Testsuite: avoid using STARTTLS in a non-TLS testcase
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1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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9JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
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13JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
14
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15JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
17 option.
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19JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
22
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23JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
24
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25JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
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27JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
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31JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
34
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35JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
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38JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
40 was taken.
41
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42JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
47
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48JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
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55JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
56 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 58JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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59 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
60 its own TCP segment.
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62JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
63 each verb.
64
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65JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
66
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67JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
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69JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
70 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
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72JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
73 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
74 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
75 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
76 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
77 suitably configured).
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80 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
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82JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
83 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
84 crash could result.
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86JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
87 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
88
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89JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
90 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
91 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
92 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
93 to this system.
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95JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
96 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
97 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
98
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99JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
100 output.
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102JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
103 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
104
3c55eef2 105JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 106 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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107 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
108 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
109 input).
110
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112 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
113 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
114 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
115 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
116
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119
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121 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
122 affected.
123
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124JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
125 on some platforms for bit 31.
126
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127JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
128 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
129 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
130 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
131 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
132 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
133 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
134 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
135
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136JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
137
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138JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
139 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
140
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141JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
142 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
143 facility.
144
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145JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
146 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
147 documentation.
148
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149JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
150 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
151 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
152 not do so.
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155 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
156 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
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158JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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159 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
160 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
161 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
162 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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164JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
165 reject under TFO.
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171JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
172 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
173
6ee11061 174PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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176JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
177 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
178 one for these; the option was ignored.
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180JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
181 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
182 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
183 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
184
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185JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
186 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
187 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
188 standards.
189
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190JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
191 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
192 error ignored was made.
193
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194JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
195
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196JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
197 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
198 values, to catch one form of exploit.
199
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200JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
201 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
202 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
203
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204JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
205 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
206 causing a segfault.
207
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208JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
209 them in our smtp response.
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213 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
214 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
215 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
216
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217JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
218 link count into consideration.
219
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220HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
221 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
222
223JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
224 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
225 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
226 surprise.
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229
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230JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
231
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232JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
233
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234JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
235 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
236 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
237 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
238
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241JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
242 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
243 active.
244
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245JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
246 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
247 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
248
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249JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
250 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
251 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
252
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253JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
254 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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256 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
257 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
258 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
259 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
260 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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262JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
263 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
264 resulted in an indefinite loop.
265
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266JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
267 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
268 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
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274JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
275 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
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277JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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278 non-signal-safe functions being used.
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280JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
281 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
282 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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284JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
285 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
286 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
287
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288JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
289 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
290 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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291 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
292 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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293 messed with.
294
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295PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
296 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
297
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298JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
299 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
300 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
301 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
302 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
303 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
304 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
305
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306JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
307 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
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309JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
310 legitimate.
311
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312JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
313 Previously this would segfault.
314
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315JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
316 segfault.
317
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318JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
319 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
320 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
321 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
322 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
323 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
324
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325JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
326
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327JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
328 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
329 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
330 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
331
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332JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
333
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334JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
335 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
336 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
337 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
338
5054c4fd 339JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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341JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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343JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
344 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
345 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
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347JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
348 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
349 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
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352
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353JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
354 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
355 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
356 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
357
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358PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
359 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
360 promised '?' replacement.
361
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362PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
363
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364JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
365 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
366 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
367 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
368 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
369
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370JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
371 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
372 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
373
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374JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
375 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
376 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
377
7ea1237c 378JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 379 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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380 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
381
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382JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
383 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
384 hope that is portable enough.
385
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386JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
387 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
388 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
389 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
390
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391JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
392 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
393 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
394
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395JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
396 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
397 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
398 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
399
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400JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
401 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
402
75c121f0 403JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 404 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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405 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
406 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
407
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408JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
409 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
410 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
411
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412JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
413 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
414 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
415 the previous G, M, k.
416
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417JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
418 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
419 it was unset.
420
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421JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
422 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
423 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
424 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
425
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426JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
427 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
428
de6f74f2 429JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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430 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
431 off past the nul-terimation.
432
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433JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
434 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
435 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
436 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
437 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
438
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441JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
442 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
443 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
444 actually does fail.
