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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
98b98887 66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
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90HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
91 with the $config_file variable.
92
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93JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
94 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
95 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
96 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
97 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
98
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99GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
100 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
101 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
102 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
103 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
104
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105JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
106
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107JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
108 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
109 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
110 list order is no longer honoured.
111
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112JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
113 for DKIM processing.
114
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115JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
116 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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118JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
119 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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120 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
121 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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123JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
124 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
125
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126JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
127 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
128
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129JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
130 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
131
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132JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
133
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134JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
135 cached by the daemon.
136
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137JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
138 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
139
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140JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
141 keys are given for lookup.
142
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143JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
144 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
145 only supported when built with TLS support.
146
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147JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
148 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
149 server-side so match that on older versions.
150
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154JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
155 expanded.
156
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157JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
158
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159JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
160 it.
161
01a4a5c5 162JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 163 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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164 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
165 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
166
cb1d7830 167JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 168 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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169 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
170
610ff438 171JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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172 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
173 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
174 TLS connections
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176JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
177 sites use this now.
178
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179JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
180 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
181 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
182 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
183 have a dsn_lasthop option.
184
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185JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
186 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 187 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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189JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
190
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191JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
192 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
193
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194JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
195 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
196
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197JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
198 /defer_ok option.
199
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200JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
201 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
202
fd4d8871 203JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 204 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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205 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
206
207JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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208 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
209 specify a port-range.
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211JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
212 timeout value per server.
213
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214JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
215 now have the list separator specified.
216
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217JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
218 option values.
219
82c0c8ea 220JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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221 under OpenSSL.
222
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223JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
224
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225JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
226 rather than the verbs used.
227
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228JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
229 from 255 to 1024 chars.
230
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231JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
232
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233HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
234 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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236JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
237 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
238
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239HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
240 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
241
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242JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
243
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244JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
245
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246JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
247 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
248 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
249 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
250
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251JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
252
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253JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
254 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
255
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256JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
257 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
258
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259JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
260
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261JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
262
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263JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
264
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265JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
266 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
267
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268JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
269 added for tls authenticator.
270
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274TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
275 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
276 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
277 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
278 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
279 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
280 the script parsing/test process like normal.
281
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282TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
283 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
284 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
285 function when detected.
286
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287JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
288 cause callback expansion.
289
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290TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
291 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
292 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
293 instead of bool when processing it.
294
0f06b4f2 295JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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296 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
297
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298JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
299
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300JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
301
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302TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
303
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304TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
305 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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307JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
308 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
309 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
310 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
311 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
312 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
313
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314JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
315 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
316 exceeded it.
317
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318JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
319 version 3.3.6 or later.
320
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321JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
322 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
323 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 324 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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325 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
326 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
327 option is defined.
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329TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
330 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
331
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332JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
333 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
334 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
335 matches.
336
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337JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
338 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
339 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
340
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341JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
342 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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343
344JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
345 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
346 syntax errors.
347
3394b36a 348JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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350JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
351 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
352
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353TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
354 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
355 tarball.
356
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357JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
358
359JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
360 Bug 1561.
361
362JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
363 output list separator was used.
364
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368TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
369 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
370 return.
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372JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
373 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
374
375JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
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377TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 378 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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384TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
385
386 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
387 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
388 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
389 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
390 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
391 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
392
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393TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
394 utilities have not been installed.
395
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396JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
397 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
398
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399TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
400 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
401
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402TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
403 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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404 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
405 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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407JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
408
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409TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
410 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
411
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412PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
413 not dns_use_dnssec.
414
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415JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
416
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417TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
418 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
419 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
420
8ddef691 421TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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422 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
423 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
424 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
425 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 426 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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428JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
429
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430JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
431 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
432
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433JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
434 failed delivery.
435
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436JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
437
511a6c14 438JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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440JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
441 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
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443JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
444 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
445
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446TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
447
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448JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
449
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450JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
451 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
452
453 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
454 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
455 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
456
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457TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
458 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
459 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
460 analysis.
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462JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
463
8c51eead 464JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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465 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
466 lookup).
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468TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
469 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
470 Schlichting.
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fd3b6a4a 472JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 473 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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475TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
476 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
477
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478JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
479
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480TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
481 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
482 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
483
9d1c15ef
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484JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
485 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
486
44662487
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487JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
488 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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489 hosts_request_ocsp.
490
ed3bba5f 491JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 492 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 493 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 494
8ccd00b1
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495JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
496
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497TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
498 Christian Aistleitner.
499
f2de3a33
JH
500JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
501
6eb02f88
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502TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
503 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
504
00bff6f6
JH
505JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
506 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
507
071c51f7
JH
508JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
509 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
510
a6d4c44e
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511TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
512 support and error reporting did not work properly.
513
3ae173e7
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514TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
515 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
516
c13d09b8
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517TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
518 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
519 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
520
0df4ab80
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521JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
522
66be95e0
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523PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
524 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
525 Jasper Wallace.
526
1bd0d12b
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527JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
528
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529TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
530 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
531 CVE-2014-2972
532
fd3b6a4a 533
2c422e6f 534Exim version 4.82
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536
537PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
538
12f69989
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539PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
540 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
541
54c90be1
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542PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
543 by GnuTLS.
544
1f4a55da
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545PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
546 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
547 routines.
548
13363eba 549PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 550
66645890 551PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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552 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
553 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
554 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
555 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 556
a3fb9793 557PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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558 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
559 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
560 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 561 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 562 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 563
d27f98fe 564TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 565
6822b909
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566TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
567
e7568d51
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568TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
569 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
570
ae0e32ee 571TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 572 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 573 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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574
575TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 576
e2658fff
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577TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
578
83712b39
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579TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
580 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
581
976b7e9f
JH
582JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
583
be4a1376
JH
584JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
585
ec4b68e5
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586PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
587
d7148a07
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588NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
589 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 590
585121e2 591JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 592
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593PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
594 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
595 function.
a5f239e4 596
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597PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
598 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
599
bef3ea7f
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600JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
601 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
602 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 603
846726c5
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604JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
605
3a796370
JH
606JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
607
ea722490 608JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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609 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
610
b1b05573
JH
611JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
612 Bugzilla 884.
613
362145b5
JH
614JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
615 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
616
3c0a92dc
JH
617JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
618 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
619
6d7c6175
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620PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
621 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 622 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 623
6f123593
JH
624JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
625 authenticators.
626
c8e2fc1e
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627JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
628 for control.
629
005ac57f
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630PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
631
3f1df0e3
PP
632PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
633 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
634 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
635 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
636
67bd1ab3
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637TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
638
639 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
640 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
641 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
642 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
643 the retry rules.
644
645 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
646 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
647 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
648
649 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
650 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
651 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
652 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
653
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654 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
655 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
656 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
657 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
658 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
659 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
660 delivery, as in LMTP.
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661
662 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
663 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
664
326cdc37
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665TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
666
667 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
668
669 Resent-From: f
670
671 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
672 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
673 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
674 username as equal to the username.
675
676 This change corrects that bug.
677
f62514b3
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678GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
679 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
680 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
681
eb505532
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682TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
683
14c7b357
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684PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
685 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
686 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
687 NULL dereference and crash.
688
94eaf700
PP
689JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
690
6f5a440a
PP
691PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
692 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
693 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
694
514ee161
SC
695SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
696
fd98a5c6
JH
697JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
698 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
699 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
700 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
701 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
702 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
703 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
704 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
705 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
706 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
707 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
708
035c7f1e
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709PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
710 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
711
ff284120
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712PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
713 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
714 Bugzilla 880.
715
26e72755
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716PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
717 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
718 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
719 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
720 an empty string is now equivalent.
721
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722PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
723 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
724 not performing validation itself.
725
700d22f3
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726PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
727 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
728
fcc8e047
JH
729JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
730 Bugzilla 321, 823.
731
7142daca
PP
732TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
733
8c020188
PP
734PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
735 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
736 other false fix of the same issue.
737 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
738 Bugzilla 1363.
739
d13cdd30
PP
740PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
741 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
742
e2fbf4a2
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743PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
744 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
745 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
746
f4c1088b
PP
747PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
748 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
749 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
750
c5c2182f
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751TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
752
73431ca9
JH
753JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
754
2d07a215
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755TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
756 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
757
a30a8861
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758TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
759 Alexander Miroch.
760
33382dd9
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761TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
762 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
763 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
764 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
765 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 766
046172e6
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767TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
768 the src/util/ subdirectory.
769
581d7bee 770TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 771 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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772 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
773
774TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
775 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
776 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
777 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
778
237b2cf2
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779TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
780
9fc5a352
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781TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
782 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
783 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 784
b10e4ec2
TL
785TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
786
e2cebd74
TL
787TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
788 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
789 interaction.
790
791TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
792 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
793
2519e60d
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794TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
795 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
796
e78e6ecf 797
4263f395
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798Exim version 4.80.1
799-------------------
800
801PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
802 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 803 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 804
ea722490 805
b1770b6e 806Exim version 4.80
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808
809PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
810 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
811 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
812
23c7e742
NM
813NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
814
b322aac8
NM
815NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
816 improved.
817
4a891427
NM
818NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
819
c1e794ba 820PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 821
97753960
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822PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
823
824PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
825 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
826
df6303fa
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827PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
828 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
829
7e6a8985
PP
830PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
831 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
832
f1e05cc7 833PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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834 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
835 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 836
4c287009
PP
837PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
838
b98bb9ac
PP
839PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
840 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
841
4a6a987a
PP
842PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
843
c45dd180 844PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 845
7db8d074
PP
846PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
847 non-compliant senders.
848 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
849
eae0036b 850NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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851 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
852 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
853
dec5017e
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854PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
855 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
856 in spool file corruption.
857
c80c5570
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858PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
859 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
860 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
861 "Got SSL error 2".
862
076b11e2
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863TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
864 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
865 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
866
5407bfff
JH
867JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
868 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
869
9e45c72b
PP
870JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
871
e74376d8
PP
872PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
873 diagnostics.
874 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
875
da3ad30d
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876PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
877 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
878 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
879
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880PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
881 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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882 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
883 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 884
ef840681
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885PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
886 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
887
5bfb4cdf
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888PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
889 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
890 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
891 resolver implementation change.
892
c6e95d22
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893PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
894 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
895
9cbad13b
PP
896PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
897
9ee44efb
PP
898PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
899
6a6084f8
PP
900PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
901 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
902
12dd53c7
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903PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
904 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
905
9e45c72b 906JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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907 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
908
17c76198
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909PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
910 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
911 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
912 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 913 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 914
53947857 915PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 916
eae0036b 917PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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918 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
919 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 920
9e45c72b 921JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 922
7390e768
PP
923PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
924 read-only, out of scope).
