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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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82JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
83 expanded.
84
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85JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
86
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87JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
88 it.
89
01a4a5c5 90JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 91 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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92 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
93 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
94
cb1d7830 95JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 96 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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97 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
98
610ff438 99JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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100 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
101 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
102 TLS connections
610ff438 103
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104JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
105 sites use this now.
106
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107JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
108 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
109 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
110 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
111 have a dsn_lasthop option.
112
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113JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
114 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 115 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 116
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117JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
118
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119JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
120 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
121
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122JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
123 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
124
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125JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
126 /defer_ok option.
127
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128JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
129 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
130
fd4d8871 131JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 132 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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133 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
134
135JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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136 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
137 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 138
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139JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
140 timeout value per server.
141
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142JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
143 now have the list separator specified.
144
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145JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
146 option values.
147
82c0c8ea 148JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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149 under OpenSSL.
150
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151JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
152
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153JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
154 rather than the verbs used.
155
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156JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
157 from 255 to 1024 chars.
158
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159JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
160
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161HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
162 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 163
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164JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
165 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
166
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167HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
168 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
169
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170JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
171
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172JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
173
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174JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
175 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
176 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
177 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
178
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179JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
180
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181JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
182 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
183
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184JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
185 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
186
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187JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
188
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189JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
190
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191JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
192
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193JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
194 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
195
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196JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
197 added for tls authenticator.
198
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202TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
203 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
204 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
205 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
206 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
207 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
208 the script parsing/test process like normal.
209
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210TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
211 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
212 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
213 function when detected.
214
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215JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
216 cause callback expansion.
217
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218TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
219 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
220 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
221 instead of bool when processing it.
222
0f06b4f2 223JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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224 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
225
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226JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
227
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228JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
229
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230TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
231
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232TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
233 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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235JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
236 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
237 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
238 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
239 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
240 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
241
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242JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
243 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
244 exceeded it.
245
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246JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
247 version 3.3.6 or later.
248
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249JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
250 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
251 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 252 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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253 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
254 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
255 option is defined.
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257TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
258 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
259
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260JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
261 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
262 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
263 matches.
264
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265JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
266 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
267 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
268
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269JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
270 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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271
272JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
273 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
274 syntax errors.
275
3394b36a 276JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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277
278JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
279 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
280
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281TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
282 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
283 tarball.
284
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285JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
286
287JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
288 Bug 1561.
289
290JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
291 output list separator was used.
292
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294Exim version 4.84
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296TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
297 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
298 return.
1f0ebb98 299
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300JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
301 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
302
303JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
304
305TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 306 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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311
312TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
313
314 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
315 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
316 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
317 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
318 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
319 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
320
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321TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
322 utilities have not been installed.
323
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324JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
325 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
326
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327TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
328 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
329
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330TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
331 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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332 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
333 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 334
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335JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
336
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337TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
338 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
339
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340PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
341 not dns_use_dnssec.
342
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343JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
344
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345TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
346 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
347 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
348
8ddef691 349TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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350 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
351 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
352 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
353 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 354 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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356JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
357
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358JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
359 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
360
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361JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
362 failed delivery.
363
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364JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
365
511a6c14 366JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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367
368JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
369 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 370
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371JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
372 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
373
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374TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
375
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376JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
377
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378JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
379 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
380
381 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
382 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
383 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
384
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385TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
386 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
387 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
388 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 389
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390JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
391
8c51eead 392JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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393 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
394 lookup).
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396TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
397 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
398 Schlichting.
35aba663 399
fd3b6a4a 400JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 401 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 402
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403TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
404 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
405
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406JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
407
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408TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
409 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
410 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
411
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412JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
413 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
414
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415JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
416 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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417 hosts_request_ocsp.
418
ed3bba5f 419JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 420 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 421 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 422
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423JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
424
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425TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
426 Christian Aistleitner.
427
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428JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
429
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430TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
431 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
432
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433JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
434 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
435
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436JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
437 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
438
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439TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
440 support and error reporting did not work properly.
441
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442TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
443 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
444
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445TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
446 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
447 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
448
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449JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
450
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451PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
452 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
453 Jasper Wallace.
454
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455JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
456
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457TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
458 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
459 CVE-2014-2972
460
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464
465PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
466
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467PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
468 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
469
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470PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
471 by GnuTLS.
472
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473PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
474 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
475 routines.
476
13363eba 477PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 478
66645890 479PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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480 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
481 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
482 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
483 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 484
a3fb9793 485PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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486 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
487 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
488 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 489 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 490 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 491
d27f98fe 492TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 493
6822b909
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494TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
495
e7568d51
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496TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
497 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
498
ae0e32ee 499TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 500 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 501 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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502
503TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 504
e2658fff
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505TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
506
83712b39
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507TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
508 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
509
976b7e9f
JH
510JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
511
be4a1376
JH
512JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
513
ec4b68e5
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514PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
515
d7148a07
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516NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
517 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 518
585121e2 519JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 520
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521PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
522 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
523 function.
a5f239e4 524
13d08c90
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525PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
526 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
527
bef3ea7f
JH
528JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
529 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
530 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 531
846726c5
JH
532JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
533
3a796370
JH
534JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
535
ea722490 536JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
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537 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
538
b1b05573
JH
539JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
540 Bugzilla 884.
541
362145b5
JH
542JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
543 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
544
3c0a92dc
JH
545JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
546 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
547
6d7c6175
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548PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
549 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 550 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 551
6f123593
JH
552JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
553 authenticators.
554
c8e2fc1e
JH
555JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
556 for control.
557
005ac57f
PP
558PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
559
3f1df0e3
PP
560PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
561 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
562 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
563 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
564
67bd1ab3
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565TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
566
567 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
568 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
569 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
570 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
571 the retry rules.
572
573 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
574 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
575 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
576
577 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
578 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
579 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
580 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
581
1ddeb334
TF
582 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
583 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
584 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
585 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
586 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
587 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
588 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
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589
590 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
591 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
592
326cdc37
TF
593TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
594
595 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
596
597 Resent-From: f
598
599 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
600 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
601 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
602 username as equal to the username.
603
604 This change corrects that bug.
605
f62514b3
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606GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
607 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
608 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
609
eb505532
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610TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
611
14c7b357
PP
612PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
613 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
614 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
615 NULL dereference and crash.
616
94eaf700
PP
617JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
618
6f5a440a
PP
619PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
620 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
621 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
622
514ee161
SC
623SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
624
fd98a5c6
JH
625JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
626 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
627 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
628 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
629 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
630 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
631 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
632 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
633 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
634 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
635 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
636
035c7f1e
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637PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
638 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
639
ff284120
PP
640PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
641 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
642 Bugzilla 880.
643
26e72755
PP
644PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
645 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
646 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
647 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
648 an empty string is now equivalent.
649
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650PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
651 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
652 not performing validation itself.
653
700d22f3
PP
654PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
655 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
656
fcc8e047
JH
657JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
658 Bugzilla 321, 823.
659
7142daca
PP
660TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
661
8c020188
PP
662PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
663 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
664 other false fix of the same issue.
665 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
666 Bugzilla 1363.
667
d13cdd30
PP
668PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
669 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
670
e2fbf4a2
PP
671PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
672 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
673 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
674
f4c1088b
PP
675PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
676 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
677 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
678
c5c2182f
PP
679TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
680
73431ca9
JH
681JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
682
2d07a215
TL
683TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
684 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
685
a30a8861
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686TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
687 Alexander Miroch.
688
33382dd9
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689TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
690 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
691 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
692 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
693 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 694
046172e6
TL
695TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
696 the src/util/ subdirectory.
697
581d7bee 698TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 699 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
700 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
701
702TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
703 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
704 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
705 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
706
237b2cf2
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707TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
708
9fc5a352
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709TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
710 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
711 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 712
b10e4ec2
TL
713TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
714
e2cebd74
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715TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
716 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
717 interaction.
718
719TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
720 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
721
2519e60d
TL
722TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
723 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
724
e78e6ecf 725
4263f395
PP
726Exim version 4.80.1
727-------------------
728
729PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
730 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 731 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 732
ea722490 733
b1770b6e 734Exim version 4.80
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736
737PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
738 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
739 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
740
23c7e742
NM
741NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
742
b322aac8
NM
743NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
744 improved.
745
4a891427
NM
746NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
747
c1e794ba 748PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 749
97753960
PP
750PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
751
752PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
753 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
754
df6303fa
PP
755PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
756 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
757
7e6a8985
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758PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
759 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
760
f1e05cc7 761PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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762 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
763 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 764
4c287009
PP
765PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
766
b98bb9ac
PP
767PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
768 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
769
4a6a987a
PP
770PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
771
c45dd180 772PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 773
7db8d074
PP
774PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
775 non-compliant senders.
776 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
777
eae0036b 778NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
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779 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
780 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
781
dec5017e
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782PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
783 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
784 in spool file corruption.
785
c80c5570
PP
786PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
787 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
788 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
789 "Got SSL error 2".
790
076b11e2
PP
791TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
792 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
793 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
794
5407bfff
JH
795JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
796 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
797
9e45c72b
PP
798JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
799
e74376d8
PP
800PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
801 diagnostics.
802 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
803
da3ad30d
PP
804PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
805 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
806 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
807
7be682ca
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808PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
809 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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810 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
811 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 812
ef840681
PP
813PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
814 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
815
5bfb4cdf
PP
816PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
817 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
818 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
819 resolver implementation change.
820
c6e95d22
PP
821PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
822 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
823
9cbad13b
PP
824PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
825
9ee44efb
PP
826PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
827
6a6084f8
PP
828PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
829 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
830
12dd53c7
PP
831PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
832 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
833
9e45c72b 834JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
835 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
836
17c76198
PP
837PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
838 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
839 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
840 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 841 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 842
53947857 843PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 844
eae0036b 845PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
846 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
847 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 848
9e45c72b 849JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 850
7390e768
PP
851PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
852 read-only, out of scope).
853 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
854
08488c86
PP
855PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
856 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
857 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
858 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
859
6475bd82
PP
860PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
861
81f91683
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862PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
863 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
864 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
865 real issues in debug logging.
866
5779e6aa
PP
867PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
868 assignment on my part. Fixed.
869
3375e053
PP
870PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
871 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
872 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
873
874PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
875 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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876 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
877 problems.
3375e053 878
9d26b8c0
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879PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
880 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
881
57eb9e91 882PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
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883 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
884 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
885 needs to override this, it can.