445
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446AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
447 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
448
449JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
450 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
451 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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453JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
454 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
455 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
456
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457JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
458 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
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c39c8870 464GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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465 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
466 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
467 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
468 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
469 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 470
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471GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
472 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
473
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474JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
475 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
476 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
477 extant use locations.
478
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479JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
480 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
481
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482JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
483 Previously only the last row was returned.
484
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485JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
486 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
487 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
488 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
489 input.
490
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491JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
492 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
493 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
494 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
495 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
496 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
497 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
498 Main pool for expansions.
499 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
500 active in the testsuite.
501 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
502
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503JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
504 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
505 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
506 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
507 round-robin DNS.
508
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509JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
510 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
511 failure response.
512
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513JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
514 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
515 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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516
517JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
518 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
519 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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521JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
522 rows affected is given instead).
523
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524JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
525 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
526
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527JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
528 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
529 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
530 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
531 for all multi-message initiating connections.
532
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533JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
534 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
535 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
536
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537JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
538 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
539 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
540 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
541 separate.
542
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543JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
544 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
545 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
546 fake-reject.
547
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548HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
549
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550JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
551 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
552
aab9a843 553PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 554 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 555 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 556
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557JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
558 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
559 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
560 and send a quit.
561
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562JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
563 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
564
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565JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
566 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
567 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
568
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569JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
570 for the build is renamed.
571
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572JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
573 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
574 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
575
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576JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
577 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
578 result replacing the original.
579
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580JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
581 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
582 and the resources needed to be freed.
583
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584JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
585
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586JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
587 was not propagated.
588
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589JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
590 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
591 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
592 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
593
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594JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
595 length value. Previously this would segfault.
596
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597HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
598 newer versions of the scanner.
599
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600JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
601 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
602 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
603 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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604 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
605 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
606 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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608JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
609 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
610 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
611 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
612 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
613 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
614 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
615 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
616 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
617 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
618
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619JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
620 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
621
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622JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
623
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624HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
625 allows proper process termination in container environments.
626
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627JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
628 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
629
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630JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
631 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
632 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
633
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634JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
635 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
636 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 637 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 638
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639JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
640 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
641 would be spooled.
642
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643PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
644 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
645
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646HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
647 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
648 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
649 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
650 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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652JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
653 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
654 lines.
655
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656JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
657 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
658
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659PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
660 suffix list.
661
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662JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
663 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
664 "bare" representation.
665
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666JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
667 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
668 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
669 corrupted the output.
670
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674
675JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
676 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
677 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
678 pairs of long lines into single ones.
679
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680PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
681 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
682
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683JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
684 This permits better logging.
685
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686JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
687 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
688 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
689 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
690 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 691 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 692
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693JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
694 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
695 "exiwhat" output.
696
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697PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
698 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
699 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
700
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701JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
702 than 255 are no longer allowed.
703
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704JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
705 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
706 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
707 client, there is no benefit for these.
708 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
709 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
710 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
711 is used (3.2.4 +).
712
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713PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
714 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
715
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716JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
717 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
718 erroneously found still-pending ones.
719
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720JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
721 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
722
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723JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
724 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
725 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
726 signature and again for transmission.
727
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728JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
729 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 730 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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732JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
733 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
734 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
735 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
736 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
737 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
738 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
739
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740JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
741 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
742 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 743 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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745PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
746 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
747 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
748 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
749 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
750 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
751 processing options.
752
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753JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
754 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
755 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
756 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
757 connections.
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759PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
760 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
761 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
762 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
763 versions.
764
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765JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
766 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
767 inaccessible.
768
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769JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
770 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
771 banner-time rejection.
772
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773JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
774 callout/hold.
775
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776PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
777 is the name of a transport.
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778 Fixes bug 2140.
779
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780HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
781
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782JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
783 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
784
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785JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
786 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
787 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
788 during compilation.
789
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790JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
791 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
792 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 793 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 794
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795JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
796 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
797 initial verify call returned a defer.
798
ad1a76fe 799JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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800 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
801
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802JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
803 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
804
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805JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
806 if present. Previously it was ignored.
807
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808JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
809 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
810
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811JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
812 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
813 extensible.
814
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815PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
816 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
817
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818PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
819 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
820 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
821
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822JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
823 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
824 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
825 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
826
0768462d 827HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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828 and confused the parent.