925 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
926
08488c86
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927PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
928 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
929 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
930 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
931
6475bd82
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932PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
933
81f91683
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934PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
935 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
936 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
937 real issues in debug logging.
938
5779e6aa
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939PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
940 assignment on my part. Fixed.
941
3375e053
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942PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
943 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
944 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
945
946PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
947 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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948 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
949 problems.
3375e053 950
9d26b8c0
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951PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
952 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
953
57eb9e91 954PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
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955 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
956 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
957 needs to override this, it can.
958
16880d1a
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959PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
960 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
961 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
962
a799883d
PP
963PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
964 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
965 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
966 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
967
3ecab157 968PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 969
0599f9cf 970
867fcbf5
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971Exim version 4.77
972-----------------
973
974PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
975 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
976
f1a29782
TF
977TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
978
ab42bd23
TK
979TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
980 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 981
0ca0cf52
TF
982TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
983 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
984
921b12ca
TF
985TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
986 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
987 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
988
989 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
990 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
991 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
992 not safe for signals.
993
994 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
995 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
996 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
997 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
998 exiwhat.
999
c99ce5c9
TF
1000TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1001
1002 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1003 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1004 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1005 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1006 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1007
1008 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1009 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1010 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1011 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1012 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1013 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1014
1015 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1016 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1017 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1018 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1019
1020 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1021 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1022 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1023 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1024
1025 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1026 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1027 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1028 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1029 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1030 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1031 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1032 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1033 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1034
1035 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1036 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1037 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1038 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1039
1040 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1041 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1042 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1043 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1044 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1045 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1046 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1047 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1048 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1049 details in the main documentation.
1050
3634fc25
TF
1051TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1052
792e8a19
TF
1053TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1054
5901f0ab
TF
1055TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1056 repository when doing development or release builds.
1057
7f2a2a43
PP
1058PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1059 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1060
061b7ebd
PP
1061PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1062 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1063 Bugzilla 97.
1064
e12f8c32
PP
1065PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1066
9e949f00 1067PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1068 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1069
1070PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1071 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1072
555ae6af 1073PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1074 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1075
1076PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1077 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1078
6f7fe114
PP
1079PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1080 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1081
c566dd90
PP
1082PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1083 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1084 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1085 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1086
d6cc7c78 1087PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1088 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1089 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1090
0d0e4455
PP
1091PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1092
3399bb60 1093PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1094
1095PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1096 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1097
0ca0cf52 1098
10906672
PP
1099Exim version 4.76
1100-----------------
1101
1102PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1103
754a0503
PP
1104PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1105 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1106
c0c7b2da
PP
1107PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1108
e97d1f08
PP
1109PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1110
084c1d8c
PP
1111PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1112 Bugzilla 1098.
1113
4e7ee012
PP
1114PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1115 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1116
c8d52a00
PP
1117TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1118 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1119
54e7ce4a
PP
1120PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1121 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1122
5ee6f336
PP
1123PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1124 Bugzilla 1104.
1125
c8d52a00 1126TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1127 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1128
1129TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1130 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1131 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1132 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1133
1134PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1135 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1136
10906672 1137
aa097c4c
NM
1138Exim version 4.75
1139-----------------
1140
4c9ef03a 1141NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1142 Bugzilla 1073
1143
7f3d9eff
TF
1144TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1145 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1146 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1147
159f52d2
TF
1148TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1149 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1150
0cc9542a
PP
1151PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1152 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1153 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1154
f7274286
PP
1155PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1156 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1157
7b797365
PP
1158PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1159 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1160
caacae52
NM
1161NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1162 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1163
09dcaba9
NM
1164NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1165 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1166
bc19a55b
PP
1167PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1168 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1169
bd4c9759
NM
1170NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1171 Fixes bug 943.
1172
b72aab72
PP
1173PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1174 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1175
2fe76745
PP
1176PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1177 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1178
76aa570c
PP
1179PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1180 SQL string expansion failure details.
1181 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1182
f1e5fef5
PP
1183PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1184 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1185
4d805ee9
PP
1186PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1187 extern declarations in function scope.
1188 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1189
cd59ab18
PP
1190PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1191 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1192 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1193 a kernel bug).
1194
332f5cf3
PP
1195PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1196 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1197
29cfeb94
PP
1198PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1199 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1200
660242ad
PP
1201PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1202 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1203
bc4bc4c5
PP
1204PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1205 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1206
2e64baa9
NM
1207NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1208 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1209 Dennis Davis.
1210
bddd7526
PP
1211PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1212
6bac1a9a
PP
1213PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1214
552193f0
NM
1215NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1216 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1217
1b587e48
TF
1218TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1219 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1220
aa097c4c 1221
8c07b69f
TF
1222Exim version 4.74
1223-----------------
1224
1225TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1226 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1227
c0ea85ab
TF
1228TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1229 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1230
0761d44e
TF
1231TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1232
0a349494
PP
1233DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1234 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1235 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1236
1237PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1238 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1239 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1240
fea24b2e
PP
1241PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1242 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1243 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1244 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1245
6545de78
PP
1246PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1247 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1248 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1249 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1250
1670ef10
PP
1251PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1252 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1253 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1254 arbitrary files.
1255
c0886197
PP
1256PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1257 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1258
b7487bce
PP
1259PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1260 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1261 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1262 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1263 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1264
8c07b69f 1265
97fd1e48 1266Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1267-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1268
1269PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1270 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1271 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1272
6901c596
PP
1273PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1274 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1275
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1276JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1277
77bb000f
PP
1278PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1279
a29e5231
PP
1280PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1281
ec5a0394 1282PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1283
55c75993
PP
1284PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1285
453a6645 1286PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1287 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1288 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1289 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1290
8544e77a
PP
1291PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1292 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1293 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1294 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1295 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1296
83e029d5
PP
1297PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1298
ed7f7860
PP
1299PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1300
7d9f747b
PP
1301PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1302
4b2241d2
PP
1303PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1304
10385c15
PP
1305PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1306
dbc4b90d
PP
1307PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1308
532be449
PP
1309PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1310
6a8de854 1311PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1312 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1313 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1314
5dc43717
JJ
1315JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1316
1317JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1318 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1319
3346ab01
PP
1320PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1321 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1322
491fab4c
PP
1323PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1324 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1325 Notification from John Horne.
1326
13eb9497
PP
1327PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1328 compatible.
1329
1330PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1331 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1332 it normally works.
1333
7f36d675
DW
1334DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1335 access.
1336
c1d94452
DW
1337DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1338 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1339 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1340
e2f5dc15
DW
1341DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1342 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1343 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1344 configuration file.
1345
cd25e41d
DW
1346DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1347 option (effectively making it always true).
1348
261dc43e
DW
1349DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1350 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1351
fa32850b
DW
1352DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1353 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1354
79d4bc3d
PP
1355PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1356 run-time user, instead of root.
1357
43236f35 1358PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1359 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1360
fb08281f
DW
1361DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1362 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1363 arguments.
3346ab01 1364
74935b98
DW
1365DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1366 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1367 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1368
90b6341f
DW
1369DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1370
57730b52
ML
1371NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1372
66581d1e 1373
465e92cf
JJ
1374Exim version 4.72
1375-----------------
1376
453a6645
PP
1377JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1378 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1379 typos
465e92cf 1380
453a6645
PP
1381JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1382 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1383 (Finput)
edae0343 1384
9bd3e22c
NM
1385NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1386 Patch from Alain Williams
1387
bb576ff7
NM
1388NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1389
5a1a5845
NM
1390NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1391 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1392
981a9fad
NM
1393NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1394 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1395
7fc497ee
NM
1396NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1397
1a41defa
JJ
1398JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1399
a466095c 1400NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1401 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1402
94a6bd0b
NM
1403TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1404
1405TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1406
1407MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1408 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1409 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1410
c1b141a8
NM
1411NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1412 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1413
b26eacf1 1414NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1415 Patch by Simon Arlott
1416
179c5980 1417PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1418 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1419
9bd3e22c 1420
7c6d71af
NM
1421Exim version 4.71
1422-----------------
1423
7d9f747b 1424TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1425
f013fb92
NM
1426NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1427
0eb8eedd
NM
1428NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1429
663ee6d9
NM
1430NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1431
177ebd9b
NM
1432NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1433
7c6d71af 1434
210f147e
NM
1435Exim version 4.70
1436-----------------
1437
cdd3bb85 1438TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1439 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1440
1441TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1442 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1443 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1444
1445TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1446 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1447 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1448
1449TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1450 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1451
210f147e
NM
1452NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1453 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1454 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1455 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1456
deafd5b3
NM
1457NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1458 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1459 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1460
089793a4
TF
1461TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1462
5f16ca82
TF
1463TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1464
dae9d94e 1465NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1466 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1467
7d9f747b 1468NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1469
06864c44
TF
1470TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1471 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1472 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1473 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1474
65a7d8c3 1475NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1476 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1477
23510047 1478TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1479
7d9f747b 1480NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1481
7d8eec3a 1482NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1483 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1484
89dec7b6
TF
1485TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1486 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1487
a99de90c
TF
1488TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1489 that they are available at delivery time.
1490
e2803e40
TF
1491TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1492
7199e1ee
TF
1493TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1494 incoming_port log selectors.
1495
e276e04b
TF
1496TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1497 setting expands to an empty string.
1498
ce552449 1499NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1500 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1501
e765a0f1 1502NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1503 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1504
4f054c63 1505NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1506 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1507
7d9f747b
PP
1508NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1509 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1510
7d9f747b
PP
1511NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1512 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1513
b52bc06e 1514NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1515 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1516
447de4b0
NM
1517NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1518
4c69d561 1519NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1520 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1521
d5c39246 1522NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1523 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1524
0b23848a
TK
1525TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1526
8f3414a1 1527NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1528 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1529
fb6f955d
NM
1530NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1531
1532NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1533
7d9f747b
PP
1534NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1535 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1536
7d9f747b
PP
1537NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1538 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1539
7d9f747b
PP
1540NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1541 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1542
7d9f747b
PP
1543NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1544 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1545
7d9f747b
PP
1546NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1547 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1548
7d9f747b
PP
1549NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1550 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1551
7d9f747b
PP
1552NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1553 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1554
7d9f747b 1555NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1556 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1557
7d9f747b 1558NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1559
7d9f747b
PP
1560NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1561 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1562
7d9f747b 1563NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1564
7d9f747b 1565NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1566
7d9f747b 1567NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1568
7d9f747b 1569NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1570
17792b53 1571NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1572 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1573
7d9f747b
PP
1574NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1575 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1576
91576cec 1577NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1578 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1579
7d9f747b
PP
1580NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1581 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1582
7d9f747b 1583NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1584
7d9f747b 1585NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1586
7d9f747b 1587NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1588
7d9f747b 1589NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1590
deafd5b3 1591
47db1125
NM
1592Exim version 4.69
1593-----------------
1594
4b3504d0
TK
1595TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1596 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1597 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1598
1599 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1600 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1601 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1602 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1603 build errors in sieve.c.