886
16880d1a
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887PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
888 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
889 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
890
a799883d
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891PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
892 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
893 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
894 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
895
3ecab157 896PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 897
0599f9cf 898
867fcbf5
PP
899Exim version 4.77
900-----------------
901
902PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
903 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
904
f1a29782
TF
905TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
906
ab42bd23
TK
907TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
908 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 909
0ca0cf52
TF
910TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
911 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
912
921b12ca
TF
913TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
914 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
915 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
916
917 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
918 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
919 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
920 not safe for signals.
921
922 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
923 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
924 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
925 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
926 exiwhat.
927
c99ce5c9
TF
928TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
929
930 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
931 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
932 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
933 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
934 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
935
936 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
937 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
938 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
939 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
940 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
941 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
942
943 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
944 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
945 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
946 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
947
948 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
949 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
950 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
951 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
952
953 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
954 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
955 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
956 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
957 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
958 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
959 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
960 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
961 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
962
963 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
964 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
965 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
966 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
967
968 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
969 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
970 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
971 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
972 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
973 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
974 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
975 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
976 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
977 details in the main documentation.
978
3634fc25
TF
979TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
980
792e8a19
TF
981TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
982
5901f0ab
TF
983TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
984 repository when doing development or release builds.
985
7f2a2a43
PP
986PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
987 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 988
061b7ebd
PP
989PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
990 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
991 Bugzilla 97.
992
e12f8c32
PP
993PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
994
9e949f00 995PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
996 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
997
998PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
999 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1000
555ae6af 1001PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1002 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1003
1004PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1005 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1006
6f7fe114
PP
1007PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1008 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1009
c566dd90
PP
1010PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1011 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1012 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1013 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1014
d6cc7c78 1015PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1016 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1017 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1018
0d0e4455
PP
1019PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1020
3399bb60 1021PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1022
1023PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1024 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1025
0ca0cf52 1026
10906672
PP
1027Exim version 4.76
1028-----------------
1029
1030PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1031
754a0503
PP
1032PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1033 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1034
c0c7b2da
PP
1035PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1036
e97d1f08
PP
1037PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1038
084c1d8c
PP
1039PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1040 Bugzilla 1098.
1041
4e7ee012
PP
1042PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1043 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1044
c8d52a00
PP
1045TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1046 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1047
54e7ce4a
PP
1048PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1049 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1050
5ee6f336
PP
1051PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1052 Bugzilla 1104.
1053
c8d52a00 1054TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1055 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1056
1057TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1058 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1059 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1060 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1061
1062PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1063 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1064
10906672 1065
aa097c4c
NM
1066Exim version 4.75
1067-----------------
1068
4c9ef03a 1069NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1070 Bugzilla 1073
1071
7f3d9eff
TF
1072TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1073 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1074 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1075
159f52d2
TF
1076TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1077 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1078
0cc9542a
PP
1079PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1080 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1081 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1082
f7274286
PP
1083PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1084 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1085
7b797365
PP
1086PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1087 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1088
caacae52
NM
1089NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1090 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1091
09dcaba9
NM
1092NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1093 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1094
bc19a55b
PP
1095PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1096 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1097
bd4c9759
NM
1098NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1099 Fixes bug 943.
1100
b72aab72
PP
1101PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1102 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1103
2fe76745
PP
1104PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1105 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1106
76aa570c
PP
1107PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1108 SQL string expansion failure details.
1109 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1110
f1e5fef5
PP
1111PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1112 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1113
4d805ee9
PP
1114PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1115 extern declarations in function scope.
1116 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1117
cd59ab18
PP
1118PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1119 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1120 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1121 a kernel bug).
1122
332f5cf3
PP
1123PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1124 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1125
29cfeb94
PP
1126PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1127 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1128
660242ad
PP
1129PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1130 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1131
bc4bc4c5
PP
1132PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1133 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1134
2e64baa9
NM
1135NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1136 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1137 Dennis Davis.
1138
bddd7526
PP
1139PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1140
6bac1a9a
PP
1141PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1142
552193f0
NM
1143NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1144 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1145
1b587e48
TF
1146TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1147 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1148
aa097c4c 1149
8c07b69f
TF
1150Exim version 4.74
1151-----------------
1152
1153TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1154 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1155
c0ea85ab
TF
1156TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1157 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1158
0761d44e
TF
1159TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1160
0a349494
PP
1161DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1162 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1163 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1164
1165PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1166 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1167 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1168
fea24b2e
PP
1169PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1170 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1171 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1172 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1173
6545de78
PP
1174PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1175 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1176 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1177 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1178
1670ef10
PP
1179PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1180 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1181 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1182 arbitrary files.
1183
c0886197
PP
1184PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1185 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1186
b7487bce
PP
1187PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1188 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1189 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1190 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1191 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1192
8c07b69f 1193
97fd1e48 1194Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1195-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1196
1197PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1198 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1199 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1200
6901c596
PP
1201PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1202 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1203
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1204JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1205
77bb000f
PP
1206PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1207
a29e5231
PP
1208PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1209
ec5a0394 1210PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1211
55c75993
PP
1212PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1213
453a6645 1214PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1215 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1216 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1217 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1218
8544e77a
PP
1219PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1220 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1221 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1222 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1223 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1224
83e029d5
PP
1225PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1226
ed7f7860
PP
1227PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1228
7d9f747b
PP
1229PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1230
4b2241d2
PP
1231PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1232
10385c15
PP
1233PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1234
dbc4b90d
PP
1235PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1236
532be449
PP
1237PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1238
6a8de854 1239PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1240 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1241 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1242
5dc43717
JJ
1243JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1244
1245JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1246 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1247
3346ab01
PP
1248PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1249 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1250
491fab4c
PP
1251PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1252 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1253 Notification from John Horne.
1254
13eb9497
PP
1255PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1256 compatible.
1257
1258PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1259 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1260 it normally works.
1261
7f36d675
DW
1262DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1263 access.
1264
c1d94452
DW
1265DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1266 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1267 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1268
e2f5dc15
DW
1269DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1270 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1271 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1272 configuration file.
1273
cd25e41d
DW
1274DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1275 option (effectively making it always true).
1276
261dc43e
DW
1277DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1278 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1279
fa32850b
DW
1280DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1281 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1282
79d4bc3d
PP
1283PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1284 run-time user, instead of root.
1285
43236f35 1286PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1287 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1288
fb08281f
DW
1289DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1290 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1291 arguments.
3346ab01 1292
74935b98
DW
1293DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1294 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1295 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1296
90b6341f
DW
1297DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1298
57730b52
ML
1299NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1300
66581d1e 1301
465e92cf
JJ
1302Exim version 4.72
1303-----------------
1304
453a6645
PP
1305JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1306 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1307 typos
465e92cf 1308
453a6645
PP
1309JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1310 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1311 (Finput)
edae0343 1312
9bd3e22c
NM
1313NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1314 Patch from Alain Williams
1315
bb576ff7
NM
1316NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1317
5a1a5845
NM
1318NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1319 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1320
981a9fad
NM
1321NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1322 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1323
7fc497ee
NM
1324NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1325
1a41defa
JJ
1326JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1327
a466095c 1328NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1329 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1330
94a6bd0b
NM
1331TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1332
1333TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1334
1335MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1336 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1337 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1338
c1b141a8
NM
1339NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1340 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1341
b26eacf1 1342NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1343 Patch by Simon Arlott
1344
179c5980 1345PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1346 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1347
9bd3e22c 1348
7c6d71af
NM
1349Exim version 4.71
1350-----------------
1351
7d9f747b 1352TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1353
f013fb92
NM
1354NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1355
0eb8eedd
NM
1356NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1357
663ee6d9
NM
1358NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1359
177ebd9b
NM
1360NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1361
7c6d71af 1362
210f147e
NM
1363Exim version 4.70
1364-----------------
1365
cdd3bb85 1366TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1367 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1368
1369TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1370 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1371 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1372
1373TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1374 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1375 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1376
1377TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1378 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1379
210f147e
NM
1380NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1381 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1382 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1383 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1384
deafd5b3
NM
1385NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1386 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1387 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1388
089793a4
TF
1389TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1390
5f16ca82
TF
1391TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1392
dae9d94e 1393NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1394 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1395
7d9f747b 1396NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1397
06864c44
TF
1398TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1399 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1400 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1401 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1402
65a7d8c3 1403NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1404 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1405
23510047 1406TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1407
7d9f747b 1408NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1409
7d8eec3a 1410NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1411 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1412
89dec7b6
TF
1413TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1414 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1415
a99de90c
TF
1416TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1417 that they are available at delivery time.
1418
e2803e40
TF
1419TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1420
7199e1ee
TF
1421TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1422 incoming_port log selectors.
1423
e276e04b
TF
1424TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1425 setting expands to an empty string.
1426
ce552449 1427NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1428 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1429
e765a0f1 1430NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1431 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1432
4f054c63 1433NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1434 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1435
7d9f747b
PP
1436NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1437 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1438
7d9f747b
PP
1439NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1440 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1441
b52bc06e 1442NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1443 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1444
447de4b0
NM
1445NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1446
4c69d561 1447NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1448 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1449
d5c39246 1450NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1451 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1452
0b23848a
TK
1453TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1454
8f3414a1 1455NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1456 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1457
fb6f955d
NM
1458NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1459
1460NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1461
7d9f747b
PP
1462NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1463 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1464
7d9f747b
PP
1465NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1466 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1467
7d9f747b
PP
1468NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1469 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1470
7d9f747b
PP
1471NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1472 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1473
7d9f747b
PP
1474NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1475 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1476
7d9f747b
PP
1477NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1478 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1479
7d9f747b
PP
1480NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1481 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1482
7d9f747b 1483NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1484 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1485
7d9f747b 1486NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1487
7d9f747b
PP
1488NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1489 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1490
7d9f747b 1491NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1492
7d9f747b 1493NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1494
7d9f747b 1495NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1496
7d9f747b 1497NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1498
17792b53 1499NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1500 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1501
7d9f747b
PP
1502NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1503 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1504
91576cec 1505NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1506 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1507
7d9f747b
PP
1508NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1509 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1510
7d9f747b 1511NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1512
7d9f747b 1513NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1514
7d9f747b 1515NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1516
7d9f747b 1517NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1518
deafd5b3 1519
47db1125
NM
1520Exim version 4.69
1521-----------------
1522
4b3504d0
TK
1523TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1524 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1525 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1526
1527 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1528 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1529 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1530 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1531 build errors in sieve.c.
1532
81ea09ca
NM
1533NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1534 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1535 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1536
f13cddcb
SC
1537SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1538
7d9f747b 1539NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1540
7d9f747b 1541NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1542
7d9f747b 1543NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1544
1545
eb4c0de6
PH
1546Exim version 4.68
1547-----------------
1548
1549PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1550
6a3bceb1
PH
1551PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1552 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1553 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1554 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1555 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1556 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1557 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1558 for iplsearch lookups.