829
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830JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
831 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
832
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833JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
834 for log purposes.
835
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836JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
837 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
838 out-of-order delivery.
839
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840JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
841 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
842 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
843 error for the HELO.
844
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845JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
846 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
847 desynchronisation.
848
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849JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
850 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
851 one run was done. Bug 2189.
852
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853JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
854 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
855 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
856 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
857 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
858 message is still "Temporary local problem".
859
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860JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
861 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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862 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
863
864HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
865 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
866 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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868JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
869 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
870 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
871 though a different problem.
872
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9427e879 877JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 878 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
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880JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
881
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882PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
883 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
884
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885JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
886 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
887
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888JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
889 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
890 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
891 before acknowledging the chunk.
892
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893PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
894 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
895 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
896
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897JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
898 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
899 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
900 should.
901
902JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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903 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
904 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 906JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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907 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
908
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909JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
910 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
911 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
912 body hash calculated value.
913
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914JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
915 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
916 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
917
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918JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
919
920JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
921 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
922
923JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
924 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
925 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
926
927JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
928 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
929 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
930 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
931 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
932 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
933
934JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
935 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
936 past that check, despite the cost.
937
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938JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
939 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
940 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
941
f700ea4d
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942PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
943 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
944 TLS library to consume.
945
da88acae
PP
946PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
947
f6ef9370
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948PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
949
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950JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
951 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
952 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
953 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
954 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
955 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
956 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
957
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958PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
959
960PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
961
962PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
963 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
964 should be warning-free.
965
8b2b9480
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966JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
967
968HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
969 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
970
d953610f
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971HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
972 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
973 general solution here.
974
7dc5f827
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975PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
976 already-broken messages in the queue.
977
4bb432cb
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978JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
979
3b1a84c8
PP
980JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
981
902fbd69 982
8d042305
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983Exim version 4.88
984-----------------
4c57a40e 985
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986JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
987 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 988
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989JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
990 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
991 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
992
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993JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
994 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
995 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
996 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
997 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
998 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
999 if one fails this test.
1000 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1001 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1002
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1003JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1004 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1005
23bb6982 1006JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 1007 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 1008
0bd1b1ed 1009JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 1010 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 1011
20b9a2dc
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1012JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1013 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1014
05392bbc
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1015JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1016 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1017
1a6230a3
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1018JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1019
cfab9d68
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1020JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1021 certificate).
1022
98c82a3d
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1023JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1024 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1025 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1026 connection after a verify cache hit.
1027 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1028
1029JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1030 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1031
ae8386f0
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1032JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1033 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1034 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1035 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1036 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1037
0d9fa8c0
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1038JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1039 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1040
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1041JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1042 Previously they were not counted.
1043
ef3a1a30
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1044JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1045 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1046 that needed the lookup.
1047
4c04137d 1048JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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1049 distinguished as "(=".
1050
1435d4b2
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1051JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1052 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1053
eea0defe
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1054JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1055
1056JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1057 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1058
4c04137d 1059JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
TM
1060 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1061
1c788856
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1062JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1063 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1064 compatible.
1065
e3b1f624
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1066JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1067 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1068 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1069 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1070
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1071JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1072
f59aaaaa 1073JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
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1074 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1075 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1076
d1f9fb42
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1077JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1078 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1079 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1080 be lost.
1081
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1082JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1083 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1084 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1085 itself :(
1086
ddf1b11a
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1087JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1088 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1089 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1090
3cc3f762
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1091JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1092 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1093 options.
1094
ae5afa61
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1095JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1096
317e40ac
PP
1097PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1098 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1099
8b0fb68e
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1100PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1101 are not in the system include path.
1102
ad7fc6eb 1103JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1104 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
JH
1105 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1106 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1107
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1108JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1109 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1110 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1111
5ddc9771
JH
1112JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1113
8d73599f
JH
1114HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1115 an incoming connection.
1116
446415f5
HSHR
1117HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1118 to rspamd.
1119
8e53a4fc
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1120HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1121 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1122
87cb4a16 1123JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1124 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
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1125
1126
0d9b78be
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1127Exim version 4.87
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4c57a40e 1129
82d14d6a
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1130JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1131 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1132 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1133 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1134
6c6d6e48
TF
1135TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1136 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1137
ac881e27
TF
1138TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1139 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1140 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1141 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1142 outgoing I= field.