1604
81ea09ca
NM
1605NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1606 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1607 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1608
f13cddcb
SC
1609SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1610
7d9f747b 1611NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1612
7d9f747b 1613NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1614
7d9f747b 1615NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1616
1617
eb4c0de6
PH
1618Exim version 4.68
1619-----------------
1620
1621PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1622
6a3bceb1
PH
1623PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1624 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1625 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1626 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1627 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1628 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1629 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1630 for iplsearch lookups.
1631
1632 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1633 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1634 previously such lookups could never work.
1635
1636 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1637 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1638 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1639
2e30fa9d
TK
1640TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1641 version.
1642
0806a9c5
MH
1643MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1644 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1645 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1646 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1647 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1648 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1649
ae276964
TK
1650TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1651 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1652
0f2cbd1b
MH
1653MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1654 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1655 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1656 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1657 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1658 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1659
2b85bce7
PH
1660PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1661 local_scan API.
1662
93655c46
PH
1663PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1664
6c512171
PH
1665PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1666 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1667 encrypted.
1668
1669PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1670 by clients under certain conditions.
1671
aa6dc513
PH
1672PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1673 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1674
a96603a0
PH
1675PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1676
8f240103
PH
1677PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1678 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1679
1680PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1681
d677b2f2
PH
1682PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1683
d52120f2
PH
1684PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1685
64f2600a
PH
1686PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1687 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1688
8669f003
PH
1689PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1690
a4dc33a8
PH
1691PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1692 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1693
d6a60c0f
PH
1694PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1695
8f128379
PH
1696PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1697
8932dffe
PH
1698PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1699 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1700 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1701 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1702
ddea74fa 1703PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1704 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1705 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1706
ddea74fa 1707PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1708 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1709
ddea74fa
PH
1710PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1711
ce9f225c
PH
1712PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1713
19897d52
PH
1714PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1715
bc64a74d
PH
1716PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1717 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1718 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1719
eb4c0de6 1720
b4ed4da0
PH
1721Exim version 4.67
1722-----------------
1723
22ad45c9
MH
1724MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1725 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1726 Jan Srzednicki.
1727
b4ed4da0
PH
1728PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1729 issue a MAIL command.
1730
431b7361
PH
1731PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1732
1733 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1734
1735 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1736 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1737 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1738 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1739 item. This has been fixed.
1740
1741PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1742 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1743
83da1223
PH
1744PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1745 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1746
54fc8428
PH
1747PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1748 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1749 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1750
34c5e8dd
SC
1751SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1752
bbe15da8
PH
1753PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1754 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1755 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1756 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1757 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1758
0e8a9471
MH
1759MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1760 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1761 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1762
f0872424
PH
1763PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1764 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1765 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1766 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1767
b01dd148
PH
1768PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1769
6bf342e1
PH
1770PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1771
273f34d0
PH
1772PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1773 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1774 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1775 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1776 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1777
cf8b11a5
PH
1778PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1779
41c7c167
PH
1780PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1781 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1782 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1783 values).
1784
9c57cbc0
PH
1785PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1786
f3f065bb
PH
1787PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1788
047bdd8c
PH
1789PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1790
0ce9abe6
PH
1791PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1792
0e22dfd1
PH
1793PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1794
4c590bd1
PH
1795PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1796 no_callout_flush is set.
1797
09945f1e
PH
1798PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1799 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1800 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1801 fixed.
1802
c51b8e75
PH
1803PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1804
e28326d8
PH
1805PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1806 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1807 other ACL rejections are.
1808
75b1493f
PH
1809PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1810 with slight modification.
1811
7c5214ec
PH
1812PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1813 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1814
4311097e
PH
1815PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1816 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1817 connection.
1818
29f89cad
PH
1819PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1820 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1821
5e687460
SC
1822SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1823
c3611384
PH
1824PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1825 expansion side effects.
1826
5a11a7b4
PH
1827PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1828 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1829 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1830 be the same.
1831
0e20aff9
MH
1832MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1833 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1834 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1835
ca86f471
PH
1836PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1837 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1838 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1839 were accidentally chopped off.
1840
a14e5636
PH
1841PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1842 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1843 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1844 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1845 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1846 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1847 pipelining has not been advertised.
1848
ec95d1a6
PH
1849PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1850
42855d71
PH
1851PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1852 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1853 This has been fixed.
1854
57c2c631
PH
1855PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1856 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1857 reported on Solaris.
1858
58c01c94
PH
1859PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1860 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1861 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1862 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1863 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1864 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1865 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1866
dee5a20a
PH
1867PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1868 cpus.
1869
d2ee6114
PH
1870PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1871
b2d5182b
PH
1872PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1873
79749a79
PH
1874PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1875 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1876 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1877 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1878 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1879 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1880
c456d9bb
PH
1881PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1882 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1883 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1884 host_all_ignored option.
1885
cd9868ec
PH
1886PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1887 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1888 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1889 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1890 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1891 is what is supposed to happen).
1892
ebeaf996
PH
1893PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1894 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1895 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1896 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1897 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1898 uses the Exim user.
1899
2679d413
PH
1900PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1901 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1902 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1903 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1904 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1905 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1906 users.
1907
84024b72
PH
1908PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1909
8005d38e
SC
1910SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1911 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1912 (Jez Hancock).
1913 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1914 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1915
3298c6c6
SC
1916SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1917
a43a27c5
PH
1918PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1919
58eb016e 1920PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
1921 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1922 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1923 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1924 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1925 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1926 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1927 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1928 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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PH
1929 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1930 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1931
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PH
1932PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1933 advertised in response to EHLO.
1934
b4ed4da0 1935
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1936Exim version 4.66
1937-----------------
1938
1939PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1940 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1941
1942 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1943 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1944
1945 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1946 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1947 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1948
1949 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1950 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1951 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1952 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1953 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1954
1955
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1956Exim version 4.65
1957-----------------
1958
1959TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1960 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1961 versions. (#438)
1962
d6066548
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1963MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1964 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1965 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1966
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1967PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1968 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1969 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1970 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1971 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1972 rather than extend the field.
1973
93cfa765 1974
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1975Exim version 4.64
1976-----------------
aa41d2de 1977
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1978TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1979 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1980 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1981 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1982 these files.
1983
1984TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1985 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1986 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1987
1988TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1989 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1990 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
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1991
1992TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1993 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1994 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1995 in the field name.
1996
2b1c6e3a
PH
1997PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1998 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1999 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2000 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2001 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2002 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2003 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2004 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2005 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2006 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2007 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2008
1f872c80
PH
2009PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2010 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2011
2012PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2013 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2014 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2015 ignores EPIPE as well.
2016
d203e649
PH
2017PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2018 (quoted-printable decoding).
2019
cc2ed8f7 2020PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2021 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2022
ddfcd446
PH
2023PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2024
d45b1de8
PH
2025PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2026
2027PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2028
38a0a95f 2029PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2030 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2031
a2405d83
JJ
2032JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2033 in 4.64-PH/09.
2034
2035JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2036 miscellaneous code fixes
2037
6ea85e9a
PH
2038PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2039 rejections.
2040
26da7e20
PH
2041PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2042 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2043 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2044 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2045 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2046 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2047 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2048 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2049
14aa5a05 2050PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2051 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2052 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2053 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2054 function.
2055 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2056 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2057 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2058 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2059 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2060 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2061 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2062 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2063 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2064
ff75a1f7
PH
2065PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2066 decoding.
2067
e6f6568e
PH
2068PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2069 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2070 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2071 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2072 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2073 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2074 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2075 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2076
d6f6e0dc
PH
2077PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2078 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2079 list.
2080
322050c2
PH
2081PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2082 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2083 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2084 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2085 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2086 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2087 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2088 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2089 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2090 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2091 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2092 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2093 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2094
08955dd3
PH
2095PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2096 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2097 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2098 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2099 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2100 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2101 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2102
1eccaa59
PH
2103PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2104 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2105 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2106 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2107 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2108 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2109 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2110 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2111 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2112 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2113
602e59e5
PH
2114PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2115 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2116 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2117 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2118 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2119
411ef850
PH
2120PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2121 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2122 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2123 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2124 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2125 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2126 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2127
7befa435
PH
2128PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2129 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2130 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2131 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2132 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2133 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2134 been verified.
2135
48da4259 2136PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2137 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2138 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2139 and authorization.)
2140
48da4259
PH
2141PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2142 if any retry times were supplied.
2143
d1d5595c
PH
2144PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2145 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2146 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2147
0ef732d9
PH
2148PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2149
328895cc
PH
2150PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2151
fd700877
PH
2152PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2153 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2154 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2155 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2156 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2157 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2158
8dce1a6f
PH
2159PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2160 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2161
17af4a17
PH
2162PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2163 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2164 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2165
2166PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2167 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2168 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2169 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2170 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2171 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2172 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2173 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2174 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2175
2176 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2177 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2178 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2179 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2180 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2181 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2182 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2183 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2184 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2185
2186 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2187 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2188 hammering the server.
2189
c1114884
PH
2190PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2191 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2192
7a0743eb
PH
2193PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2194
0d85fa3f
PH
2195PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2196 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2197 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2198
1bf43b78
PH
2199PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2200 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2201 one case where this was not true.
2202
520de300
PH
2203PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2204 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2205 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2206 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2207 fails.
2208
48c7f9e2
PH
2209PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2210 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2211 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2212 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2213 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2214 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2215 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2216 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2217 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2218 smtp transport.
2219
99ea1c86
PH
2220PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2221 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2222 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2223 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2224
a2042e78
PH
2225PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2226 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2227
4fbcfc2e
PH
2228PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2229 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2230 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2231
aa41d2de
PH
2232PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2233
af561417
PH
2234PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2235
3cc66b45
PH
2236PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2237
194cc0e4
PH
2238PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2239 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2240 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2241 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2242
a401ddaa
PH
2243PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2244 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2245
4e88a19f
PH
2246PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2247 be meaningful with "accept".
2248
d7d7b289
SC
2249SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2250 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2251
2252SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2253 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2254 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2255
2256SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2257 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2258 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2259 there is data to show.
2260 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2261
2262SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2263 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2264 as well as the number of messages.
2265
2266SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2267 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2268 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2269
2270SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2271 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2272 have a flag are now skipped.
2273
2274SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2275 Added the -emptyok flag.
2276
2277SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2278 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2279
0ea2a468
JJ
2280JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2281 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2282 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2283
2284JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2285 match 4.64-PH/13
2286
2287JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2288 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2289
2290JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2291
2292JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2293 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2294
8a10f5a4
PH
2295PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2296
30e18802
PH
2297PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2298 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2299 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2300 contravention of the specifications.