1559
1560 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1561 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1562 previously such lookups could never work.
1563
1564 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1565 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1566 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1567
2e30fa9d
TK
1568TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1569 version.
1570
0806a9c5
MH
1571MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1572 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1573 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1574 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1575 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1576 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1577
ae276964
TK
1578TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1579 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1580
0f2cbd1b
MH
1581MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1582 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1583 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1584 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1585 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1586 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1587
2b85bce7
PH
1588PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1589 local_scan API.
1590
93655c46
PH
1591PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1592
6c512171
PH
1593PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1594 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1595 encrypted.
1596
1597PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1598 by clients under certain conditions.
1599
aa6dc513
PH
1600PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1601 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1602
a96603a0
PH
1603PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1604
8f240103
PH
1605PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1606 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1607
1608PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1609
d677b2f2
PH
1610PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1611
d52120f2
PH
1612PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1613
64f2600a
PH
1614PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1615 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1616
8669f003
PH
1617PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1618
a4dc33a8
PH
1619PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1620 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1621
d6a60c0f
PH
1622PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1623
8f128379
PH
1624PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1625
8932dffe
PH
1626PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1627 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1628 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1629 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1630
ddea74fa 1631PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1632 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1633 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1634
ddea74fa 1635PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1636 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1637
ddea74fa
PH
1638PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1639
ce9f225c
PH
1640PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1641
19897d52
PH
1642PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1643
bc64a74d
PH
1644PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1645 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1646 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1647
eb4c0de6 1648
b4ed4da0
PH
1649Exim version 4.67
1650-----------------
1651
22ad45c9
MH
1652MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1653 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1654 Jan Srzednicki.
1655
b4ed4da0
PH
1656PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1657 issue a MAIL command.
1658
431b7361
PH
1659PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1660
1661 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1662
1663 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1664 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1665 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1666 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1667 item. This has been fixed.
1668
1669PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1670 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1671
83da1223
PH
1672PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1673 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1674
54fc8428
PH
1675PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1676 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1677 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1678
34c5e8dd
SC
1679SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1680
bbe15da8
PH
1681PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1682 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1683 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1684 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1685 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1686
0e8a9471
MH
1687MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1688 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1689 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1690
f0872424
PH
1691PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1692 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1693 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1694 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1695
b01dd148
PH
1696PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1697
6bf342e1
PH
1698PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1699
273f34d0
PH
1700PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1701 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1702 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1703 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1704 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1705
cf8b11a5
PH
1706PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1707
41c7c167
PH
1708PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1709 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1710 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1711 values).
1712
9c57cbc0
PH
1713PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1714
f3f065bb
PH
1715PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1716
047bdd8c
PH
1717PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1718
0ce9abe6
PH
1719PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1720
0e22dfd1
PH
1721PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1722
4c590bd1
PH
1723PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1724 no_callout_flush is set.
1725
09945f1e
PH
1726PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1727 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1728 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1729 fixed.
1730
c51b8e75
PH
1731PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1732
e28326d8
PH
1733PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1734 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1735 other ACL rejections are.
1736
75b1493f
PH
1737PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1738 with slight modification.
1739
7c5214ec
PH
1740PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1741 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1742
4311097e
PH
1743PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1744 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1745 connection.
1746
29f89cad
PH
1747PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1748 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1749
5e687460
SC
1750SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1751
c3611384
PH
1752PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1753 expansion side effects.
1754
5a11a7b4
PH
1755PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1756 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1757 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1758 be the same.
1759
0e20aff9
MH
1760MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1761 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1762 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1763
ca86f471
PH
1764PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1765 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1766 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1767 were accidentally chopped off.
1768
a14e5636
PH
1769PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1770 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1771 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1772 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1773 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1774 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1775 pipelining has not been advertised.
1776
ec95d1a6
PH
1777PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1778
42855d71
PH
1779PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1780 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1781 This has been fixed.
1782
57c2c631
PH
1783PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1784 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1785 reported on Solaris.
1786
58c01c94
PH
1787PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1788 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1789 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1790 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1791 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1792 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1793 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1794
dee5a20a
PH
1795PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1796 cpus.
1797
d2ee6114
PH
1798PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1799
b2d5182b
PH
1800PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1801
79749a79
PH
1802PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1803 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1804 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1805 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1806 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1807 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1808
c456d9bb
PH
1809PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1810 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1811 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1812 host_all_ignored option.
1813
cd9868ec
PH
1814PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1815 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1816 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1817 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1818 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1819 is what is supposed to happen).
1820
ebeaf996
PH
1821PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1822 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1823 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1824 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1825 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1826 uses the Exim user.
1827
2679d413
PH
1828PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1829 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1830 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1831 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1832 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1833 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1834 users.
1835
84024b72
PH
1836PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1837
8005d38e
SC
1838SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1839 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1840 (Jez Hancock).
1841 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1842 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1843
3298c6c6
SC
1844SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1845
a43a27c5
PH
1846PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1847
58eb016e 1848PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1849 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1850 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1851 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1852 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1853 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1854 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1855 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1856 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1857 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1858 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1859
b43a74ea
PH
1860PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1861 advertised in response to EHLO.
1862
b4ed4da0 1863
5dd1517f
PH
1864Exim version 4.66
1865-----------------
1866
1867PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1868 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1869
1870 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1871 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1872
1873 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1874 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1875 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1876
1877 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1878 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1879 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1880 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1881 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1882
1883
93cfa765
TK
1884Exim version 4.65
1885-----------------
1886
1887TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1888 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1889 versions. (#438)
1890
d6066548
MH
1891MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1892 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1893 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1894
4362ff0d
PH
1895PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1896 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1897 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1898 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1899 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1900 rather than extend the field.
1901
93cfa765 1902
944e9e9c
TF
1903Exim version 4.64
1904-----------------
aa41d2de 1905
21d74bd9
TK
1906TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1907 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1908 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1909 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1910 these files.
1911
1912TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1913 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1914 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1915
1916TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1917 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1918 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1919
1920TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1921 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1922 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1923 in the field name.
1924
2b1c6e3a
PH
1925PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1926 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1927 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1928 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1929 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1930 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1931 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1932 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1933 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1934 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1935 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1936
1f872c80
PH
1937PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1938 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1939
1940PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1941 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1942 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1943 ignores EPIPE as well.
1944
d203e649
PH
1945PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1946 (quoted-printable decoding).
1947
cc2ed8f7 1948PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1949 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1950
ddfcd446
PH
1951PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1952
d45b1de8
PH
1953PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1954
1955PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1956
38a0a95f 1957PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1958 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1959
a2405d83
JJ
1960JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1961 in 4.64-PH/09.
1962
1963JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1964 miscellaneous code fixes
1965
6ea85e9a
PH
1966PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1967 rejections.
1968
26da7e20
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1969PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1970 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1971 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1972 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1973 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1974 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1975 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1976 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1977
14aa5a05 1978PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1979 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1980 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1981 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1982 function.
1983 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1984 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1985 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1986 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1987 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1988 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1989 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1990 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1991 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1992
ff75a1f7
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1993PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1994 decoding.
1995
e6f6568e
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1996PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1997 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1998 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1999 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2000 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2001 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2002 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2003 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2004
d6f6e0dc
PH
2005PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2006 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2007 list.
2008
322050c2
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2009PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2010 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2011 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2012 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2013 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2014 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2015 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2016 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2017 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2018 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2019 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2020 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2021 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2022
08955dd3
PH
2023PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2024 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2025 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2026 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2027 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2028 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2029 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2030
1eccaa59
PH
2031PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2032 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2033 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2034 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2035 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2036 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2037 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2038 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2039 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2040 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2041
602e59e5
PH
2042PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2043 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2044 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2045 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2046 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2047
411ef850
PH
2048PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2049 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2050 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2051 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2052 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2053 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2054 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2055
7befa435
PH
2056PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2057 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2058 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2059 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2060 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2061 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2062 been verified.
2063
48da4259 2064PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2065 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2066 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2067 and authorization.)
2068
48da4259
PH
2069PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2070 if any retry times were supplied.
2071
d1d5595c
PH
2072PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2073 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2074 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2075
0ef732d9
PH
2076PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2077
328895cc
PH
2078PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2079
fd700877
PH
2080PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2081 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2082 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2083 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2084 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2085 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2086
8dce1a6f
PH
2087PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2088 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2089
17af4a17
PH
2090PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2091 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2092 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2093
2094PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2095 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2096 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2097 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2098 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2099 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2100 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2101 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2102 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2103
2104 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2105 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2106 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2107 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2108 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2109 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2110 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2111 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2112 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2113
2114 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2115 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2116 hammering the server.
2117
c1114884
PH
2118PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2119 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2120
7a0743eb
PH
2121PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2122
0d85fa3f
PH
2123PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2124 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2125 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2126
1bf43b78
PH
2127PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2128 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2129 one case where this was not true.
2130
520de300
PH
2131PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2132 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2133 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2134 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2135 fails.
2136
48c7f9e2
PH
2137PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2138 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2139 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2140 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2141 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2142 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2143 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2144 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2145 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2146 smtp transport.
2147
99ea1c86
PH
2148PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2149 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2150 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2151 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2152
a2042e78
PH
2153PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2154 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2155
4fbcfc2e
PH
2156PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2157 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2158 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2159
aa41d2de
PH
2160PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2161
af561417
PH
2162PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2163
3cc66b45
PH
2164PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2165
194cc0e4
PH
2166PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2167 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2168 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2169 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2170
a401ddaa
PH
2171PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2172 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2173
4e88a19f
PH
2174PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2175 be meaningful with "accept".
2176
d7d7b289
SC
2177SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2178 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2179
2180SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2181 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2182 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2183
2184SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2185 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2186 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2187 there is data to show.
2188 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2189
2190SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2191 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2192 as well as the number of messages.
2193
2194SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2195 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2196 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2197
2198SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2199 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2200 have a flag are now skipped.
2201
2202SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2203 Added the -emptyok flag.
2204
2205SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2206 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2207
0ea2a468
JJ
2208JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2209 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2210 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2211
2212JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2213 match 4.64-PH/13
2214
2215JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2216 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2217
2218JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2219
2220JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2221 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2222
8a10f5a4
PH
2223PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2224
30e18802
PH
2225PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2226 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2227 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2228 contravention of the specifications.
2229
55728a4f
PH
2230PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2231 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2232 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2233
d7837193
PH
2234PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2235 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2236 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2237
87054a31
PH
2238PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2239
ea2c01d2
MH
2240MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2241 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2242 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2243 some point in the past.
2244
e4fa6968
PH
2245PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2246 transport during callout processing was broken.