1143
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1144JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1145 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1146 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1147 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1148 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1149 check on the next write.
1150
f1b81d81
HSHR
1151HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1152 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1153 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1154 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1155 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1156
f38917cc
JH
1157JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1158 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1159
895fbaf2
JH
1160JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1161 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1162 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1163
805bb5c3
JH
1164JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1165 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1166 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1167 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1168
56c2a7be
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1169HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1170 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1171
4c04137d 1172JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
JH
1173 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1174
6f6dedcc
JH
1175JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1176 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1177 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1178 distinct.
1179
0f557e90
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1180JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1181
1182JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1183
ec0eb1a3
JH
1184JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1185
41e93589
JH
1186JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1187 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1188
98b98887 1189JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
376d2ec0
JH
1190 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1191
98b98887
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1192JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1193
858e91c2
JH
1194JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1195 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1196
1197JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1198
6ff55e50
JH
1199JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1200 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1201
3b957582
JB
1202JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1203
23f3dc67
JH
1204JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1205 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1206 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
23f3dc67
JH
1207 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1208 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1209 they will retry in-clear.
1210 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1211 at installation time.
1212
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1213HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1214 with the $config_file variable.
1215
5ef5dd52
JB
1216JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1217 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1218 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1219 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1220 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1221
e161710d
GF
1222GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1223 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1224 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1225 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1226 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1227
a159f203
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1228JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1229
7f06582c
JH
1230JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1231 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1232 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1233 list order is no longer honoured.
1234
4c04137d 1235JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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JH
1236 for DKIM processing.
1237
f0989ec0
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1238JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1239 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1240
cee5f132
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1241JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1242 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
e6d2a989
JH
1243 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1244 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1245
8c5d388a
JH
1246JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1247 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1248
2d8d625b
JH
1249JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1250 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1251
0cbf2b82
JH
1252JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1253 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1254
f2f2c91b
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1255JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1256
ce325893
JH
1257JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1258 cached by the daemon.
1259
de78e2d5
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1260JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1261 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1262
379ba7d0
JH
1263JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1264 keys are given for lookup.
1265
f444c2c7
JH
1266JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1267 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
07c73177
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1268 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1269 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1270
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1271JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1272 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1273 server-side so match that on older versions.
1274
07c73177 1275JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1276 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1277 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1278
4f6ae5c3
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1279JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1280 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1281
1bc460a6
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1282JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1283 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1284 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1285 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1286 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1287 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1288 initial truncated version.
1289
ab9152ff 1290JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1291
67e87fcf
JH
1292JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1293
ab9152ff
JH
1294JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1295 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1296
af483912
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1297JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1298
bc3c7bb7 1299HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1300
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1301JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1302 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1303 induced overflows.
1304
59eaad2b
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1305JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1306 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1307 stage.
1308
f9334a28
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1309JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1310 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1311
dc8091e7
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1312JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1313 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1314 former class.
1315
dfe7d917
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1316JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1317 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1318 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1319
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1320JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1321 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1322 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1323 extraction. Accept either.
1324
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4c57a40e 1328
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1329JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1330 expanded.
1331
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1332JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1333
ad07e9ad
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1334JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1335 it.
1336
01a4a5c5 1337JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1338 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
01a4a5c5
JH
1339 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1340 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1341
cb1d7830 1342JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1343 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1344 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1345
610ff438 1346JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1347 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1348 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1349 TLS connections
610ff438 1350
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JH
1351JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1352 sites use this now.
1353
50dc7409
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1354JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1355 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1356 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1357 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1358 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1359
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JH
1360JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1361 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1362 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1363
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1364JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1365
aeaf5db3
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1366JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1367 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1368
5032d1cf
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1369JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1370 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1371
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1372JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1373 /defer_ok option.
1374
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1375JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1376 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1377
fd4d8871 1378JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1379 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1380 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1381
1382JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1383 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1384 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1385
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1386JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1387 timeout value per server.
1388
2ad78978
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1389JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1390 now have the list separator specified.
1391
8a512ed5 1392JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1393 option values.