2301
55728a4f
PH
2302PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2303 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2304 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2305
d7837193
PH
2306PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2307 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2308 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2309
87054a31
PH
2310PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2311
ea2c01d2
MH
2312MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2313 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2314 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2315 some point in the past.
2316
e4fa6968
PH
2317PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2318 transport during callout processing was broken.
2319
56f5d9bd
PH
2320PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2321 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2322
922e1c28
PH
2323PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2324 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2325
21eb6e72
PH
2326PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2327 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2328
a0540757
PH
2329PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2330
944e9e9c 2331
478be7b0
SC
2332Exim version 4.63
2333-----------------
2334
2335SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2336 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2337
2338SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2339 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2340 there is data to show.
2341 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2342
2343SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2344 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2345
2b965a65
TF
2346TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2347 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2348
45b91596
PH
2349TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2350 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2351
c59f5781
TF
2352TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2353 submissions from trusted users.
2354
90fc3069
TF
2355TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2356 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2357
6083aca0
TF
2358TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2359 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2360 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2361 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2362 there is now a framework to start from.
2363
765b530f
PH
2364PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2365 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2366 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2367
4e167a8c
PH
2368PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2369
4608d683
PH
2370PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2371
b8dc3e4a
PH
2372PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2373
5418e93b
PH
2374PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2375 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2376 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2377
b4a9bda2
PH
2378PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2379 libradius.
2380
45b91596
PH
2381PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2382 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2383 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2384
5547e2c5
PH
2385PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2386 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2387 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2388 its arguments.
2389
dbcef0ea
PH
2390PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2391 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2392 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2393 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2394 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2395
25257489
PH
2396PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2397 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2398
c816d124
PH
2399PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2400
a9ccd69a
PH
2401PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2402 operations in malware.c.
2403
75fa1910
PH
2404PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2405 signatures.
2406
a7d7aa58
PH
2407PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2408 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2409 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2410 all.
2411
42119b09
PH
2412PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2413 statements to "add_header".
2414
41609df5
PH
2415PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2416 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2417
a5bd321b
PH
2418PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2419 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2420 latter.
2421
e85a7ad5 2422PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2423 so that it is now:
2424
e85a7ad5
PH
2425 ${if or { \
2426 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2427 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2428 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2429 }{no}{yes}}
2430
e85a7ad5
PH
2431 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2432 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2433
d8fe1c03
PH
2434PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2435 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2436
16282d2b
PH
2437PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2438 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2439 any possible encoding problems.
2440
35d40a98
PH
2441PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2442 but not after initializing Perl.
2443
034d99ab
PH
2444PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2445 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2446 apparently, which is not desirable.
2447
6ec97b1b
PH
2448PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2449 queries.
2450
e22ca4ac
JJ
2451JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2452 --not options
2453
2454JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2455
33d73e3b
PH
2456PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2457 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2458 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2459 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2460
9ecb03f3
PH
2461PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2462 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2463 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2464
084efe8d
PH
2465PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2466 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2467 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2468 0.12.
2469
366fc9f0
PH
2470PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2471 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2472 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2473 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2474 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2475
c59f5781 2476
c887c79e
TF
2477Exim version 4.62
2478-----------------
2479
2480TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2481 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2482
1cce3af8
PH
2483PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2484 patch).
2485
afb3eaaf
PH
2486PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2487 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2488 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2489 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2490 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2491 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2492 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2493 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2494 451 error is used.
2495
e173618b
PH
2496PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2497
dd16e114
PH
2498PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2499 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2500 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2501
f7fd3850
PH
2502PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2503 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2504 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2505 odd errors.
2506
d87df92c
PH
2507PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2508 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2509
7e9f683d
PH
2510PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2511 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2512 option (which defaults to 0600).
2513
bfad5236
PH
2514PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2515
01c490df
PH
2516PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2517 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2518 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2519 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2520 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2521 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2522 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2523
d6629cdc
PH
2524PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2525
1cce3af8 2526
214e2000
PH
2527Exim version 4.61
2528-----------------
2529
2530PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2531 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2532 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2533 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2534 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2535 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2536 addresses as local.
2537
f9daeae0
PH
2538PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2539 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2540
7e66e54d
PH
2541PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2542
c8ea1597
PH
2543PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2544 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2545 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2546 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2547 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2548 grumble.
2549
911f6fde
PH
2550PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2551 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2552
47ca6d6c
PH
2553PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2554 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2555 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2556 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2557 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2558
ed0e9820
PH
2559PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2560 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2561 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2562 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2563
eff37e47
PH
2564PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2565 be the same on different OS.
2566
1921d2ea
PH
2567PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2568 testing.
2569
b3f69ca8
JJ
2570JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2571 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2572
2573JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2574 in 4.61-PH/06
2575
424a1c63
PH
2576PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2577 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2578 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2579 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2580 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2581 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2582 bounce message.
2583
7a100415
PH
2584PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2585 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2586 when Exim was called.
2587
19b9dc85
PH
2588PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2589 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2590
309bd837
PH
2591PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2592 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2593 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2594 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2595
59e82a2a
PH
2596PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2597 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2598 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2599 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2600 changes:
2601
2602 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2603 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2604 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2605
2606 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2607 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2608 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2609
9edc04ce
PH
2610PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2611 feature).
2612
1349e1e5
PH
2613PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2614 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2615 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2616 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2617 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2618 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2619 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2620 values from the SRV records were lost.
2621
ea49d0e1
PH
2622PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2623 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2624 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2625
064a94c9
PH
2626PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2627 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2628 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2629
727071f8
PH
2630PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2631 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2632 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2633 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2634 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2635 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2636 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2637 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2638 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2639 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2640
f78eb7c6
PH
2641PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2642 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2643 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2644
21c28500
PH
2645PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2646 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2647
2648PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2649 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2650 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2651 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2652 is given.
2653
1688f43b
PH
2654PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2655 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2656 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2657
2658PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2659 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2660 PH/23 above applies.
2661
9675b384
PH
2662PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2663 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2664 (for which there is an explicit test).
2665
6a3f1455
PH
2666PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2667
dac79d3e
PH
2668PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2669 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2670 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2671 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2672 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2673
5977a0b3
PH
2674PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2675 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2676 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2677 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2678
c91535f3
PH
2679PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2680 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2681 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2682
0d46a8c8
PH
2683PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2684
278c6e6c
PH
2685PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2686
2cbb4081
PH
2687PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2688 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2689 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2690
3eef829e
PH
2691PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2692 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2693 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2694 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2695 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2696
1ab95fa6
PH
2697PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2698 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2699 the message gets confusing).
2700
230205fc
PH
2701PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2702 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2703 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2704 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2705
75e0e026
PH
2706PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2707 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2708 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2709 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2710 same order.
2711
2712PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2713 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2714 the different processes.
2715
145396a6
PH
2716PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2717
3cd34f13
PH
2718PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2719
11121d3d
JJ
2720JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2721 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2722
2723JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2724 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2725
2726JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2727 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2728 messages matching specified criteria.
2729
8def5aaf
PH
2730PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2731
929ba01c
PH
2732PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2733 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2734
2632889e
PH
2735PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2736 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2737 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2738 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2739 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2740 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2741 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2742 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2743 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2744 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2745
944a9c55
PH
2746PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2747 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2748 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2749
4a23603b
PH
2750PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2751
4730f942
PH
2752PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2753 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2754 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2755 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2756 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2757 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2758 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2759 the variable.
2760
30dba1e6
PH
2761PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2762 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2763
382afc6b
PH
2764PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2765
a86229cf
PH
2766PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2767
50c99ba6
PH
2768PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2769
d35e429d
PH
2770PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2771 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2772 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2773 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2774 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2775 size of the count of files.
2776
f90d018c
PH
2777PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2778
75def545
PH
2779PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2780 used in LMTP mode:
2781
2782 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2783 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2784 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2785 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2786
2787 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2788 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2789 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2790
2791PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2792 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2793 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2794 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2795 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2796
c46782ef
PH
2797PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2798 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2799
71fafd95
PH
2800PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2801 will now be deprecated.
2802
2c5db4fd
PH
2803PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2804
9cf6b11a
JJ
2805JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2806 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2807 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2808
2809JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2810 with very large, slow to parse queues
2811
2812JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2813
2814JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2815
898d150f
PH
2816PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2817 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2818 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2819 SMTP output lines.
2820
46218253
PH
2821PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2822 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2823 Sieve code now uses this.
2824
e97957bc
PH
2825PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2826 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2827
81e509d7
PH
2828PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2829 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2830
3d240ff7
PH
2831PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2832
b37c4101
PH
2833PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2834 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2835 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2836 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2837 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2838
79378e0f
PH
2839PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2840 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2841 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2842 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2843
e49c7bb4
PH
2844PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2845
d114ec46
PH
2846PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2847
f3d7df6c
PH
2848PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2849 is preferred over IPv4.
2850
715ab376
PH
2851PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2852 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2853 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2854 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2855 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2856 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2857 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2858
6b31b150
PH
2859PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2860 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2861 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2862
2863PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2864
d515a917
PH
2865PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2866 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2867 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2868 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2869 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2870 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2871 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2872 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2873 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2874 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2875 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2876
9b8fadde
PH
2877PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2878 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2879 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2880
214e2000 2881
5de37277
PH
2882Exim version 4.60
2883-----------------
2884
cc38ddbf
PH
2885PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2886
2887 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2888 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2889
2890 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2891 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2892 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2893
72fdd6ae
PH
2894PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2895
2896 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2897 not a single digit.
2898
2899 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2900 string.
2901
2902 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2903 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2904 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2905 silly things.
2906
2907 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2908 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2909
2910 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2911 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2912
cb741023
PH
2913PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2914 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2915 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2916
f174f16e
PH
2917PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2918 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2919
c25242d7
PH
2920PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2921 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2922
2923 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2924
2925 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2926 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2927 this:
2928
2929 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2930
82c19f95
PH
2931PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2932 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2933 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2934 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2935 identical. For example:
2936
2937 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2938
2939 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2940 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2941 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2942
d7ffbc12
PH
2943PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2944 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2945 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2946 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2947
9f526266
PH
2948PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2949 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2950 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2951 message.
2952
87fcc8b9
PH
2953PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2954
2955 o fixes some comments
2956 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2957 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2958 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2959 and documents the missing references header update
2960
2961 and most important:
2962
2963 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2964 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2965 result)
2966
456682f5
PH
2967PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2968 Electronic Mail") by including:
2969
2970 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2971
2972 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2973 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2974 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2975 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2976 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2977
2978 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2979
2980 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2981
2982 The auto-replied keyword:
2983
2984 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2985 message by an automatic process,
2986
2987 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2988
2989 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2990 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2991
2992 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2993 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2994 other messages.