2247
56f5d9bd
PH
2248PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2249 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2250
922e1c28
PH
2251PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2252 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2253
21eb6e72
PH
2254PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2255 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2256
a0540757
PH
2257PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2258
944e9e9c 2259
478be7b0
SC
2260Exim version 4.63
2261-----------------
2262
2263SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2264 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2265
2266SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2267 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2268 there is data to show.
2269 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2270
2271SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2272 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2273
2b965a65
TF
2274TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2275 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2276
45b91596
PH
2277TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2278 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2279
c59f5781
TF
2280TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2281 submissions from trusted users.
2282
90fc3069
TF
2283TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2284 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2285
6083aca0
TF
2286TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2287 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2288 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2289 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2290 there is now a framework to start from.
2291
765b530f
PH
2292PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2293 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2294 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2295
4e167a8c
PH
2296PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2297
4608d683
PH
2298PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2299
b8dc3e4a
PH
2300PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2301
5418e93b
PH
2302PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2303 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2304 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2305
b4a9bda2
PH
2306PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2307 libradius.
2308
45b91596
PH
2309PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2310 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2311 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2312
5547e2c5
PH
2313PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2314 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2315 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2316 its arguments.
2317
dbcef0ea
PH
2318PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2319 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2320 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2321 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2322 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2323
25257489
PH
2324PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2325 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2326
c816d124
PH
2327PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2328
a9ccd69a
PH
2329PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2330 operations in malware.c.
2331
75fa1910
PH
2332PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2333 signatures.
2334
a7d7aa58
PH
2335PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2336 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2337 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2338 all.
2339
42119b09
PH
2340PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2341 statements to "add_header".
2342
41609df5
PH
2343PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2344 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2345
a5bd321b
PH
2346PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2347 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2348 latter.
2349
e85a7ad5 2350PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2351 so that it is now:
2352
e85a7ad5
PH
2353 ${if or { \
2354 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2355 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2356 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2357 }{no}{yes}}
2358
e85a7ad5
PH
2359 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2360 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2361
d8fe1c03
PH
2362PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2363 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2364
16282d2b
PH
2365PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2366 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2367 any possible encoding problems.
2368
35d40a98
PH
2369PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2370 but not after initializing Perl.
2371
034d99ab
PH
2372PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2373 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2374 apparently, which is not desirable.
2375
6ec97b1b
PH
2376PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2377 queries.
2378
e22ca4ac
JJ
2379JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2380 --not options
2381
2382JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2383
33d73e3b
PH
2384PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2385 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2386 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2387 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2388
9ecb03f3
PH
2389PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2390 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2391 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2392
084efe8d
PH
2393PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2394 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2395 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2396 0.12.
2397
366fc9f0
PH
2398PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2399 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2400 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2401 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2402 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2403
c59f5781 2404
c887c79e
TF
2405Exim version 4.62
2406-----------------
2407
2408TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2409 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2410
1cce3af8
PH
2411PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2412 patch).
2413
afb3eaaf
PH
2414PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2415 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2416 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2417 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2418 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2419 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2420 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2421 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2422 451 error is used.
2423
e173618b
PH
2424PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2425
dd16e114
PH
2426PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2427 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2428 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2429
f7fd3850
PH
2430PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2431 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2432 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2433 odd errors.
2434
d87df92c
PH
2435PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2436 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2437
7e9f683d
PH
2438PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2439 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2440 option (which defaults to 0600).
2441
bfad5236
PH
2442PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2443
01c490df
PH
2444PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2445 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2446 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2447 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2448 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2449 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2450 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2451
d6629cdc
PH
2452PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2453
1cce3af8 2454
214e2000
PH
2455Exim version 4.61
2456-----------------
2457
2458PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2459 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2460 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2461 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2462 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2463 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2464 addresses as local.
2465
f9daeae0
PH
2466PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2467 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2468
7e66e54d
PH
2469PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2470
c8ea1597
PH
2471PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2472 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2473 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2474 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2475 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2476 grumble.
2477
911f6fde
PH
2478PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2479 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2480
47ca6d6c
PH
2481PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2482 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2483 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2484 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2485 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2486
ed0e9820
PH
2487PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2488 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2489 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2490 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2491
eff37e47
PH
2492PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2493 be the same on different OS.
2494
1921d2ea
PH
2495PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2496 testing.
2497
b3f69ca8
JJ
2498JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2499 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2500
2501JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2502 in 4.61-PH/06
2503
424a1c63
PH
2504PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2505 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2506 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2507 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2508 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2509 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2510 bounce message.
2511
7a100415
PH
2512PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2513 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2514 when Exim was called.
2515
19b9dc85
PH
2516PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2517 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2518
309bd837
PH
2519PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2520 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2521 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2522 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2523
59e82a2a
PH
2524PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2525 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2526 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2527 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2528 changes:
2529
2530 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2531 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2532 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2533
2534 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2535 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2536 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2537
9edc04ce
PH
2538PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2539 feature).
2540
1349e1e5
PH
2541PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2542 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2543 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2544 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2545 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2546 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2547 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2548 values from the SRV records were lost.
2549
ea49d0e1
PH
2550PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2551 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2552 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2553
064a94c9
PH
2554PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2555 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2556 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2557
727071f8
PH
2558PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2559 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2560 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2561 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2562 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2563 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2564 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2565 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2566 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2567 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2568
f78eb7c6
PH
2569PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2570 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2571 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2572
21c28500
PH
2573PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2574 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2575
2576PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2577 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2578 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2579 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2580 is given.
2581
1688f43b
PH
2582PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2583 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2584 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2585
2586PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2587 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2588 PH/23 above applies.
2589
9675b384
PH
2590PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2591 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2592 (for which there is an explicit test).
2593
6a3f1455
PH
2594PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2595
dac79d3e
PH
2596PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2597 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2598 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2599 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2600 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2601
5977a0b3
PH
2602PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2603 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2604 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2605 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2606
c91535f3
PH
2607PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2608 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2609 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2610
0d46a8c8
PH
2611PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2612
278c6e6c
PH
2613PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2614
2cbb4081
PH
2615PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2616 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2617 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2618
3eef829e
PH
2619PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2620 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2621 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2622 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2623 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2624
1ab95fa6
PH
2625PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2626 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2627 the message gets confusing).
2628
230205fc
PH
2629PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2630 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2631 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2632 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2633
75e0e026
PH
2634PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2635 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2636 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2637 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2638 same order.
2639
2640PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2641 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2642 the different processes.
2643
145396a6
PH
2644PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2645
3cd34f13
PH
2646PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2647
11121d3d
JJ
2648JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2649 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2650
2651JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2652 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2653
2654JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2655 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2656 messages matching specified criteria.
2657
8def5aaf
PH
2658PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2659
929ba01c
PH
2660PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2661 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2662
2632889e
PH
2663PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2664 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2665 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2666 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2667 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2668 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2669 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2670 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2671 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2672 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2673
944a9c55
PH
2674PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2675 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2676 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2677
4a23603b
PH
2678PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2679
4730f942
PH
2680PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2681 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2682 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2683 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2684 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2685 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2686 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2687 the variable.
2688
30dba1e6
PH
2689PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2690 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2691
382afc6b
PH
2692PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2693
a86229cf
PH
2694PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2695
50c99ba6
PH
2696PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2697
d35e429d
PH
2698PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2699 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2700 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2701 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2702 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2703 size of the count of files.
2704
f90d018c
PH
2705PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2706
75def545
PH
2707PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2708 used in LMTP mode:
2709
2710 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2711 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2712 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2713 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2714
2715 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2716 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2717 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2718
2719PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2720 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2721 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2722 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2723 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2724
c46782ef
PH
2725PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2726 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2727
71fafd95
PH
2728PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2729 will now be deprecated.
2730
2c5db4fd
PH
2731PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2732
9cf6b11a
JJ
2733JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2734 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2735 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2736
2737JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2738 with very large, slow to parse queues
2739
2740JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2741
2742JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2743
898d150f
PH
2744PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2745 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2746 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2747 SMTP output lines.
2748
46218253
PH
2749PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2750 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2751 Sieve code now uses this.
2752
e97957bc
PH
2753PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2754 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2755
81e509d7
PH
2756PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2757 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2758
3d240ff7
PH
2759PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2760
b37c4101
PH
2761PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2762 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2763 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2764 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2765 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2766
79378e0f
PH
2767PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2768 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2769 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2770 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2771
e49c7bb4
PH
2772PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2773
d114ec46
PH
2774PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2775
f3d7df6c
PH
2776PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2777 is preferred over IPv4.
2778
715ab376
PH
2779PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2780 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2781 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2782 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2783 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2784 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2785 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2786
6b31b150
PH
2787PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2788 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2789 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2790
2791PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2792
d515a917
PH
2793PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2794 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2795 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2796 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2797 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2798 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2799 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2800 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2801 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2802 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2803 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2804
9b8fadde
PH
2805PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2806 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2807 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2808
214e2000 2809
5de37277
PH
2810Exim version 4.60
2811-----------------
2812
cc38ddbf
PH
2813PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2814
2815 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2816 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2817
2818 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2819 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2820 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2821
72fdd6ae
PH
2822PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2823
2824 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2825 not a single digit.
2826
2827 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2828 string.
2829
2830 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2831 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2832 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2833 silly things.
2834
2835 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2836 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2837
2838 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2839 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2840
cb741023
PH
2841PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2842 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2843 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2844
f174f16e
PH
2845PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2846 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2847
c25242d7
PH
2848PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2849 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2850
2851 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2852
2853 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2854 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2855 this:
2856
2857 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2858
82c19f95
PH
2859PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2860 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2861 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2862 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2863 identical. For example:
2864
2865 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2866
2867 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2868 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2869 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2870
d7ffbc12
PH
2871PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2872 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2873 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2874 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2875
9f526266
PH
2876PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2877 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2878 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2879 message.
2880
87fcc8b9
PH
2881PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2882
2883 o fixes some comments
2884 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2885 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2886 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2887 and documents the missing references header update
2888
2889 and most important:
2890
2891 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2892 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2893 result)
2894
456682f5
PH
2895PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2896 Electronic Mail") by including:
2897
2898 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2899
2900 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2901 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2902 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2903 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2904 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2905
2906 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2907
2908 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2909
2910 The auto-replied keyword:
2911
2912 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2913 message by an automatic process,
2914
2915 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2916
2917 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2918 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2919
2920 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2921 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2922 other messages.
2923
3e46c1aa
PH
2924PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2925 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2926
49826d12
PH
2927PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2928
eba0c039
PH
2929PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2930 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2931 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2932
a0d6ba8a
PH
2933PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2934 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2935 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2936
f0917727
PH
2937PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2938 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2939 and treats the condition as false.