8a512ed5 1394
82c0c8ea 1395JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
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1396 under OpenSSL.
1397
cc00f4af
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1398JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1399
82c0c8ea
JH
1400JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1401 rather than the verbs used.
1402
b980ed83
JH
1403JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1404 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1405
6c9ed72e
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1406JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1407
cfab9d68 1408HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1409 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1410
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1411JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1412 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1413
fd4c285c
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1414HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1415 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1416
4c04137d 1417JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1418
d2a2c69b
JH
1419JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1420
8241d8dd
JH
1421JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1422 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1423 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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1424 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1425
1f12df4d
JH
1426JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1427
1f155f8e
JH
1428JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1429 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1430
1705dd20
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1431JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1432 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1433
038597d2
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1434JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1435
474f71bf
JH
1436JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1437
7137ca4b
JH
1438JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1439
dcb1095c
JH
1440JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1441 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1442
2f460950
JH
1443JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1444 added for tls authenticator.
1445
2f680c0c
HSHR
1446HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1447
9c695f6d 1448
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1450-----------------
4c57a40e 1451
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1452TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1453 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1454 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1455 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1456 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1457 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1458 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1459
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1460TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1461 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1462 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1463 function when detected.
1464
a9b8ec8b
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1465JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1466 cause callback expansion.
1467
6286d7c4
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1468TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1469 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1470 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1471 instead of bool when processing it.
1472
0f06b4f2 1473JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1474 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1475
be36e572
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1476JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1477
ac4ef9bd
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1478JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1479
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1480TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1481
c713ca4b
TL
1482TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1483 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1484
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1485JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1486 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1487 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1488 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1489 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
bd21a787
WB
1490 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1491
8bc732e8
JH
1492JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1493 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1494 exceeded it.
1495
a7fec7a7
JH
1496JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1497 version 3.3.6 or later.
1498
4c04137d 1499JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1500 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1501 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1502 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
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1503 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1504 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1505 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1506
eca4debb
TL
1507TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1508 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1509
8d692470
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1510JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1511 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1512 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1513 matches.
1514
e9477a08
JH
1515JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1516 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1517 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1518
ad4c5ff9
JH
1519JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1520 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1521
1522JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1523 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1524 syntax errors.
1525
3394b36a 1526JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1527
1528JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1529 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1530
3394b36a
TL
1531TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1532 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1533 tarball.
1534
ad4c5ff9
JH
1535JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1536
4c04137d 1537JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1538 Bug 1561.
1539
1540JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1541 output list separator was used.
1542
8bc732e8 1543
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1546TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1547 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1548 return.
1f0ebb98 1549
a612424f 1550JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1551 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1552
1553JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1554
1555TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1556 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1557
1f0ebb98 1558
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1559Exim version 4.83
1560-----------------
1561
1562TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1563
1564 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1565 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1566 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1567 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1568 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1569 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1570
7245734e
TF
1571TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1572 utilities have not been installed.
1573
fd5dad68
JH
1574JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1575 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1576
5428a946
TL
1577TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1578 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1579
a3c86431
TL
1580TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1581 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1582 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1583 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1584
aa26e137
JH
1585JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1586
5a1b8443
WB
1587TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1588 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1589
72c9e342
PP
1590PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1591 not dns_use_dnssec.
1592
76f44207
WB
1593JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1594
770747fd
MFM
1595TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1596 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1597 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1598
8ddef691 1599TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
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1600 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1601 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1602 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1603 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1604 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1605
b9c2e32f
AR
1606JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1607
e45a1c37
JH
1608JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1609 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1610
67d81c10
JH
1611JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1612 failed delivery.
1613
b1f8e4f8
JH
1614JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1615
511a6c14 1616JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1617
1618JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1619 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1620
51c7471d
JH
1621JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1622 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1623
3695be34
TL
1624TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1625
1e06383a
TL
1626JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1627
76146973
JH
1628JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1629 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1630
1631 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1632 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1633 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1634
8c8b8274
TL
1635TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1636 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1637 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1638 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1639
35aba663
JH
1640JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1641
8c51eead 1642JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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JH
1643 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1644 lookup).
8c51eead 1645
deae092e
HS
1646TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1647 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1648 Schlichting.