2995
3e46c1aa
PH
2996PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2997 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2998
49826d12
PH
2999PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3000
eba0c039
PH
3001PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3002 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3003 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3004
a0d6ba8a
PH
3005PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3006 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3007 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3008
f0917727
PH
3009PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3010 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3011 and treats the condition as false.
3012
096fee00
PH
3013PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3014
024bd3c2
PH
3015PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3016 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3017 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3018 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3019 not changing the active code.
3020
3021 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3022 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3023
3024 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3025 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3026
df199fec
PH
3027PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3028 (Bugzilla #53).
3029
d27f1df3
PH
3030PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3031 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3032 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3033 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3034 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3035 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3036 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3037 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3038 the text comparison.
3039
96776534
PH
3040PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3041 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3042 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3043 The same fix has been applied.
3044
5de37277 3045
9a799bc0
PH
3046Exim version 4.54
3047-----------------
3048
3049PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3050 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3051 It now does.
3052
99a4b039
PH
3053PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3054 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3055
3056PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3057
4b233853
PH
3058PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3059 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3060 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3061 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3062 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3063
8857ccfd
PH
3064TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3065 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3066 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3067 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3068 or /domain=).
3069
433a2980
PH
3070PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3071 testing suite.
3072
3e46c1aa 3073
9a799bc0 3074
e3a311ba
TK
3075Exim version 4.53
3076-----------------
3077
3078TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3079 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3080
13b685f9
PH
3081PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3082
395ff96d
PH
3083PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3084
5b68f6e4
PH
3085PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3086 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3087 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3088
1ab52c69
PH
3089PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3090 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3091 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3092
b07e6aa3
PH
3093PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3094 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3095 operating systems.
3096
254e032f
PH
3097PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3098 ${stat: expansion item.
3099
3af76a81
PH
3100PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3101 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3102
2548ba04
PH
3103PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3104 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3105 file for comments.
3106
b6c6011d
PH
3107PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3108
cf39cf57
PH
3109PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3110 setting.
3111
f1513293
PH
3112PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3113 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3114
727549a4
PH
3115TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3116
af46795e
PH
3117PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3118 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3119 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3120 the end of the subprocess.
3121
d7b47fd0
PH
3122PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3123 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3124 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3125 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3126 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3127
ee744174
JJ
3128JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3129
b582ab87
PH
3130TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3131
41a13e0a
PH
3132PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3133 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3134
f625cc5a
PH
3135PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3136
3137PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3138
21f7af35
PH
3139PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3140 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3141 HP-UX compiler.
3142
31480e42
PH
3143PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3144
2d280592
PH
3145PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3146 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3147 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3148
7cd1141b
PH
3149PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3150 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3151
3152PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3153 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3154
750af86e
PH
3155PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3156 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3157
3158 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3159 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3160
3161 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3162 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3163 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3164 contributed by a Radius user.
3165
3166PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3167 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3168
4304270b
TK
3169TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3170 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3171
750af86e
PH
3172PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3173 available.
3174
64ffc24f
PH
3175PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3176 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3177 received.
3178
5dd9625b
PH
3179PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3180 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3181 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3182 header lines when this was not necessary.
3183
5591031b
PH
3184PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3185
ba18e66a
PH
3186PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3187 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3188 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3189 exists".
3190
9cec981f
PH
3191PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3192 -bV or -d is used.
3193
aa2b5c79
PH
3194PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3195 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3196 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3197 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3198
48a53b7f
PH
3199PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3200
1c59d63b
PH
3201PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3202
671012da
TK
3203TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3204
1509d3a8
PH
3205PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3206
3207PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3208 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3209 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3210 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3211 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3212 settings.
3213
3214PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3215
2fe1a124
PH
3216PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3217 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3218 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3219 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3220 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3221 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3222 which is clearly wrong.
3223
8800895a
PH
3224PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3225
ccfdb010
PH
3226PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3227 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3228 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3229 subsequently added.
3230
1130bfb0
PH
3231PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3232 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3233
ebcb507f
PH
3234PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3235
c35e155c
PH
3236PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3237 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3238
95d1f782
PH
3239PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3240 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3241
fd6de02e
PH
3242PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3243 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3244
58de37c5
PH
3245PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3246 recipients, not senders.
3247
261cf466
TF
3248TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3249 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3250
3ee512ff
PH
3251PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3252
e08c430f
PH
3253PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3254
bef5a11f
PH
3255PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3256 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3257 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3258 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3259
7546de58
TF
3260TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3261
e5d5a95f
TF
3262TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3263 clock is set back in time.
3264
2e88a017
TF
3265TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3266 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3267
a5f65aa4
TF
3268TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3269 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3270
e7726cbf
PH
3271PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3272 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3273 (see PH/47 above).
3274
a7fdad5b
TF
3275TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3276 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3277 header rewrites.
3278
6af56900
PH
3279PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3280 type ("H").
3281
0925ede6
PH
3282PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3283
66afa403
TF
3284TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3285 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3286 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3287
0154e85a
TF
3288TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3289 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3290 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3291 helo verification defer as a failure.
3292
16f12c76
PH
3293PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3294 actual error message.
3295
bbe902f0 3296
e5a9dba6
PH
3297Exim version 4.52
3298-----------------
3299
3300TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3301
22c3b60b
PH
3302PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3303 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3304 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3305 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3306
06a9b4b5
PH
3307TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3308
c1ac6996
PH
3309PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3310 can still be requested.
3311
9c7a242c
PH
3312PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3313 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3314 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3315 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3316
87ba3f5f
PH
3317TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3318 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3319 circumstances, but probably never did.
3320
3321PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3322 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3323 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3324 in the header line.
3325
29aba418
TF
3326TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3327
fe0dab11
TF
3328TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3329 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3330
11d337a4
TK
3331TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3332
3333TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3334
415c8f3b
PH
3335PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3336 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3337 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3338 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3339 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3340 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3341
958541e9
PH
3342PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3343 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3344 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3345 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3346 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3347 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3348
c206415f
TK
3349TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3350 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3351
2a4be8f9
PH
3352PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3353 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3354
1cba11c5
SC
3355SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3356 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3357
3358SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3359
3360SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3361
3362SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3363
3364SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3365
3366SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3367
3368SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3369
1005d00e
TK
3370TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3371
3372TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3373 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3374 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3375
3376TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3377 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3378 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3379 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3380
9b4768fa
PH
3381PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3382 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3383 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3384
3385PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3386 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3387 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3388 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3389
0d7eb84a
PH
3390PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3391 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3392 to be made).
3393
3394PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3395 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3396 should work with maildirs and everything.
3397
40727bee
TK
3398TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3399 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3400
554d2369
TF
3401TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3402 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3403
1f922db1
PH
3404PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3405 function for BDB 4.3.
3406
ef213c3b
PH
3407PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3408
8ac170f3
PH
3409PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3410 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3411 involved.
3412
b1c749bb
PH
3413PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3414 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3415 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3416 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3417 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3418 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3419
4aac9b49
PH
3420PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3421 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3422 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3423 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3424 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3425 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3426 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3427 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3428
294520c8
TK
3429TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3430 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3431 details.
3432
5bd022fe
PH
3433PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3434 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3435
90e9ce59
PH
3436PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3437 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3438 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3439 test. It is now used for both.
3440
5ea81592
PH
3441PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3442 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3443 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3444 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3445 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3446 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3447
c6c2dc1d
PH
3448PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3449 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3450 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3451 string_vformat().
3452
fffffe4c
PH
3453PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3454 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3455 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3456
9a26b6b2
PH
3457PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3458 experimental DomainKeys support:
3459
3460 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3461 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3462 the control was given.
3463
3464 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3465
4aee0225
PH
3466PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3467
32d668a5
PH
3468PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3469
8187c3f3
PH
3470PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3471 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3472 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3473 db.h files).
3474
ff790e47 3475PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3476 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3477 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3478 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3479 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3480 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3481 course.
ff790e47 3482
5417f6d1
PH
3483PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3484 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3485 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3486 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3487 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3488 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3489
59cf8544
PH
3490PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3491 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3492 do -d+all out of habit.
3493
e7ad8a65
PH
3494PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3495 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3496 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3497
ade42478
PH
3498PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3499 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3500 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3501 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3502 record types that Exim uses.
3503
182ad5cf
PH
3504PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3505 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3506 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3507 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3508 non-existent file that was broken.
3509
b0d9fc80
TK
3510TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3511 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3512
3513TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3514 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3515 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3516
3517TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3518
47c7a64a
PH
3519PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3520 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3521 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3522 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3523 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3524 same time.
3525
a388bce4
SC
3526SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3527 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3528 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3529 at a slight CPU cost.
3530
3531SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3532 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3533
3534SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3535 by Marc Sherman.
3536
0793e4ed
SC
3537SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3538
c58b88df
PH
3539PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3540 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3541
e7ad8a65 3542
7982096b
PH
3543Exim version 4.51
3544-----------------
3545
1a46a8c5
PH
3546TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3547 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3548
2f079f46 3549TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3550
3551TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3552
3553PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3554 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3555
3556PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3557 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3558 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3559 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3560 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3561 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3562 file.
3563
3564PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3565 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3566 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3567 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3568 these two options.
3569
3570PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3571 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3572 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3573 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3574 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3575 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3576 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3577 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3578
3579PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3580 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3581
3582PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3583 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3584 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3585 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3586 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3587 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3588
3589PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3590 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3591 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3592 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3593
3594PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3595 Finch).
3596
3597PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3598 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3599
49c2d5ea
PH
3600PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3601 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3602 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3603 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3604 message.
49c2d5ea 3605
bf759a8b
PH
3606PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3607
83364d30
PH
3608PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3609 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3610
7999bbd7
PH
3611PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3612 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3613 to what was transported.)
3614
7dbf77c9
PH
3615TF/01 Added $received_time.
3616
74e0617f
PH
3617PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3618 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3619 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3620 spamd_address settings.
3621
2f079f46
PH
3622PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3623 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3624 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3625 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3626 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3627
8c841523
PH
3628PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3629
7766a4f0
PH
3630PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3631 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3632 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3633 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3634 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3635
8b417f2c
PH
3636PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3637 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3638
901f42cb
PH
3639PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3640 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3641 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3642 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3643 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3644 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3645 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3646 for failure.
3647
f9b9210e
PH
3648PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3649 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3650 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3651 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3652 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3653 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3654 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3655 "input=".
3656
54cdb463
PH
3657PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3658
cf00dad6
PH
3659PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3660 driver and ACL definitions.
3661
acb1b346
PH
3662PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3663 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3664
c5ddb310
PH
3665PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3666 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3667 understands it better than I do:
3668
3669 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3670 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3671
3672 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3673 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3674 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3675 => three warnings about OTP not working
3676 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3677
3678 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3679 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3680 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3681 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3682 for each call.)
