319 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6320 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6321 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6322
6323 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6324 fixed.
6325
6326 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6327 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6328 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6329
6330 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6331 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6332 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6333 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6334 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6335 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6336
6337 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6338 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6339 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6340 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6341 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6342 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6343 the Exim test suite.
6344
6345 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6346 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6347 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6348 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6349
6350 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6351 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6352 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6353 specify it in this variable.
6354
6355 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6356 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6357 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6358 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6359
6360 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6361 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6362 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6363 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6364
6365 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6366 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6367 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6368 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6369 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6370
6371 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6372
637310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6374 they are logged.
6375
637611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6377 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6378 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6379 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6380 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6381
638212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6383 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6384
638513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6386 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6387 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6388 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6389 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6390
639114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6392 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6393
639415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6395 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6396 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6397
639816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6399 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6400
640117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6402 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6403
640418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6405 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6406 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6407
640819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6409 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6410
641120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6412 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6413 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6414 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6415
641621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6417
641822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6419 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6420 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6421 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6422
642323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6424
642524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6426 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6427
642825. Added .include_if_exists.
6429
643026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6431 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6432 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6433 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6434 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6435 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6436
643727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6438
643928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6440 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6441 this.
6442
644329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6444
644530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6446 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6447
6448 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6449 550 Sender verify failed
6450
6451 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6452 the final line of the response.
6453
645431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6455 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6456 all other user lookups.
6457
645832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6459 delivery time.
6460
646133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6462 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6463 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6464 result into an int without checking.
6465
646634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6467 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6468 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6469
647035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6471 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6472 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6473 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6474
647536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6476 correctly.
6477
647837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6479 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6480
648138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6482 to the empty sender.
6483
648439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6485 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6486 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6487 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6488 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6489 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6490 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6491 panic log.
6492
649340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6494 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6495 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6496 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6497 used.
6498
649941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6500 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6501
650242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6503 timestamps.
6504
650543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6506 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6507
650844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6509
651045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6511 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6512 logs.
6513
651446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6515 as soon as it is encountered.
6516
651747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6518
651948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6520 rewritten to "<>".
6521
652249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6523 recognizes a tab character.
6524
652550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6526 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6527 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6528 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6529
653051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6531
653252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6533 crash.
6534
653553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6536
653754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6538
653955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6540 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6541 2822.
6542
654356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6544 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6545 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6546 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6547 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6548
654957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6550 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6551
655258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6553 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6554 list (.included file names were always shown).
6555
655659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6557 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6558 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6559 root at that time.
6560
656160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6562 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6563
656461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6565
656662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6567
656863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6569
657064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6571 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6572 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6573 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6574 failures to open the logs.
6575
657665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6577 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6578 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6579 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6580 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6581 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6582 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6583
6584
6585Exim version 4.24
6586-----------------
6587
6588 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6589 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6590 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6591 change 4.23/1.
6592
6593 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6594 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6595 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6596
6597 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6598 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6599 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6600
6601 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6602 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6603 causing some misleading effects.
6604
6605 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6606 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6607 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6608
6609 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6610 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6611 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6612 queue-runner function directly.
6613
6614
6615Exim version 4.23
6616-----------------
6617
6618 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6619 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6620
6621 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6622 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6623 was always written to the default place.
6624
6625 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6626 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6627 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6628
6629 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6630
6631 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6632
6633 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6634 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6635 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6636
6637 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6638 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6639 must start.
6640
6641 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6642 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6643 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6644
6645 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6646 command line option is disabled.
6647
6648 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6649 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6650
6651 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6652
6653 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6654
6655 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6656 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6657
665810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6659
666011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6661 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6662 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6663 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6664 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6665 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6666
666712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6668 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6669 timeout.
6670
667113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6672 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6673
667414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6675 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6676
667715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6678 received was valid base64.
6679
668016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6681 name of the variable that was being set.
6682
668317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6684
668518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6686 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6687 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6688 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6689 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6690 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6691
669219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6693
669420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6695 nor realm was specified.
6696
669721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6698 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6699 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6700 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6701
670222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6703 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6704 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6705
670623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6707 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6708 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6709
671024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6711 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6712 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6713 some systems use these upper case variants.
6714
671525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6716 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6717 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6718 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6719
672026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6721
672227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6723 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6724
672528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6726 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6727 expansion variable.
6728
672929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6730
673130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6732 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6733 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6734 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6735
673631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6737 using it.
6738
673932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6740 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6741 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6742
674333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6744 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6745
674634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6747 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6748 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6749 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6750
675135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6752 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6753 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6754
675536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6756
675737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6758 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6759 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6760 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6761 aborted.
6762
676338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6764 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6765 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6766
676739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6768
676940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6770 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6771
677241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6773 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6774
677542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6776 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6777 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6778 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6779 when emails are that large.
6780
6781
6782
6783Exim version 4.22
6784-----------------
6785
6786 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6787 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6788
6789 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6790 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6791 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6792
6793 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6794 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6795 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6796
6797 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6798 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6799 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6800 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6801 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6802
6803 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6804 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6805 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6806 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6807 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6808 ever.