35aba663 1649
fd3b6a4a 1650JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1651 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1652
8d91c6dc
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1653TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1654 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1655
2b4a568d
JH
1656JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1657
d2af03f4
HS
1658TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1659 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1660 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1661
9d1c15ef
JH
1662JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1663 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1664
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JH
1665JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1666 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1667 hosts_request_ocsp.
1668
ed3bba5f 1669JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1670 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1671 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1672
8ccd00b1
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1673JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1674
8ded8589
TL
1675TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1676 Christian Aistleitner.
1677
f2de3a33
JH
1678JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1679
6eb02f88
TL
1680TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1681 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1682
00bff6f6
JH
1683JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1684 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1685
071c51f7
JH
1686JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1687 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1688
a6d4c44e
TF
1689TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1690 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1691
3ae173e7
ACK
1692TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1693 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1694
c13d09b8
TL
1695TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1696 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1697 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1698
0df4ab80
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1699JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1700
66be95e0
PP
1701PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1702 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1703 Jasper Wallace.
1704
1bd0d12b
JH
1705JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1706
0de7239e
TL
1707TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1708 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1709 CVE-2014-2972
1710
fd3b6a4a 1711
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1714
1715PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1716
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1717PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1718 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1719
54c90be1
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1720PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1721 by GnuTLS.
1722
1f4a55da
PP
1723PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1724 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1725 routines.
1726
13363eba 1727PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1728
66645890 1729PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1730 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1731 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1732 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1733 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1734
a3fb9793 1735PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1736 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1737 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1738 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1739 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1740 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1741
d27f98fe 1742TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1743
6822b909
TL
1744TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1745
e7568d51
TL
1746TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1747 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1748
ae0e32ee 1749TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1750 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1751 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
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1752
1753TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1754
e2658fff
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1755TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1756
83712b39
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1757TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1758 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1759
976b7e9f
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1760JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1761
be4a1376
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1762JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1763
ec4b68e5
PP
1764PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1765
d7148a07
NM
1766NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1767 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1768
585121e2 1769JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1770
2519e60d
TL
1771PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1772 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1773 function.
a5f239e4 1774
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1775PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1776 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1777
bef3ea7f
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1778JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1779 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1780 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1781
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JH
1782JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1783
3a796370
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1784JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1785
ea722490 1786JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1787 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1788
b1b05573
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1789JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1790 Bugzilla 884.
1791
362145b5
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1792JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1793 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1794
3c0a92dc
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1795JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1796 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1797
6d7c6175
PP
1798PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1799 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1800 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1801
6f123593
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1802JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1803 authenticators.
1804
c8e2fc1e
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1805JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1806 for control.
1807
005ac57f
PP
1808PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1809
3f1df0e3
PP
1810PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1811 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1812 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1813 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1814
67bd1ab3
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1815TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1816
1817 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1818 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1819 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1820 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1821 the retry rules.
1822
1823 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1824 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1825 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1826
1827 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1828 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1829 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1830 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1831
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1832 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1833 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1834 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1835 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1836 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1837 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1838 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1839
1840 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1841 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1842
326cdc37
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1843TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1844
1845 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1846
1847 Resent-From: f
1848
1849 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1850 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1851 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1852 username as equal to the username.
1853
1854 This change corrects that bug.
1855
f62514b3
GF
1856GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1857 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1858 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1859
eb505532
TF
1860TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1861
14c7b357
PP
1862PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1863 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1864 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1865 NULL dereference and crash.
1866
94eaf700
PP
1867JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1868
6f5a440a
PP
1869PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1870 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1871 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1872
514ee161
SC
1873SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1874
fd98a5c6
JH
1875JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1876 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1877 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1878 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1879 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1880 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1881 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1882 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1883 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1884 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1885 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1886
035c7f1e
PP
1887PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1888 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1889
ff284120
PP
1890PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1891 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1892 Bugzilla 880.
1893
26e72755
PP
1894PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1895 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1896 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1897 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1898 an empty string is now equivalent.
1899
0fbd9bff
PP
1900PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1901 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1902 not performing validation itself.
1903
700d22f3
PP
1904PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1905 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1906
fcc8e047
JH
1907JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1908 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1909
4c04137d 1910TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1911
8c020188
PP
1912PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1913 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1914 other false fix of the same issue.