3683 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3684 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3685
3686 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3687 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3688 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3689
31619da6
PH
3690PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3691 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3692 specified.
3693
bebaf0fc
PH
3694PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3695 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3696 "Linux".
3697
475fe28a
PH
3698PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3699 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3700 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3701
3702 warn !verify = sender
3703 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3704
3705 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3706 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3707
7e8bec7a
PH
3708PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3709
3710 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3711 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3712
3713 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3714 nomenclature these days.)
3715
e4a89c47
PH
3716PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3717 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3718
5ca2a9a1
PH
3719PH/30 In these circumstances:
3720 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3721 . First host does not offer TLS;
3722 . First host accepts first address;
3723 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3724 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3725 . Second host accepts second address.
3726 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3727 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3728 address.
7e8bec7a 3729
c688b954
PH
3730PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3731 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3732 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3733 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3734 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3735
fed77020
PH
3736PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3737 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3738
7fe1560f
PH
3739PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3740 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3741
ebb6e6d5
PH
3742PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3743 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3744 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3745
9c4e8f60
PH
3746PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3747 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3748 overlooked.
3749
3750PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3751
d7174846
PH
3752PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3753 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3754 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3755 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3756 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3757 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3758 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3759
3760 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3761 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3762 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3763 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3764 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3765
3766 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3767 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3768 routed further.
3769
cfe75fc3
PH
3770PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3771 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3772 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3773 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3774 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3775 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3776
be22d70e
PH
3777PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3778
0612b098
PH
3779PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3780 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3781 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3782 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3783 printable escape sequences.
3784
2e0c1448
PH
3785PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3786 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3787 body only.
3788
447d236c
PH
3789PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3790 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3791 are as follows:
3792
3793 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3794 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3795 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3796 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3797 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3798
3799 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3800 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3801 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3802
d20976dc
PH
3803PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3804
f656d135
PH
3805PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3806 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3807 play with."
3808
2e2a30b4
PH
3809PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3810 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3811 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3812 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3813 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3814 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3815 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3816 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3817 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3818 the log output.
3819
9176e9f0
PH
3820PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3821 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3822 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3823 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3824 "make".
3825
7982096b 3826
bbe902f0
PH
3827A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3828----------------------------------------
3829
3830Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3831changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3832needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3833in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3834that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3835release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3836from 4.43.
3837
3838I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
38394.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3840those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3841historical information.
3842
3843
f7b63901 3844Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3845-----------------
3846
5fe762f6
PH
3847 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3848
139059f6 3849 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3850 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3851
7086e875
PH
3852 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3853 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3854 place.
3855
35af9f61
PH
3856 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3857 filter fails to execute.
3858
b668c215
PH
3859 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3860 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3861 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3862 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3863 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3864
a494b1e1
PH
3865 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3866
3867 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3868 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3869 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3870 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3871
c5fcb476
PH
3872 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3873 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3874 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3875 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3876 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3877
69358f02
PH
3878 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3879
5be20824
PH
388010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3881
eb2c0248
PH
388211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3883 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3884 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3885 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3886
2a3eea10
PH
388712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3888 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3889 sender verification.
3890
389113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3892 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3893
23c7ff99
PH
389414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3895
4deaf07d
PH
389615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3897 connection timeout.
3898
926e1192
PH
389916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3900 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3901
650edc6f
PH
390217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3903 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3904
2c7db3f5
PH
390518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3906 information about exactly what failed.
3907
3d235903
PH
390819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3909
7c7ad977
PH
391020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3911 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3912 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3913
981756db
PH
391421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3915 It is now set to "smtps".
3916
d4eb88df
PH
391722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3918 ignore_target_hosts.
3919
392023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3921 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3922 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3923 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3924 "[x.x.x.x]".
3925
7d468ab8
PH
392624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3927 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3928 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3929
393025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3931 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3932 wake it up if nothing else does.
3933
62c0818f
PH
393426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3935 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3936 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3937 end up negative.
3938
26034054
PH
393927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3940 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3941
af66f652
PH
394228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3943
90af77f4
PH
394429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3945 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3946 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3947 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3948 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3949 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3950 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3951 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3952
d8ef3577
PH
395330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3954 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3955 than one IP address.
3956
5cb8cbc6
PH
395731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3958 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3959 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3960 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3961
14702f5b
PH
396232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3963 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3964 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3965 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3966 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3967 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3968
063b1e99
PH
396933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3970 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3971 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3972 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3973
652e1b65
PH
397434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3975 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3976 respected.
3977
6f0c9a4f
PH
397835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3979 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3980 $sender_host_address.
3981
33397d19
PH
398236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3983 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3984 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3985 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3986 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3987 very small.
3988
7bb56e1f
PH
398937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3990
3991 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3992 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3993
ea3bc19b
PH
3994 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3995 just the host names, not the priorities.
3996
3997 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3998 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3999 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4000
ea3bc19b 4001 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4002 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4003
0bcb2a0e
PH
400438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4005 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4006 domain.
4007
2ac0e484
PH
400839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4009
4e1fde53
PH
401040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4011 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4012
de365ded
PH
401341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4014 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4015 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4016
f05da2e8
PH
401742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4018
d6453af2
PH
401943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4020
f7b63901
PH
402144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4022
402345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4024 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4025 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4026 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4027 because the tests only now provoked it.
4028
a444213a
PH
402946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4030 (this can affect the format of dates).
4031
0ec020ea
PH
403247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4033 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4034 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4035 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4036
b1206957
PH
403748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4038
403949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4040 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4041 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4042 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4043
26dd5a95
PH
404450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4045 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4046 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4047
343b2385
PH
404851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4049 autoreply.
4050
1c5466b9
PH
405152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4052 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4053 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4054 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4055 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4056 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4057 is going on).
4058
55ee9ee3
PH
405953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4060 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4061 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4062 the line.
4063
d38f8232
PH
406454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4065 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4066 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4067
4068 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4069 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4070 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4071 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4072 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4073 so I produce this patch..."
4074
3295e65b
PH
4075 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4076 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4077 is not defined.
4078
7102e136
PH
407955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4080 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4081 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4082 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4083 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4084
3ca0ba97
PH
408556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4086
c2bcbe20
PH
408757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4088 long debug lines gets shown.
4089
18ce445d
PH
409058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4091 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4092
1f5b4c3d
PH
409359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4094
4095 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4096 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4097 of $primary_hostname.
4098
b975ba52
PH
409960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4100 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4101 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4102 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4103 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4104 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4105 by change 4.50/55 above.
4106
4107 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4108 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4109 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4110 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4111 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4112 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4113 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4114
411561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4116 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4117 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4118 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4119
17ffcae7
PH
412062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4121 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4122
d95f9fdb
PH
412363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4124 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4125 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4126 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4127 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4128
86b8287f
PH
412964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4130 This has been fixed.
4131
60dc5e56
PH
413265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4133 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4134 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4135 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4136 the caching.)
4137
533244af
PH
413866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4139
a5a28604
PH
414067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4141 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4142 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4143 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4144
7e634d24
PH
414568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4146 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4147
3e11c26b
PH
414869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4149 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4150 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4151
6729cf78
PH
415270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4153 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4154 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4155 message there.
4156
00f00ca5
PH
415771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4158 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4159 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4160
c9bdd01c
PH
416172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4162 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4163 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4164 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4165
d43194df
PH
416673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4167 during host lookups.
4168
fe5b5d0b
PH
416974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4170 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4171
4172 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4173
76a2d7ba
PH
417475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4175 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4176 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4177 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4178 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4179 background.
4180
418176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4182 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4183
04f7d5b9
PH
418477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4185 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4186 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4187
bc60667e
PH
418878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4189
bb6e88ff
PH
419079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4191 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4192 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4193 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4194 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4195 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4196 process earlier.
4197
1e70f85b
PH
419880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4199 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4200 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4201 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4202 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4203
420481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4205 tables).
4206
4e01f9d6
PH
420782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4208
1ee1cef2
PH
420983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4210 "vacation" handling.
4211
6e2b4ccc
PH
421284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4213 OS variants using glibc.
4214
8e669ac1
PH
421585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4216
495ae4b0 4217
bbe902f0
PH
4218----------------------------------------------------
4219See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4220----------------------------------------------------
4221
4222
4223Exim version 4.44
4224-----------------
4225
4226 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4227 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4228 transport
4229
4230 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4231 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4232 place.
4233
4234 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4235 filter fails to execute.
4236
4237 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4238 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4239 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4240 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4241 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4242
4243 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4244 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4245 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4246 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4247
4248 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4249 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4250 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4251 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4252 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4253
4254 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4255
4256 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4257 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4258 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4259 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4260
4261 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4262 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4263 sender verification.
4264
426510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4266 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4267
426811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4269 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4270
427112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4272 ignore_target_hosts.
4273
427413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4275 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4276 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4277 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4278 "[x.x.x.x]".
4279
428014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4281 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4282 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4283
428415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4285 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4286 wake it up if nothing else does.
4287
428816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4289 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4290 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4291 end up negative.
4292
429317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4294 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4295
ea3a6f44 429618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4297
429819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4299 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4300 empty pattern.
4301
430220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4303 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4304 one IP address.
4305
ea3a6f44
NM
430621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4307 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4308 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4309 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4310 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4311 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4312
ea3a6f44
NM
431322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4314 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4315 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4316
431723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4318 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4319 $sender_host_address.
4320
432124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4322
ea3a6f44
NM
432325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4324 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4325 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4326
432726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4328 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4329
ea3a6f44
NM
433027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4331 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4332
ea3a6f44
NM
433328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4334 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4335 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4336 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4337
433829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4339 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4340 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4341
ea3a6f44
NM
434230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4343 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4344 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4345 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4346
ea3a6f44
NM
434731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4348 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4349 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4350
ea3a6f44
NM
435131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4352 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4353
ea3a6f44
NM
435432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4355 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4356 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4357 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4358 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4359 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4360 is going on).
bbe902f0 4361
ea3a6f44
NM
436233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4363 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4364 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4365 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4366 CAN-2005-0021
4367
ea3a6f44
NM
436834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4369 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4370 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4371 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4372 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4373 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4374 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4375
4376 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4377 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4378 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4379 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4380 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4381 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4382 CAN-2005-0021
4383
ea3a6f44
NM
438435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4385 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4386 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4387 CAN-2005-0022
4388
ea3a6f44
NM
438936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4390 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4391 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4392 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4393 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4394
ea3a6f44
NM
439537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4396 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4397 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4398 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4399 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4400
ea3a6f44
NM
440138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4402 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4403 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4404 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4405 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4406
4407
495ae4b0
PH
4408Exim version 4.43
4409-----------------
4410
4411 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4412 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4413 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4414 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4415 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4416 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4417 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4418
4419 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4420 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4421 the delivery.