2940
096fee00
PH
2941PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2942
024bd3c2
PH
2943PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2944 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2945 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2946 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2947 not changing the active code.
2948
2949 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2950 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2951
2952 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2953 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2954
df199fec
PH
2955PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2956 (Bugzilla #53).
2957
d27f1df3
PH
2958PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2959 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2960 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2961 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2962 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2963 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2964 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2965 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2966 the text comparison.
2967
96776534
PH
2968PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2969 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2970 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2971 The same fix has been applied.
2972
5de37277 2973
9a799bc0
PH
2974Exim version 4.54
2975-----------------
2976
2977PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2978 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2979 It now does.
2980
99a4b039
PH
2981PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2982 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2983
2984PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2985
4b233853
PH
2986PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2987 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2988 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2989 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2990 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2991
8857ccfd
PH
2992TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2993 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2994 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2995 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2996 or /domain=).
2997
433a2980
PH
2998PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2999 testing suite.
3000
3e46c1aa 3001
9a799bc0 3002
e3a311ba
TK
3003Exim version 4.53
3004-----------------
3005
3006TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3007 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3008
13b685f9
PH
3009PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3010
395ff96d
PH
3011PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3012
5b68f6e4
PH
3013PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3014 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3015 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3016
1ab52c69
PH
3017PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3018 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3019 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3020
b07e6aa3
PH
3021PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3022 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3023 operating systems.
3024
254e032f
PH
3025PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3026 ${stat: expansion item.
3027
3af76a81
PH
3028PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3029 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3030
2548ba04
PH
3031PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3032 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3033 file for comments.
3034
b6c6011d
PH
3035PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3036
cf39cf57
PH
3037PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3038 setting.
3039
f1513293
PH
3040PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3041 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3042
727549a4
PH
3043TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3044
af46795e
PH
3045PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3046 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3047 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3048 the end of the subprocess.
3049
d7b47fd0
PH
3050PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3051 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3052 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3053 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3054 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3055
ee744174
JJ
3056JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3057
b582ab87
PH
3058TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3059
41a13e0a
PH
3060PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3061 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3062
f625cc5a
PH
3063PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3064
3065PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3066
21f7af35
PH
3067PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3068 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3069 HP-UX compiler.
3070
31480e42
PH
3071PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3072
2d280592
PH
3073PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3074 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3075 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3076
7cd1141b
PH
3077PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3078 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3079
3080PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3081 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3082
750af86e
PH
3083PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3084 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3085
3086 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3087 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3088
3089 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3090 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3091 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3092 contributed by a Radius user.
3093
3094PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3095 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3096
4304270b
TK
3097TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3098 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3099
750af86e
PH
3100PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3101 available.
3102
64ffc24f
PH
3103PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3104 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3105 received.
3106
5dd9625b
PH
3107PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3108 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3109 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3110 header lines when this was not necessary.
3111
5591031b
PH
3112PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3113
ba18e66a
PH
3114PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3115 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3116 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3117 exists".
3118
9cec981f
PH
3119PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3120 -bV or -d is used.
3121
aa2b5c79
PH
3122PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3123 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3124 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3125 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3126
48a53b7f
PH
3127PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3128
1c59d63b
PH
3129PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3130
671012da
TK
3131TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3132
1509d3a8
PH
3133PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3134
3135PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3136 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3137 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3138 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3139 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3140 settings.
3141
3142PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3143
2fe1a124
PH
3144PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3145 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3146 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3147 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3148 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3149 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3150 which is clearly wrong.
3151
8800895a
PH
3152PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3153
ccfdb010
PH
3154PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3155 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3156 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3157 subsequently added.
3158
1130bfb0
PH
3159PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3160 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3161
ebcb507f
PH
3162PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3163
c35e155c
PH
3164PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3165 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3166
95d1f782
PH
3167PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3168 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3169
fd6de02e
PH
3170PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3171 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3172
58de37c5
PH
3173PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3174 recipients, not senders.
3175
261cf466
TF
3176TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3177 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3178
3ee512ff
PH
3179PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3180
e08c430f
PH
3181PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3182
bef5a11f
PH
3183PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3184 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3185 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3186 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3187
7546de58
TF
3188TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3189
e5d5a95f
TF
3190TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3191 clock is set back in time.
3192
2e88a017
TF
3193TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3194 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3195
a5f65aa4
TF
3196TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3197 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3198
e7726cbf
PH
3199PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3200 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3201 (see PH/47 above).
3202
a7fdad5b
TF
3203TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3204 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3205 header rewrites.
3206
6af56900
PH
3207PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3208 type ("H").
3209
0925ede6
PH
3210PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3211
66afa403
TF
3212TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3213 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3214 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3215
0154e85a
TF
3216TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3217 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3218 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3219 helo verification defer as a failure.
3220
16f12c76
PH
3221PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3222 actual error message.
3223
bbe902f0 3224
e5a9dba6
PH
3225Exim version 4.52
3226-----------------
3227
3228TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3229
22c3b60b
PH
3230PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3231 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3232 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3233 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3234
06a9b4b5
PH
3235TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3236
c1ac6996
PH
3237PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3238 can still be requested.
3239
9c7a242c
PH
3240PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3241 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3242 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3243 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3244
87ba3f5f
PH
3245TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3246 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3247 circumstances, but probably never did.
3248
3249PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3250 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3251 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3252 in the header line.
3253
29aba418
TF
3254TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3255
fe0dab11
TF
3256TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3257 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3258
11d337a4
TK
3259TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3260
3261TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3262
415c8f3b
PH
3263PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3264 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3265 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3266 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3267 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3268 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3269
958541e9
PH
3270PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3271 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3272 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3273 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3274 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3275 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3276
c206415f
TK
3277TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3278 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3279
2a4be8f9
PH
3280PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3281 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3282
1cba11c5
SC
3283SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3284 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3285
3286SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3287
3288SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3289
3290SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3291
3292SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3293
3294SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3295
3296SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3297
1005d00e
TK
3298TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3299
3300TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3301 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3302 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3303
3304TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3305 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3306 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3307 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3308
9b4768fa
PH
3309PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3310 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3311 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3312
3313PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3314 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3315 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3316 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3317
0d7eb84a
PH
3318PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3319 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3320 to be made).
3321
3322PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3323 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3324 should work with maildirs and everything.
3325
40727bee
TK
3326TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3327 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3328
554d2369
TF
3329TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3330 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3331
1f922db1
PH
3332PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3333 function for BDB 4.3.
3334
ef213c3b
PH
3335PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3336
8ac170f3
PH
3337PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3338 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3339 involved.
3340
b1c749bb
PH
3341PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3342 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3343 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3344 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3345 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3346 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3347
4aac9b49
PH
3348PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3349 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3350 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3351 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3352 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3353 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3354 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3355 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3356
294520c8
TK
3357TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3358 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3359 details.
3360
5bd022fe
PH
3361PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3362 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3363
90e9ce59
PH
3364PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3365 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3366 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3367 test. It is now used for both.
3368
5ea81592
PH
3369PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3370 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3371 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3372 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3373 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3374 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3375
c6c2dc1d
PH
3376PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3377 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3378 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3379 string_vformat().
3380
fffffe4c
PH
3381PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3382 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3383 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3384
9a26b6b2
PH
3385PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3386 experimental DomainKeys support:
3387
3388 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3389 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3390 the control was given.
3391
3392 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3393
4aee0225
PH
3394PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3395
32d668a5
PH
3396PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3397
8187c3f3
PH
3398PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3399 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3400 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3401 db.h files).
3402
ff790e47 3403PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3404 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3405 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3406 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3407 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3408 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3409 course.
ff790e47 3410
5417f6d1
PH
3411PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3412 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3413 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3414 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3415 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3416 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3417
59cf8544
PH
3418PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3419 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3420 do -d+all out of habit.
3421
e7ad8a65
PH
3422PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3423 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3424 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3425
ade42478
PH
3426PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3427 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3428 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3429 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3430 record types that Exim uses.
3431
182ad5cf
PH
3432PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3433 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3434 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3435 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3436 non-existent file that was broken.
3437
b0d9fc80
TK
3438TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3439 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3440
3441TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3442 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3443 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3444
3445TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3446
47c7a64a
PH
3447PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3448 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3449 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3450 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3451 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3452 same time.
3453
a388bce4
SC
3454SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3455 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3456 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3457 at a slight CPU cost.
3458
3459SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3460 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3461
3462SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3463 by Marc Sherman.
3464
0793e4ed
SC
3465SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3466
c58b88df
PH
3467PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3468 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3469
e7ad8a65 3470
7982096b
PH
3471Exim version 4.51
3472-----------------
3473
1a46a8c5
PH
3474TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3475 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3476
2f079f46 3477TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3478
3479TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3480
3481PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3482 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3483
3484PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3485 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3486 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3487 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3488 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3489 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3490 file.
3491
3492PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3493 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3494 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3495 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3496 these two options.
3497
3498PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3499 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3500 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3501 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3502 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3503 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3504 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3505 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3506
3507PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3508 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3509
3510PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3511 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3512 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3513 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3514 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3515 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3516
3517PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3518 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3519 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3520 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3521
3522PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3523 Finch).
3524
3525PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3526 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3527
49c2d5ea
PH
3528PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3529 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3530 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3531 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3532 message.
49c2d5ea 3533
bf759a8b
PH
3534PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3535
83364d30
PH
3536PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3537 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3538
7999bbd7
PH
3539PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3540 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3541 to what was transported.)
3542
7dbf77c9
PH
3543TF/01 Added $received_time.
3544
74e0617f
PH
3545PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3546 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3547 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3548 spamd_address settings.
3549
2f079f46
PH
3550PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3551 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3552 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3553 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3554 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3555
8c841523
PH
3556PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3557
7766a4f0
PH
3558PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3559 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3560 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3561 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3562 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3563
8b417f2c
PH
3564PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3565 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3566
901f42cb
PH
3567PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3568 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3569 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3570 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3571 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3572 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3573 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3574 for failure.
3575
f9b9210e
PH
3576PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3577 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3578 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3579 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3580 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3581 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3582 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3583 "input=".
3584
54cdb463
PH
3585PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3586
cf00dad6
PH
3587PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3588 driver and ACL definitions.
3589
acb1b346
PH
3590PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3591 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3592
c5ddb310
PH
3593PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3594 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3595 understands it better than I do:
3596
3597 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3598 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3599
3600 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3601 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3602 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3603 => three warnings about OTP not working
3604 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3605
3606 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3607 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3608 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3609 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3610 for each call.)
3611 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3612 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3613
3614 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3615 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3616 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3617
31619da6
PH
3618PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3619 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3620 specified.
3621
bebaf0fc
PH
3622PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3623 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3624 "Linux".