6809
6810 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6811 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6812 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6813 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6814 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6815 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6816 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6817 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6818 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6819 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6820 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6821 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6822 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6823 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6824
6825 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6826 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6827 parameterised it.
6828
6829 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6830 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6831 error should be diagnosed.
6832
6833 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6834 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6835 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6836 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6837 appeared instead of "NULL".
6838
683910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6840 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6841 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6842 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6843 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6844 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6845 proceeds).
6846
6847 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6848 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6849 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6850
6851
6852Exim version 4.21
6853-----------------
6854
6855 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6856 or receiver verification errors.
6857
6858 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6859 name.
6860
6861 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6862 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6863 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6864 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6865
6866 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6867 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6868 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6869 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6870 shouldn't happen again.
6871
6872 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6873 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6874 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6875
6876 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6877 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6878
6879 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6880
6881 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6882 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6883
6884 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6885 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6886 RFC.
6887
688810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6889 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6890 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6891
689211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6893 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6894 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6895 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6896
689712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6898 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6899 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6900 to define what should happen).
6901
690213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6903 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6904 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6905
690614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6907
690815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6909
691016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6911 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6912
4c04137d 691317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6914 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6915 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6916 structure in all cases.
6917
6918 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6919 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6920 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6921 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6922
692318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6924 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6925 domain name.
6926
692719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6928 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6929
693020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6931 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6932
693321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6934 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6935 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6936
693722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6938 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6939 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6940
694123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6942 the book and for uniformity.
6943
694424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6945
694625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6947 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6948 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6949 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6950 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6951 non-existent command as the problem.
6952
695326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6954 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6955 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6956
695727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6958
695928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6960 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6961 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6962
696329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6964 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6965 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6966 timestamps using strftime().
6967
696830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6969 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6970
697132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6972 transport-time rewrites.
6973
697433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6975 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6976 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6977 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6978
697934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6980 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6981
698235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6983 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6984 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6985 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6986 comma and a space.
6987
698836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6989 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6990 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6991 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6992 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6993 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6994 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6995
699637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6997 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6998 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6999 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7000 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7001
700238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7003 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7004 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7005 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7006 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7007 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7008 remaining text gets split now.
7009
701039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7011 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7012 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7013 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7014
701540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7016 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7017 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7018 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7019 $return_path.
7020
702141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7022 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7023 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7024 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7025 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7026 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7027 passed through if needed.
7028
702942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7030 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7031 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7032 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7033 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7034 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7035
703643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7037 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7038 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7039 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7040 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7041
704244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7043 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7044 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7045 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7046 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7047
704845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7049 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7050 noticed.
7051
705246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7053 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7054 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7055 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7056 mayhem of various kinds.
7057
705847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7059 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7060 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7061 the right test for positive values.
7062
706348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7064 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7065 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7066 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7067 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7068 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7069 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7070 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7071 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7072 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7073 envelope.
7074
707549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7076 module.
7077
707850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7079 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7080 forbidding it.
7081
708251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7083 the existing equality matching.
7084
708552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7086 dealing with inode numbers.
7087
708853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7089 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7090 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7091
709254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7093 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7094 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7095 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7096 local_scan().
7097
709855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7099 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7100 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7101 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7102 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7103 relay addresses has also been removed.
7104
710556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7106
710757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7108 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7109 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7110
711158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7112 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7113 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7114 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7115 processing applies to CR:
7116
7117 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7118 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7119
7120 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7121 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7122 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7123 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7124
712559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7126 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7127 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7128
712960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7130 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7131 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7132 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7133 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7134 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7135 arisen.
7136
713761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7138 program routers.
7139
714062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7141 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7142 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7143 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7144 adds:
7145
7146 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7147
7148 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7149
7150 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7151
715263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7153 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7154 not considered personal.
7155
715664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7157
715865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7159
716066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7161
716267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7163 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7164 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7165 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7166 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7167 header lines, and spool format errors.
7168
716968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7170 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7171 for more flexibility.
7172
717369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7174 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7175 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7176
717770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7178 Sabourenkov.
7179
718071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7181 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7182 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7183 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7184 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7185 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7186 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7187 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7188 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7189
719072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7191 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7192 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7193 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7194 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7195 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7196 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7197
719873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7199 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7200 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7201
720274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7203 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7204 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7205 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7206 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7207 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7208 instead of killing the process with assert().
7209
721075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7211 than Unicode encoding.
7212
721376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7214 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7215 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7216 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7217
721877. Added process_log_path.
7219
722078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7221 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7222
722379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7224 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7225
722680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7227 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7228 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7229
723081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7231 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7232 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7233 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7234 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7235 were applied:
7236
7237 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7238 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7239 as invalid.
7240
724182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7242 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7243 they will be used during message reception.
7244
7245
7246Exim version 4.20
7247-----------------
7248
7249The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7250
7251****