4422
4423 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4424
4425 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4426
4427 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4428 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4429 to local_scan().
4430
4431 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4432 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4433 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4434 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4435 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4436
4437 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4438 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4439
4440 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4441
4442 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4443
444410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4445 header_sender only.
4446
444711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4448 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4449
445012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4451 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4452 affecting debugging statements).
4453
445413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4455
445614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4457 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4458 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4459 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4460 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4461 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4462 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4463 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4464 after the received time, and all would be well.
4465
446615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4467 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4468 condition in an expansion string.
4469
447016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4471
447217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4473 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4474 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4475 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4476 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4477 job under whatever limits there are.
4478
447918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4480
448119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4482 space).
4483
448420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4485 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4486 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4487 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4488 return path is set.
4489
449021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4491 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4492 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4493 binary data in such strings.
4494
449522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4496
449723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4498 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4499 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4500 failure, which is pointless.
4501
450224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4503
450425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4505
450626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4507 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4508 Sender: header lines.
4509
451027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4511 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4512 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4513
451428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4515 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4516 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4517 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4518 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4519 happens.
4520
452129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4522 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4523 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4524 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4525 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4526
452730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4528 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4529 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4530 1024.
4531
453231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4533 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4534
453532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4536 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4537
453833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4539
454032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4541
454233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4543
454434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4545 syntax error.
4546
454735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4548
454936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4550
455137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4552 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4553 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4554 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4555
455638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4557 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4558
4559
4560Exim version 4.42
4561-----------------
4562
4563 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4564 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4565 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4566 it was not quoted.
4567 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4568 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4569 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4570 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4571 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4572 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4573
4574 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4575 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4576 verification failure".
4577
4578 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4579 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4580 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4581 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4582
4583 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4584 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4585 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4586 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4587 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4588 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4589 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4590 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4591 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4592 treated as a timeout.
4593
4594 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4595 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4596 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4597 not set for Exim filters).
4598
4599 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4600 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4601 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4602
4603 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4604
4605 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4606 try to make them clearer.
4607
4608 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4609 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4610
4611 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4612
4613 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4614
461510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4616 only the Cygwin environment.
4617
461811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4619 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4620 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4621 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4622 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4623
462412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4625 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4626 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4627 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4628 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4629 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4630 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4631
463213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4633 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4634
463514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4636
4637 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4638 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4639 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4640
4641 To: susanne@some.where
4642
4643 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4644 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4645 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4646 of addresses in From: header lines).
4647
4648 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4649 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4650 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4651
4652 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4653 treated as non-personal.
4654
4655 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4656 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4657
465815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4659
466016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4661
466217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4663 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4664 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4665
466618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4667 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4668
466919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4670 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4671 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4672 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4673 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4674 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4675
467620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4677 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4678 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4679 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4680 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4681 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4682 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4683 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4684
4685 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4686
468721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4688 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4689
469022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4691 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4692 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4693
469423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4695 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4696
469724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4698 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4699 rather than long int.
4700
470125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4702
470326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4704
4705
4706Exim version 4.41
4707-----------------
4708
4709 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4710 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4711 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4712 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4713 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4714 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4715
4716
4717Exim version 4.40
4718-----------------
4719
4720 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4721 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4722
4723 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4724 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4725 socklen_t is defined.
4726
4727 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4728 always exist.
4729
4730 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4731 configured.
4732
4733 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4734 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4735 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4736 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4737 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4738
4739 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4740 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4741 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4742 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4743
4744 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4745 of flapping under certain conditions.
4746
4747 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4748 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4749 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4750
4751 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4752
475310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4754
475511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4756 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4757 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4758 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4759
476012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4761 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4762 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4763 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4764 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4765 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4766 preserved with the message after it was received.
4767
476813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4769 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4770 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4771 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4772 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4773 test suite worked just fine.
4774
477514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4776 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4777 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4778
477915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4780 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4781 string.
4782
478316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4784 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4785 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4786 does not fully solve it.
4787
478817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4789 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4790 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4791 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4792 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4793
479418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4795 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4796 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4797
479819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4799 string, for example:
4800
4801 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4802
4803 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4804 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4805 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4806 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4807 the routers could not see them.
4808
480920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4810 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4811
481221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4813 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4814 output).
4815
481622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4817 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4818 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4819 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4820 that needed quoting.
4821
482223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4823 was not being matched caselessly.
4824
482524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4826 backslashes.
4827
482825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4829 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4830 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4831 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4832 when use_sender is false.
4833
483426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4835
483627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4837
483828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4839
484029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4841 the configuration file.
4842
484330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4844 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4845
484631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4847
484832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4849 bytes in the message body.
4850
485133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4852 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4853 delivery.
4854
485534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4856
485735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4858
485936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4860 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4861 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4862 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4863 another IP address.
4864
4865
4866Exim version 4.34
4867-----------------
4868
4869 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4870 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4871
4872 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4873 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4874 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4875 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4876 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4877
4878 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4879 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4880
4881 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4882 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4883 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4884
4885 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4886 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4887 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4888
4889 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4890 for routers.
4891
4892 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4893 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4894 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4895 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4896 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4897 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4898 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4899
4900
4901Exim version 4.33
4902-----------------
4903
4904 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4905 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4906 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4907 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4908 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4909 default (and expected) setting.
4910
4911 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4912 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4913 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4914 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4915
4916 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4917 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4918
4919 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4920 in domain lists.
4921
4922 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4923 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4924 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4925 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4926 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4927 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4928
4929 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4930 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4931 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4932
4933 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4934 part (NOT match_host).
4935
4936 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4937
4938 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4939 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4940 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4941 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4942 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4943 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4944 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4945 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4946 the same named file.
4947
494810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4949 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4950 when Exim is built.
4951
495211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4953 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4954 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4955 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4956 a host name.
4957
495812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4959 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4960 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4961
496213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4963
496414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4965
496615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4967
496816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4969 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4970
497117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4972 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4973 before starting the TLS session.
4974
497518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4976
497719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4978 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4979
498020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4981 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4982 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4983 colon in the middle).
4984
4985
4986Exim version 4.32
4987-----------------
4988
4989 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4990 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4991 multiple configurations are in use.
4992
4993 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4994 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4995 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4996 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4997 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4998 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4999
5000 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5001 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5002
5003 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5004 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5005 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5006
5007 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5008 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5009 occurs.
5010
5011 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5012 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5013
5014 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5015
5016 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5017 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5018
5019 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5020
5021 -prval:sval
5022
5023 is equivalent to
5024
5025 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5026
5027 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5028 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5029 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5030 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5031 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5032
503310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5034 Exim's behaviour:
5035
5036 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5037 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5038 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5039 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5040 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5041 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5042
5043 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5044 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5045 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5046 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5047 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5048 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5049 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5050 string.
5051
5052 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5053 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5054 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5055 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5056 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5057
505811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5059
506012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5061 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5062 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5063
506413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5065
506614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5067 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5068 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5069 information.
5070
507115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5072 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5073
507416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5075 Three changes have been made:
5076
5077 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5078 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5079 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5080 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5081 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5082
5083 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5084 been restored.
5085
5086 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5087 the modified behaviour.
5088
5089
5090Exim version 4.31
5091-----------------
5092
5093 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5094 Larry Rosenman.
5095
5096 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5097 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5098
5099 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5100 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5101 try to track down a specific problem.
5102
5103 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5104 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5105 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5106
5107 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5108 warning.
5109
5110 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5111 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5112 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5113 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5114 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5115 some earlier ones do not.
5116
5117 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5118
5119 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5120 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5121 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5122 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5123 address literals are enabled, of course).
5124
5125 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5126
512710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5128 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5129 by a command such as
5130
5131 exim -f "" ...
5132
5133 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5134
513511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5136
513712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5138 remained set. It is now erased.
5139
514013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5141 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5142
514314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5144 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5145 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5146 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5147 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5148 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5149 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5150 appropriate error code.
5151
515215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5153 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5154 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5155 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5156 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5157 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5158
515916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5160 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5161 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5162
516317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5164 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5165 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5166 terminate the header.
5167
516818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5169 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5170 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5171
517219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5173 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5174 (4.30/29). In particular:
5175
5176 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5177 imposed.
5178
5179 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5180 to write a maildirsize file.
5181
5182 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5183 the transport, the new value overrides.
5184
5185 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5186 count.
5187
518820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5189 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5190 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5191 space or a tab.
5192
519321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5194 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5195 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5196 the fallback hosts.
5197
519822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5199 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5200 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5201
520223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5203 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5204 using a union.
5205
520624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5207 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5208 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5209
521025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5211
521226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5213
521427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5215
521628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5217 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5218 become corrupted.
5219
522029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5221 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5222 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5223 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5224 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5225 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5226 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5227 too great.
5228
522930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5230 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5231 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5232 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5233 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5234 incorrectly.
5235
523631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5237 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5238 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5239 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5240 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5241 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5242 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5243 cached value only when the same options are set.
5244
524532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5246
524733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5248 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5249 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5250 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5251 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5252
525334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5254 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5255 it is clearly obsolete.
5256
525735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5258 transport.
5259
526036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5261 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5262 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5263 times.
5264
526537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5266 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5267 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5268 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5269 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5270
527138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5272 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5273 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5274 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5275
527639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5277
5278 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5279
5280 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5281 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5282 2^31.
5283
528440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5285 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5286 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5287 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5288 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5289 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5290 $localpart_data.
5291
529241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5293 with the -f command-line option.
5294
529542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5296 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5297 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5298 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5299 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5300 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5301
530243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5303 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5304 line.
5305
530644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5307 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5308 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5309 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5310 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5311 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5312 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5313 buffer is too small.
5314
531545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5316 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5317
531846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5319 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5320 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5321 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5322 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5323 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5324 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5325 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5326 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5327
532847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5329 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5330 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5331
533248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5333 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5334 ACL").
5335
533649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5337 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5338 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5339 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5340 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5341
534250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5343 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5344 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5345 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5346 is set.
5347
534851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5349
535052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5351
535253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5353 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5354
535554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5356 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5357 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5358
535955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5360 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5361 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5362 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5363 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5364
536556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5366 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5367 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5368 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5369 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5370 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5371 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5372
537357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5374 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5375 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5376 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5377 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5378 the test of how many are available.
5379
538058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5381 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5382 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5383 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5384 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5385 new message is started.
5386
538759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5388 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5389
539060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5391 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5392
539361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5394 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5395 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5396 is no long logged.
5397
539862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5399 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5400 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5401 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5402 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5403 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5404 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5405
540663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5407 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5408 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5409 interpreted as octal.
5410
541164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5412 setting.