3625
475fe28a
PH
3626PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3627 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3628 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3629
3630 warn !verify = sender
3631 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3632
3633 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3634 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3635
7e8bec7a
PH
3636PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3637
3638 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3639 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3640
3641 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3642 nomenclature these days.)
3643
e4a89c47
PH
3644PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3645 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3646
5ca2a9a1
PH
3647PH/30 In these circumstances:
3648 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3649 . First host does not offer TLS;
3650 . First host accepts first address;
3651 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3652 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3653 . Second host accepts second address.
3654 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3655 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3656 address.
7e8bec7a 3657
c688b954
PH
3658PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3659 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3660 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3661 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3662 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3663
fed77020
PH
3664PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3665 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3666
7fe1560f
PH
3667PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3668 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3669
ebb6e6d5
PH
3670PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3671 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3672 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3673
9c4e8f60
PH
3674PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3675 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3676 overlooked.
3677
3678PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3679
d7174846
PH
3680PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3681 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3682 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3683 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3684 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3685 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3686 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3687
3688 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3689 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3690 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3691 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3692 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3693
3694 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3695 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3696 routed further.
3697
cfe75fc3
PH
3698PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3699 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3700 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3701 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3702 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3703 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3704
be22d70e
PH
3705PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3706
0612b098
PH
3707PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3708 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3709 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3710 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3711 printable escape sequences.
3712
2e0c1448
PH
3713PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3714 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3715 body only.
3716
447d236c
PH
3717PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3718 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3719 are as follows:
3720
3721 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3722 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3723 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3724 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3725 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3726
3727 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3728 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3729 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3730
d20976dc
PH
3731PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3732
f656d135
PH
3733PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3734 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3735 play with."
3736
2e2a30b4
PH
3737PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3738 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3739 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3740 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3741 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3742 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3743 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3744 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3745 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3746 the log output.
3747
9176e9f0
PH
3748PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3749 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3750 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3751 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3752 "make".
3753
7982096b 3754
bbe902f0
PH
3755A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3756----------------------------------------
3757
3758Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3759changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3760needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3761in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3762that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3763release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3764from 4.43.
3765
3766I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
37674.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3768those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3769historical information.
3770
3771
f7b63901 3772Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3773-----------------
3774
5fe762f6
PH
3775 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3776
139059f6 3777 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3778 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3779
7086e875
PH
3780 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3781 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3782 place.
3783
35af9f61
PH
3784 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3785 filter fails to execute.
3786
b668c215
PH
3787 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3788 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3789 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3790 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3791 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3792
a494b1e1
PH
3793 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3794
3795 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3796 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3797 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3798 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3799
c5fcb476
PH
3800 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3801 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3802 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3803 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3804 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3805
69358f02
PH
3806 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3807
5be20824
PH
380810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3809
eb2c0248
PH
381011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3811 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3812 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3813 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3814
2a3eea10
PH
381512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3816 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3817 sender verification.
3818
381913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3820 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3821
23c7ff99
PH
382214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3823
4deaf07d
PH
382415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3825 connection timeout.
3826
926e1192
PH
382716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3828 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3829
650edc6f
PH
383017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3831 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3832
2c7db3f5
PH
383318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3834 information about exactly what failed.
3835
3d235903
PH
383619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3837
7c7ad977
PH
383820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3839 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3840 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3841
981756db
PH
384221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3843 It is now set to "smtps".
3844
d4eb88df
PH
384522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3846 ignore_target_hosts.
3847
384823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3849 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3850 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3851 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3852 "[x.x.x.x]".
3853
7d468ab8
PH
385424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3855 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3856 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3857
385825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3859 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3860 wake it up if nothing else does.
3861
62c0818f
PH
386226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3863 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3864 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3865 end up negative.
3866
26034054
PH
386727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3868 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3869
af66f652
PH
387028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3871
90af77f4
PH
387229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3873 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3874 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3875 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3876 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3877 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3878 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3879 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3880
d8ef3577
PH
388130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3882 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3883 than one IP address.
3884
5cb8cbc6
PH
388531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3886 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3887 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3888 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3889
14702f5b
PH
389032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3891 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3892 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3893 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3894 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3895 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3896
063b1e99
PH
389733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3898 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3899 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3900 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3901
652e1b65
PH
390234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3903 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3904 respected.
3905
6f0c9a4f
PH
390635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3907 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3908 $sender_host_address.
3909
33397d19
PH
391036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3911 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3912 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3913 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3914 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3915 very small.
3916
7bb56e1f
PH
391737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3918
3919 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3920 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3921
ea3bc19b
PH
3922 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3923 just the host names, not the priorities.
3924
3925 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3926 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3927 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3928
ea3bc19b 3929 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3930 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3931
0bcb2a0e
PH
393238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3933 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3934 domain.
3935
2ac0e484
PH
393639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3937
4e1fde53
PH
393840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3939 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3940
de365ded
PH
394141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3942 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3943 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3944
f05da2e8
PH
394542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3946
d6453af2
PH
394743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3948
f7b63901
PH
394944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3950
395145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3952 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3953 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3954 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3955 because the tests only now provoked it.
3956
a444213a
PH
395746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3958 (this can affect the format of dates).
3959
0ec020ea
PH
396047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3961 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3962 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3963 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3964
b1206957
PH
396548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3966
396749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3968 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3969 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3970 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3971
26dd5a95
PH
397250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3973 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3974 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3975
343b2385
PH
397651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3977 autoreply.
3978
1c5466b9
PH
397952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3980 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3981 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3982 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3983 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3984 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3985 is going on).
3986
55ee9ee3
PH
398753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3988 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3989 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3990 the line.
3991
d38f8232
PH
399254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3993 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3994 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3995
3996 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3997 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3998 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3999 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4000 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4001 so I produce this patch..."
4002
3295e65b
PH
4003 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4004 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4005 is not defined.
4006
7102e136
PH
400755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4008 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4009 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4010 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4011 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4012
3ca0ba97
PH
401356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4014
c2bcbe20
PH
401557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4016 long debug lines gets shown.
4017
18ce445d
PH
401858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4019 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4020
1f5b4c3d
PH
402159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4022
4023 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4024 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4025 of $primary_hostname.
4026
b975ba52
PH
402760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4028 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4029 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4030 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4031 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4032 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4033 by change 4.50/55 above.
4034
4035 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4036 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4037 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4038 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4039 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4040 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4041 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4042
404361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4044 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4045 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4046 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4047
17ffcae7
PH
404862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4049 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4050
d95f9fdb
PH
405163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4052 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4053 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4054 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4055 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4056
86b8287f
PH
405764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4058 This has been fixed.
4059
60dc5e56
PH
406065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4061 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4062 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4063 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4064 the caching.)
4065
533244af
PH
406666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4067
a5a28604
PH
406867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4069 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4070 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4071 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4072
7e634d24
PH
407368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4074 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4075
3e11c26b
PH
407669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4077 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4078 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4079
6729cf78
PH
408070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4081 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4082 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4083 message there.
4084
00f00ca5
PH
408571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4086 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4087 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4088
c9bdd01c
PH
408972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4090 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4091 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4092 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4093
d43194df
PH
409473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4095 during host lookups.
4096
fe5b5d0b
PH
409774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4098 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4099
4100 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4101
76a2d7ba
PH
410275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4103 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4104 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4105 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4106 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4107 background.
4108
410976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4110 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4111
04f7d5b9
PH
411277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4113 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4114 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4115
bc60667e
PH
411678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4117
bb6e88ff
PH
411879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4119 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4120 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4121 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4122 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4123 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4124 process earlier.
4125
1e70f85b
PH
412680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4127 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4128 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4129 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4130 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4131
413281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4133 tables).
4134
4e01f9d6
PH
413582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4136
1ee1cef2
PH
413783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4138 "vacation" handling.
4139
6e2b4ccc
PH
414084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4141 OS variants using glibc.
4142
8e669ac1
PH
414385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4144
495ae4b0 4145
bbe902f0
PH
4146----------------------------------------------------
4147See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4148----------------------------------------------------
4149
4150
4151Exim version 4.44
4152-----------------
4153
4154 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4155 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4156 transport
4157
4158 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4159 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4160 place.
4161
4162 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4163 filter fails to execute.
4164
4165 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4166 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4167 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4168 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4169 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4170
4171 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4172 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4173 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4174 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4175
4176 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4177 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4178 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4179 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4180 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4181
4182 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4183
4184 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4185 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4186 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4187 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4188
4189 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4190 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4191 sender verification.
4192
419310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4194 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4195
419611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4197 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4198
419912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4200 ignore_target_hosts.
4201
420213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4203 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4204 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4205 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4206 "[x.x.x.x]".
4207
420814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4209 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4210 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4211
421215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4213 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4214 wake it up if nothing else does.
4215
421616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4217 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4218 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4219 end up negative.
4220
422117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4222 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4223
ea3a6f44 422418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4225
422619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4227 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4228 empty pattern.
4229
423020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4231 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4232 one IP address.
4233
ea3a6f44
NM
423421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4235 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4236 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4237 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4238 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4239 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4240
ea3a6f44
NM
424122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4242 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4243 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4244
424523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4246 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4247 $sender_host_address.
4248
424924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4250
ea3a6f44
NM
425125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4252 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4253 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4254
425526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4256 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4257
ea3a6f44
NM
425827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4259 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4260
ea3a6f44
NM
426128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4262 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4263 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4264 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4265
426629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4267 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4268 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4269
ea3a6f44
NM
427030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4271 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4272 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4273 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4274
ea3a6f44
NM
427531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4276 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4277 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4278
ea3a6f44
NM
427931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4280 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4281
ea3a6f44
NM
428232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4283 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4284 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4285 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4286 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4287 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4288 is going on).
bbe902f0 4289
ea3a6f44
NM
429033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4291 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4292 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4293 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4294 CAN-2005-0021
4295
ea3a6f44
NM
429634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4297 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4298 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4299 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4300 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4301 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4302 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4303
4304 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4305 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4306 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4307 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4308 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4309 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4310 CAN-2005-0021
4311
ea3a6f44
NM
431235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4313 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4314 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4315 CAN-2005-0022
4316
ea3a6f44
NM
431736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4318 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4319 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4320 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4321 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4322
ea3a6f44
NM
432337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4324 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4325 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4326 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4327 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4328
ea3a6f44
NM
432938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4330 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4331 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4332 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4333 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4334
4335
495ae4b0
PH
4336Exim version 4.43
4337-----------------
4338
4339 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4340 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4341 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4342 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4343 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4344 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4345 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4346
4347 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4348 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4349 the delivery.
4350
4351 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4352
4353 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4354
4355 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4356 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4357 to local_scan().