5413
541465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5415 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5416 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5417 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5418 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5419 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5420
542166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5422 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5423 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5424 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5425
5426 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5427 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5428 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5429 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5430
5431 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5432 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5433 is a bug fix.
5434
5435 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5436 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5437
543867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5439
544068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5441 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5442 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5443 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5444
544569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5446 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5447 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5448 supplied", which is not helpful.
5449
545070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5451 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5452 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5453
545471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5455 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5456 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5457 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5458 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5459 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5460 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5461 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5462
546372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5464 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5465 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5466 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5467 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5468
546973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5470 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5471 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5472 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5473 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5474 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5475
547674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5477 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5478 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5479
548075. Added write_rejectlog option.
5481
548276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5483 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5484 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5485 variables.
5486
548777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5488
548978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5490 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5491 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5492 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5493 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5494 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5495 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5496 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5497
549879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5499 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5500 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5501 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5502 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5503
550480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5505 Haardt.
5506
550781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5508 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5509 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5510 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5511 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5512 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5513 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5514 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5515 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5516
5517
5518Exim version 4.30
5519-----------------
5520
5521 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5522 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5523 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5524
5525 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5526 fixed.
5527
5528 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5529 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5530 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5531
5532 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5533 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5534 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5535 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5536 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5537 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5538
5539 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5540 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5541 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5542 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5543 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5544 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5545 the Exim test suite.
5546
5547 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5548 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5549 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5550 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5551
5552 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5553 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5554 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5555 specify it in this variable.
5556
5557 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5558 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5559 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5560 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5561
5562 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5563 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5564 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5565 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5566
5567 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5568 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5569 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5570 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5571 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5572
5573 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5574
557510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5576 they are logged.
5577
557811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5579 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5580 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5581 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5582 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5583
558412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5585 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5586
558713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5588 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5589 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5590 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5591 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5592
559314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5594 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5595
559615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5597 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5598 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5599
560016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5601 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5602
560317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5604 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5605
560618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5607 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5608 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5609
561019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5611 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5612
561320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5614 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5615 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5616 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5617
561821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5619
562022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5621 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5622 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5623 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5624
562523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5626
562724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5628 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5629
563025. Added .include_if_exists.
5631
563226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5633 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5634 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5635 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5636 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5637 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5638
563927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5640
564128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5642 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5643 this.
5644
564529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5646
564730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5648 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5649
5650 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5651 550 Sender verify failed
5652
5653 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5654 the final line of the response.
5655
565631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5657 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5658 all other user lookups.
5659
566032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5661 delivery time.
5662
566333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5664 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5665 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5666 result into an int without checking.
5667
566834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5669 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5670 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5671
567235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5673 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5674 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5675 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5676
567736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5678 correctly.
5679
568037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5681 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5682
568338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5684 to the empty sender.
5685
568639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5687 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5688 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5689 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5690 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5691 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5692 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5693 panic log.
5694
569540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5696 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5697 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5698 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5699 used.
5700
570141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5702 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5703
570442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5705 timestamps.
5706
570743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5708 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5709
571044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5711
571245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5713 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5714 logs.
5715
571646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5717 as soon as it is encountered.
5718
571947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5720
572148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5722 rewritten to "<>".
5723
572449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5725 recognizes a tab character.
5726
572750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5728 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5729 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5730 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5731
573251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5733
573452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5735 crash.
5736
573753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5738
573954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5740
574155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5742 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5743 2822.
5744
574556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5746 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5747 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5748 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5749 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5750
575157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5752 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5753
575458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5755 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5756 list (.included file names were always shown).
5757
575859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5759 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5760 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5761 root at that time.
5762
576360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5764 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5765
576661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5767
576862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5769
577063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5771
577264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5773 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5774 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5775 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5776 failures to open the logs.
5777
577865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5779 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5780 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5781 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5782 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5783 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5784 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5785
5786
5787Exim version 4.24
5788-----------------
5789
5790 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5791 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5792 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5793 change 4.23/1.
5794
5795 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5796 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5797 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5798
5799 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5800 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5801 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5802
5803 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5804 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5805 causing some misleading effects.
5806
5807 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5808 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5809 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5810
5811 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5812 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5813 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5814 queue-runner function directly.
5815
5816
5817Exim version 4.23
5818-----------------
5819
5820 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5821 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5822
5823 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5824 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5825 was always written to the default place.
5826
5827 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5828 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5829 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5830
5831 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5832
5833 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5834
5835 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5836 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5837 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5838
5839 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5840 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5841 must start.
5842
5843 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5844 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5845 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5846
5847 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5848 command line option is disabled.
5849
5850 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5851 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5852
5853 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5854
5855 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5856
5857 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5858 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5859
586010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5861
586211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5863 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5864 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5865 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5866 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5867 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5868
586912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5870 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5871 timeout.
5872
587313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5874 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5875
587614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5877 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5878
587915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5880 received was valid base64.
5881
588216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5883 name of the variable that was being set.
5884
588517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5886
588718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5888 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5889 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5890 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5891 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5892 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5893
589419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5895
589620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5897 nor realm was specified.
5898
589921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5900 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5901 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5902 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5903
590422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5905 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5906 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5907
590823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5909 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5910 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5911
591224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5913 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5914 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5915 some systems use these upper case variants.
5916
591725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5918 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5919 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5920 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5921
592226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5923
592427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5925 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5926
592728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5928 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5929 expansion variable.
5930
593129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5932
593330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5934 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5935 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5936 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5937
593831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5939 using it.
5940
594132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5942 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5943 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5944
594533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5946 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5947
594834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5949 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5950 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5951 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5952
595335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5954 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5955 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5956
595736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5958
595937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5960 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5961 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5962 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5963 aborted.
5964
596538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5966 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5967 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5968
596939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5970
597140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5972 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5973
597441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5975 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5976
597742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5978 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5979 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5980 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5981 when emails are that large.
5982
5983
5984
5985Exim version 4.22
5986-----------------
5987
5988 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5989 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5990
5991 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5992 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5993 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5994
5995 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5996 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5997 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5998
5999 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6000 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6001 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6002 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6003 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6004
6005 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6006 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6007 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6008 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6009 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6010 ever.
6011
6012 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6013 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6014 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6015 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6016 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6017 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6018 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6019 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6020 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6021 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6022 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6023 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6024 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6025 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6026
6027 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6028 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6029 parameterised it.
6030
6031 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6032 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6033 error should be diagnosed.
6034
6035 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6036 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6037 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6038 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6039 appeared instead of "NULL".
6040
604110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6042 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6043 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6044 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6045 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6046 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6047 proceeds).
6048
6049 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6050 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6051 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6052
6053
6054Exim version 4.21
6055-----------------
6056
6057 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6058 or receiver verification errors.
6059
6060 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6061 name.
6062
6063 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6064 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6065 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6066 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6067
6068 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6069 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6070 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6071 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6072 shouldn't happen again.
6073
6074 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6075 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6076 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6077
6078 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6079 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6080
6081 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6082
6083 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6084 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6085
6086 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6087 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6088 RFC.
6089
609010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6091 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6092 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6093
609411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6095 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6096 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6097 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6098
609912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6100 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6101 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6102 to define what should happen).
6103
610413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6105 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6106 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6107
610814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6109
611015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6111
611216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6113 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6114
611517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6116 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6117 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6118 structure in all cases.
6119
6120 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6121 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6122 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6123 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6124
612518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6126 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6127 domain name.
6128
612919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6130 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6131
613220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6133 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6134
613521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6136 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6137 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6138
613922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6140 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6141 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6142
614323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6144 the book and for uniformity.
6145
614624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6147
614825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6149 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6150 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6151 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6152 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6153 non-existent command as the problem.
6154
615526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6156 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6157 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6158
615927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6160
616128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6162 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6163 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6164
616529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6166 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6167 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6168 timestamps using strftime().
6169
617030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6171 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6172
617332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6174 transport-time rewrites.
6175
617633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6177 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6178 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6179 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6180
618134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6182 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6183
618435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6185 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6186 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6187 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6188 comma and a space.
6189
619036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6191 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6192 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6193 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6194 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6195 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6196 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6197
619837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6199 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6200 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6201 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6202 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6203
620438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6205 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6206 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6207 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6208 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6209 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6210 remaining text gets split now.
6211
621239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6213 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6214 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6215 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6216
621740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6218 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6219 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6220 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6221 $return_path.
6222
622341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6224 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6225 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6226 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6227 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6228 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6229 passed through if needed.
6230
623142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6232 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6233 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6234 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6235 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6236 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6237
623843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6239 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6240 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6241 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6242 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6243
624444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6245 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6246 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6247 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6248 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6249
625045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6251 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6252 noticed.
6253
625446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6255 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6256 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6257 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6258 mayhem of various kinds.
6259
626047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6261 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6262 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6263 the right test for positive values.
6264
626548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6266 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6267 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6268 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6269 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6270 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6271 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6272 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6273 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6274 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6275 envelope.
6276
627749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6278 module.
6279
628050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6281 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6282 forbidding it.
6283
628451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6285 the existing equality matching.
6286
628752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6288 dealing with inode numbers.
6289
629053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6291 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6292 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6293
629454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6295 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6296 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6297 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6298 local_scan().
6299
630055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6301 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6302 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6303 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6304 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6305 relay addresses has also been removed.
6306
630756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6308
630957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6310 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6311 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6312
631358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6314 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6315 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6316 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6317 processing applies to CR:
6318
6319 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6320 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6321
6322 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6323 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6324 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6325 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6326
632759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6328 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6329 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6330
633160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6332 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6333 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6334 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6335 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6336 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6337 arisen.
6338
633961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6340 program routers.
6341
634262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6343 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6344 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6345 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6346 adds:
6347
6348 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6349
6350 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6351
6352 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6353
635463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6355 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6356 not considered personal.
6357
635864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6359
636065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6361
636266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6363
636467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6365 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6366 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6367 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6368 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6369 header lines, and spool format errors.
6370
637168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6372 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6373 for more flexibility.
6374
637569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6376 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6377 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6378
637970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6380 Sabourenkov.
6381
638271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6383 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6384 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6385 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6386 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6387 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6388 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6389 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6390 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6391
639272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6393 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6394 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6395 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6396 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6397 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6398 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6399
640073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6401 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6402 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6403
640474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6405 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6406 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6407 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6408 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6409 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6410 instead of killing the process with assert().
6411
641275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6413 than Unicode encoding.
6414
641576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6416 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6417 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6418 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6419
642077. Added process_log_path.
6421
642278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6423 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6424
642579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6426 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6427
642880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6429 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6430 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6431
643281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6433 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6434 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6435 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6436 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6437 were applied:
6438
6439 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6440 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6441 as invalid.
6442
644382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6444 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6445 they will be used during message reception.
6446
6447
6448Exim version 4.20
6449-----------------
6450
6451The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6452
6453****