4358
4359 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4360 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4361 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4362 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4363 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4364
4365 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4366 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4367
4368 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4369
4370 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4371
437210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4373 header_sender only.
4374
437511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4376 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4377
437812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4379 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4380 affecting debugging statements).
4381
438213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4383
438414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4385 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4386 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4387 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4388 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4389 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4390 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4391 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4392 after the received time, and all would be well.
4393
439415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4395 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4396 condition in an expansion string.
4397
439816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4399
440017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4401 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4402 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4403 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4404 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4405 job under whatever limits there are.
4406
440718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4408
440919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4410 space).
4411
441220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4413 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4414 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4415 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4416 return path is set.
4417
441821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4419 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4420 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4421 binary data in such strings.
4422
442322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4424
442523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4426 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4427 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4428 failure, which is pointless.
4429
443024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4431
443225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4433
443426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4435 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4436 Sender: header lines.
4437
443827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4439 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4440 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4441
444228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4443 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4444 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4445 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4446 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4447 happens.
4448
444929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4450 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4451 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4452 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4453 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4454
445530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4456 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4457 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4458 1024.
4459
446031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4461 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4462
446332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4464 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4465
446633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4467
446832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4469
447033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4471
447234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4473 syntax error.
4474
447535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4476
447736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4478
447937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4480 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4481 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4482 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4483
448438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4485 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4486
4487
4488Exim version 4.42
4489-----------------
4490
4491 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4492 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4493 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4494 it was not quoted.
4495 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4496 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4497 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4498 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4499 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4500 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4501
4502 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4503 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4504 verification failure".
4505
4506 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4507 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4508 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4509 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4510
4511 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4512 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4513 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4514 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4515 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4516 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4517 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4518 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4519 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4520 treated as a timeout.
4521
4522 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4523 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4524 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4525 not set for Exim filters).
4526
4527 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4528 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4529 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4530
4531 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4532
4533 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4534 try to make them clearer.
4535
4536 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4537 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4538
4539 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4540
4541 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4542
454310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4544 only the Cygwin environment.
4545
454611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4547 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4548 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4549 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4550 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4551
455212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4553 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4554 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4555 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4556 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4557 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4558 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4559
456013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4561 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4562
456314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4564
4565 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4566 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4567 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4568
4569 To: susanne@some.where
4570
4571 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4572 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4573 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4574 of addresses in From: header lines).
4575
4576 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4577 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4578 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4579
4580 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4581 treated as non-personal.
4582
4583 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4584 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4585
458615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4587
458816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4589
459017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4591 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4592 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4593
459418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4595 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4596
459719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4598 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4599 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4600 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4601 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4602 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4603
460420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4605 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4606 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4607 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4608 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4609 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4610 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4611 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4612
4613 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4614
461521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4616 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4617
461822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4619 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4620 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4621
462223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4623 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4624
462524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4626 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4627 rather than long int.
4628
462925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4630
463126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4632
4633
4634Exim version 4.41
4635-----------------
4636
4637 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4638 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4639 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4640 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4641 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4642 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4643
4644
4645Exim version 4.40
4646-----------------
4647
4648 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4649 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4650
4651 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4652 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4653 socklen_t is defined.
4654
4655 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4656 always exist.
4657
4658 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4659 configured.
4660
4661 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4662 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4663 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4664 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4665 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4666
4667 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4668 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4669 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4670 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4671
4672 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4673 of flapping under certain conditions.
4674
4675 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4676 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4677 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4678
4679 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4680
468110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4682
468311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4684 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4685 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4686 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4687
468812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4689 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4690 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4691 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4692 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4693 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4694 preserved with the message after it was received.
4695
469613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4697 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4698 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4699 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4700 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4701 test suite worked just fine.
4702
470314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4704 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4705 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4706
470715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4708 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4709 string.
4710
471116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4712 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4713 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4714 does not fully solve it.
4715
471617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4717 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4718 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4719 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4720 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4721
472218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4723 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4724 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4725
472619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4727 string, for example:
4728
4729 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4730
4731 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4732 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4733 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4734 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4735 the routers could not see them.
4736
473720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4738 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4739
474021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4741 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4742 output).
4743
474422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4745 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4746 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4747 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4748 that needed quoting.
4749
475023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4751 was not being matched caselessly.
4752
475324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4754 backslashes.
4755
475625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4757 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4758 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4759 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4760 when use_sender is false.
4761
476226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4763
476427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4765
476628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4767
476829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4769 the configuration file.
4770
477130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4772 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4773
477431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4775
477632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4777 bytes in the message body.
4778
477933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4780 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4781 delivery.
4782
478334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4784
478535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4786
478736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4788 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4789 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4790 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4791 another IP address.
4792
4793
4794Exim version 4.34
4795-----------------
4796
4797 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4798 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4799
4800 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4801 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4802 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4803 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4804 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4805
4806 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4807 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4808
4809 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4810 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4811 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4812
4813 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4814 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4815 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4816
4817 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4818 for routers.
4819
4820 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4821 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4822 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4823 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4824 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4825 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4826 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4827
4828
4829Exim version 4.33
4830-----------------
4831
4832 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4833 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4834 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4835 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4836 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4837 default (and expected) setting.
4838
4839 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4840 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4841 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4842 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4843
4844 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4845 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4846
4847 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4848 in domain lists.
4849
4850 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4851 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4852 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4853 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4854 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4855 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4856
4857 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4858 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4859 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4860
4861 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4862 part (NOT match_host).
4863
4864 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4865
4866 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4867 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4868 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4869 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4870 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4871 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4872 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4873 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4874 the same named file.
4875
487610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4877 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4878 when Exim is built.
4879
488011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4881 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4882 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4883 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4884 a host name.
4885
488612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4887 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4888 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4889
489013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4891
489214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4893
489415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4895
489616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4897 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4898
489917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4900 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4901 before starting the TLS session.
4902
490318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4904
490519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4906 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4907
490820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4909 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4910 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4911 colon in the middle).
4912
4913
4914Exim version 4.32
4915-----------------
4916
4917 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4918 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4919 multiple configurations are in use.
4920
4921 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4922 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4923 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4924 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4925 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4926 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4927
4928 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4929 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4930
4931 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4932 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4933 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4934
4935 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4936 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4937 occurs.
4938
4939 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4940 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4941
4942 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4943
4944 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4945 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4946
4947 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4948
4949 -prval:sval
4950
4951 is equivalent to
4952
4953 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4954
4955 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4956 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4957 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4958 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4959 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4960
496110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4962 Exim's behaviour:
4963
4964 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4965 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4966 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4967 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4968 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4969 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4970
4971 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4972 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4973 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4974 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4975 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4976 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4977 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4978 string.
4979
4980 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4981 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4982 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4983 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4984 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4985
498611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4987
498812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4989 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4990 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4991
499213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4993
499414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4995 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4996 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4997 information.
4998
499915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5000 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5001
500216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5003 Three changes have been made:
5004
5005 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5006 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5007 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5008 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5009 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5010
5011 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5012 been restored.
5013
5014 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5015 the modified behaviour.
5016
5017
5018Exim version 4.31
5019-----------------
5020
5021 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5022 Larry Rosenman.
5023
5024 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5025 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5026
5027 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5028 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5029 try to track down a specific problem.
5030
5031 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5032 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5033 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5034
5035 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5036 warning.
5037
5038 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5039 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5040 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5041 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5042 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5043 some earlier ones do not.
5044
5045 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5046
5047 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5048 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5049 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5050 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5051 address literals are enabled, of course).
5052
5053 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5054
505510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5056 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5057 by a command such as
5058
5059 exim -f "" ...
5060
5061 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5062
506311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5064
506512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5066 remained set. It is now erased.
5067
506813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5069 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5070
507114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5072 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5073 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5074 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5075 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5076 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5077 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5078 appropriate error code.
5079
508015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5081 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5082 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5083 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5084 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5085 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5086
508716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5088 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5089 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5090
509117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5092 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5093 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5094 terminate the header.
5095
509618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5097 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5098 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5099
510019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5101 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5102 (4.30/29). In particular:
5103
5104 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5105 imposed.
5106
5107 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5108 to write a maildirsize file.
5109
5110 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5111 the transport, the new value overrides.
5112
5113 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5114 count.
5115
511620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5117 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5118 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5119 space or a tab.
5120
512121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5122 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5123 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5124 the fallback hosts.
5125
512622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5127 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5128 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5129
513023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5131 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5132 using a union.
5133
513424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5135 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5136 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5137
513825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5139
514026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5141
514227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5143
514428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5145 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5146 become corrupted.
5147
514829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5149 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5150 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5151 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5152 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5153 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5154 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5155 too great.
5156
515730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5158 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5159 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5160 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5161 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5162 incorrectly.
5163
516431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5165 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5166 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5167 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5168 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5169 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5170 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5171 cached value only when the same options are set.
5172
517332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5174
517533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5176 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5177 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5178 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5179 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5180
518134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5182 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5183 it is clearly obsolete.
5184
518535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5186 transport.
5187
518836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5189 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5190 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5191 times.
5192
519337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5194 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5195 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5196 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5197 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5198
519938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5200 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5201 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5202 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5203
520439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5205
5206 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5207
5208 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5209 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5210 2^31.
5211
521240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5213 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5214 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5215 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5216 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5217 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5218 $localpart_data.
5219
522041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5221 with the -f command-line option.
5222
522342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5224 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5225 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5226 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5227 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5228 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5229
523043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5231 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5232 line.
5233
523444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5235 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5236 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5237 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5238 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5239 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5240 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5241 buffer is too small.
5242
524345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5244 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5245
524646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5247 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5248 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5249 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5250 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5251 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5252 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5253 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5254 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5255
525647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5257 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5258 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5259
526048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5261 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5262 ACL").
5263
526449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5265 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5266 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5267 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5268 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5269
527050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5271 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5272 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5273 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5274 is set.
5275
527651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5277
527852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5279
528053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5281 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5282
528354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5284 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5285 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5286
528755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5288 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5289 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5290 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5291 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5292
529356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5294 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5295 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5296 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5297 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5298 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5299 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5300
530157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5302 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5303 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5304 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5305 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5306 the test of how many are available.
5307
530858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5309 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5310 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5311 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5312 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5313 new message is started.
5314
531559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5316 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5317
531860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5319 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5320
532161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5322 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5323 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5324 is no long logged.
5325
532662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5327 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5328 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5329 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5330 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5331 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5332 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5333
533463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5335 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5336 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5337 interpreted as octal.
5338
533964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5340 setting.
5341
534265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5343 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5344 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5345 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5346 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5347 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5348
534966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5350 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5351 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5352 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5353
5354 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5355 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5356 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5357 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5358
5359 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5360 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5361 is a bug fix.
5362
5363 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5364 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5365
536667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5367
536868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5369 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5370 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5371 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5372
537369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5374 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5375 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5376 supplied", which is not helpful.
5377
537870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5379 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5380 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5381
538271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5383 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5384 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5385 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5386 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5387 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5388 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5389 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5390
539172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5392 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5393 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5394 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5395 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5396
539773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5398 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5399 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5400 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5401 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5402 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5403
540474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5405 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5406 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5407
540875. Added write_rejectlog option.
5409
541076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5411 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5412 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5413 variables.
5414
541577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5416
541778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5418 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5419 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5420 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5421 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5422 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5423 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5424 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5425
542679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5427 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5428 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5429 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5430 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5431
543280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5433 Haardt.
5434
543581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5436 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5437 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5438 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5439 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5440 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5441 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5442 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5443 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5444
5445
5446Exim version 4.30
5447-----------------
5448
5449 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5450 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5451 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5452
5453 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5454 fixed.
5455
5456 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5457 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5458 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5459
5460 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5461 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5462 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5463 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5464 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5465 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5466
5467 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5468 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5469 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5470 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5471 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5472 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5473 the Exim test suite.
5474
5475 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5476 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5477 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5478 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5479
5480 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5481 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5482 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5483 specify it in this variable.
5484
5485 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5486 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5487 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5488 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5489
5490 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5491 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5492 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5493 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5494
5495 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5496 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5497 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5498 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5499 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5500
5501 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5502
550310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5504 they are logged.
5505
550611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5507 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5508 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5509 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5510 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5511
551212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5513 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5514
551513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5516 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5517 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5518 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5519 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5520
552114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5522 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5523
552415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5525 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5526 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5527
552816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5529 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5530
553117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5532 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5533
553418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5535 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5536 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5537
553819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5539 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5540
554120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5542 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5543 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5544 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5545
554621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5547
554822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5549 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5550 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5551 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5552
555323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5554
555524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5556 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5557
555825. Added .include_if_exists.
5559
556026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5561 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5562 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5563 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5564 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5565 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5566
556727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5568
556928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5570 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5571 this.
5572
557329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5574
557530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5576 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5577
5578 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5579 550 Sender verify failed
5580
5581 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5582 the final line of the response.
5583
558431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5585 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5586 all other user lookups.
5587
558832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5589 delivery time.
5590
559133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5592 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5593 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5594 result into an int without checking.
5595
559634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5597 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5598 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5599
560035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5601 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5602 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5603 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5604
560536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5606 correctly.
5607
560837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5609 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5610
561138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5612 to the empty sender.
5613
561439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5615 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5616 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5617 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5618 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5619 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5620 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5621 panic log.
5622
562340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5624 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5625 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5626 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5627 used.
5628
562941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5630 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5631
563242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5633 timestamps.
5634
563543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5636 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5637
563844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5639
564045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5641 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5642 logs.
5643
564446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5645 as soon as it is encountered.
5646
564747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5648
564948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5650 rewritten to "<>".
5651
565249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5653 recognizes a tab character.
5654
565550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5656 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5657 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5658 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5659
566051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5661
566252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5663 crash.
5664
566553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5666
566754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5668
566955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5670 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5671 2822.
5672
567356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5674 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5675 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5676 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5677 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5678
567957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5680 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5681
568258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5683 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5684 list (.included file names were always shown).
5685
568659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5687 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5688 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5689 root at that time.
5690
569160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5692 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5693
569461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5695
569662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5697
569863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5699
570064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5701 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5702 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5703 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5704 failures to open the logs.
5705
570665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5707 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5708 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5709 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5710 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5711 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5712 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5713
5714
5715Exim version 4.24
5716-----------------
5717
5718 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5719 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5720 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5721 change 4.23/1.
5722
5723 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5724 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5725 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5726
5727 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5728 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5729 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5730
5731 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5732 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5733 causing some misleading effects.
5734
5735 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5736 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5737 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5738
5739 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5740 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5741 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5742 queue-runner function directly.
5743
5744
5745Exim version 4.23
5746-----------------
5747
5748 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5749 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5750
5751 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5752 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5753 was always written to the default place.
5754
5755 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5756 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5757 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5758
5759 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5760
5761 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5762
5763 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5764 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5765 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5766
5767 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5768 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5769 must start.
5770
5771 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5772 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5773 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5774
5775 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5776 command line option is disabled.
5777
5778 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5779 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5780
5781 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5782
5783 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5784
5785 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5786 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5787
578810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5789
579011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5791 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5792 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5793 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5794 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5795 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5796
579712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5798 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5799 timeout.
5800
580113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5802 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5803
580414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5805 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5806
580715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5808 received was valid base64.
5809
581016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5811 name of the variable that was being set.
5812
581317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5814
581518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5816 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5817 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5818 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5819 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5820 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5821
582219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5823
582420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5825 nor realm was specified.
5826
582721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5828 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5829 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5830 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5831
583222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5833 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5834 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5835
583623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5837 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5838 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5839
584024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5841 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5842 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5843 some systems use these upper case variants.
5844
584525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5846 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5847 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5848 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5849
585026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5851
585227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5853 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5854
585528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5856 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5857 expansion variable.
5858
585929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5860
586130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5862 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5863 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5864 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5865
586631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5867 using it.
5868
586932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5870 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5871 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5872
587333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5874 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5875
587634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5877 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5878 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5879 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5880
588135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5882 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5883 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5884
588536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5886
588737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5888 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5889 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5890 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5891 aborted.
5892
589338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5894 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5895 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5896
589739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5898
589940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5900 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5901
590241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5903 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5904
590542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5906 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5907 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5908 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5909 when emails are that large.
5910
5911
5912
5913Exim version 4.22
5914-----------------
5915
5916 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5917 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5918
5919 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5920 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5921 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5922
5923 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5924 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5925 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5926
5927 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5928 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5929 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5930 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5931 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5932
5933 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5934 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5935 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5936 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5937 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5938 ever.
5939
5940 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5941 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5942 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5943 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5944 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5945 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5946 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5947 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5948 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5949 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5950 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5951 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5952 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5953 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5954
5955 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5956 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5957 parameterised it.
5958
5959 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5960 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5961 error should be diagnosed.
5962
5963 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5964 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5965 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5966 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5967 appeared instead of "NULL".
5968
596910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5970 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5971 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5972 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5973 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5974 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5975 proceeds).
5976
5977 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5978 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5979 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5980
5981
5982Exim version 4.21
5983-----------------
5984
5985 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5986 or receiver verification errors.
5987
5988 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5989 name.
5990
5991 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5992 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5993 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5994 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5995
5996 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5997 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5998 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5999 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6000 shouldn't happen again.
6001
6002 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6003 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6004 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6005
6006 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6007 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6008
6009 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6010
6011 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6012 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6013
6014 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6015 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6016 RFC.
6017
601810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6019 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6020 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6021
602211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6023 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6024 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6025 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6026
602712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6028 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6029 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6030 to define what should happen).
6031
603213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6033 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6034 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6035
603614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6037
603815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6039
604016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6041 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6042
604317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6044 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6045 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6046 structure in all cases.
6047
6048 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6049 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6050 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6051 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6052
605318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6054 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6055 domain name.
6056
605719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6058 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6059
606020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6061 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6062
606321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6064 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6065 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6066
606722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6068 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6069 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6070
607123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6072 the book and for uniformity.
6073
607424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6075
607625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6077 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6078 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6079 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6080 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6081 non-existent command as the problem.
6082
608326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6084 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6085 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6086
608727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6088
608928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6090 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6091 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6092
609329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6094 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6095 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6096 timestamps using strftime().
6097
609830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6099 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6100
610132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6102 transport-time rewrites.
6103
610433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6105 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6106 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6107 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6108
610934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6110 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6111
611235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6113 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6114 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6115 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6116 comma and a space.
6117
611836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6119 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6120 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6121 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6122 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6123 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6124 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6125
612637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6127 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6128 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6129 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6130 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6131
613238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6133 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6134 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6135 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6136 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6137 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6138 remaining text gets split now.
6139
614039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6141 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6142 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6143 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6144
614540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6146 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6147 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6148 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6149 $return_path.
6150
615141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6152 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6153 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6154 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6155 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6156 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6157 passed through if needed.
6158
615942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6160 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6161 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6162 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6163 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6164 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6165
616643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6167 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6168 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6169 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6170 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6171
617244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6173 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6174 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6175 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6176 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6177
617845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6179 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6180 noticed.
6181
618246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6183 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6184 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6185 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6186 mayhem of various kinds.
6187
618847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6189 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6190 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6191 the right test for positive values.
6192
619348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6194 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6195 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6196 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6197 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6198 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6199 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6200 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6201 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6202 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6203 envelope.
6204
620549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6206 module.
6207
620850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6209 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6210 forbidding it.
6211
621251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6213 the existing equality matching.
6214
621552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6216 dealing with inode numbers.
6217
621853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6219 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6220 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6221
622254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6223 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6224 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6225 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6226 local_scan().
6227
622855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6229 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6230 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6231 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6232 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6233 relay addresses has also been removed.
6234
623556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6236
623757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6238 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6239 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6240
624158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6242 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6243 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6244 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6245 processing applies to CR:
6246
6247 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6248 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6249
6250 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6251 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6252 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6253 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6254
625559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6256 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6257 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6258
625960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6260 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6261 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6262 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6263 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6264 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6265 arisen.
6266
626761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6268 program routers.
6269
627062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6271 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6272 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6273 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6274 adds:
6275
6276 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6277
6278 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6279
6280 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6281
628263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6283 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6284 not considered personal.
6285
628664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6287
628865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6289
629066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6291
629267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6293 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6294 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6295 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6296 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6297 header lines, and spool format errors.
6298
629968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6300 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6301 for more flexibility.
6302
630369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6304 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6305 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6306
630770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6308 Sabourenkov.
6309
631071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6311 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6312 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6313 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6314 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6315 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6316 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6317 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6318 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6319
632072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6321 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6322 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6323 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6324 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6325 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6326 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6327
632873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6329 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6330 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6331
633274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6333 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6334 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6335 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6336 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6337 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6338 instead of killing the process with assert().
6339
634075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6341 than Unicode encoding.
6342
634376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6344 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6345 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6346 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6347
634877. Added process_log_path.
6349
635078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6351 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6352
635379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6354 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6355
635680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6357 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6358 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6359
636081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6361 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6362 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6363 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6364 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6365 were applied:
6366
6367 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6368 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6369 as invalid.
6370
637182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6372 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6373 they will be used during message reception.
6374
6375
6376Exim version 4.20
6377-----------------
6378
6379The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6380
6381****