1915 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1916 Bugzilla 1363.
1917
d13cdd30
PP
1918PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1919 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1920
e2fbf4a2
PP
1921PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1922 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1923 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1924
f4c1088b
PP
1925PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1926 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1927 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1928
c5c2182f
PP
1929TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1930
73431ca9
JH
1931JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1932
2d07a215
TL
1933TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1934 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1935
a30a8861
TL
1936TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1937 Alexander Miroch.
1938
33382dd9
TL
1939TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1940 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1941 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1942 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1943 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1944
046172e6
TL
1945TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1946 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1947
581d7bee 1948TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1949 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1950 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1951
1952TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1953 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1954 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1955 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1956
237b2cf2
TL
1957TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1958
9fc5a352
TL
1959TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1960 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1961 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1962
b10e4ec2
TL
1963TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1964
e2cebd74
TL
1965TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1966 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1967 interaction.
1968
1969TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1970 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1971
2519e60d
TL
1972TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1973 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1974
e78e6ecf 1975
4263f395
PP
1976Exim version 4.80.1
1977-------------------
1978
1979PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1980 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1981 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1982
ea722490 1983
b1770b6e 1984Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1985-----------------
1986
1987PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1988 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1989 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1990
23c7e742
NM
1991NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1992
b322aac8
NM
1993NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1994 improved.
1995
4a891427
NM
1996NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1997
c1e794ba 1998PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1999
97753960
PP
2000PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2001
2002PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2003 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2004
df6303fa
PP
2005PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2006 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2007
7e6a8985
PP
2008PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2009 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2010
f1e05cc7 2011PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
2012 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2013 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2014
4c287009
PP
2015PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2016
b98bb9ac
PP
2017PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2018 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2019
4a6a987a
PP
2020PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2021
c45dd180 2022PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 2023
7db8d074
PP
2024PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2025 non-compliant senders.
2026 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2027
eae0036b 2028NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 2029 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
2030 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2031
dec5017e
PP
2032PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2033 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2034 in spool file corruption.
2035
c80c5570
PP
2036PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2037 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2038 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2039 "Got SSL error 2".
2040
076b11e2
PP
2041TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2042 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2043 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2044
5407bfff
JH
2045JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2046 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2047
9e45c72b
PP
2048JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2049
e74376d8
PP
2050PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2051 diagnostics.
2052 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2053
4c04137d 2054PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2055 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2056 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2057
7be682ca
PP
2058PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2059 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2060 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2061 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2062
ef840681
PP
2063PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2064 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2065
5bfb4cdf
PP
2066PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2067 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2068 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2069 resolver implementation change.
2070
c6e95d22
PP
2071PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2072 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2073
9cbad13b
PP
2074PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2075
9ee44efb
PP
2076PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2077
6a6084f8
PP
2078PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2079 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2080
12dd53c7
PP
2081PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2082 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2083
9e45c72b 2084JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2085 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2086
17c76198
PP
2087PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2088 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2089 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2090 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2091 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2092
53947857 2093PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2094
eae0036b 2095PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2096 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2097 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2098
9e45c72b 2099JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2100
7390e768
PP
2101PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2102 read-only, out of scope).
2103 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2104
08488c86
PP
2105PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2106 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2107 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2108 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2109
6475bd82
PP
2110PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2111
81f91683
PP
2112PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2113 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2114 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2115 real issues in debug logging.
2116
5779e6aa
PP
2117PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2118 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2119
3375e053
PP
2120PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2121 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2122 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2123
2124PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2125 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2126 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2127 problems.
3375e053 2128
9d26b8c0
PP
2129PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2130 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2131
57eb9e91 2132PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2133 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2134 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2135 needs to override this, it can.
2136
16880d1a
PP
2137PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2138 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2139 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2140
a799883d
PP
2141PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2142 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2143 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2144 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2145
3ecab157 2146PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2147
0599f9cf 2148
867fcbf5
PP
2149Exim version 4.77
2150-----------------
2151
2152PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2153 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2154
f1a29782
TF
2155TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2156
ab42bd23
TK
2157TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2158 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2159
0ca0cf52
TF
2160TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2161 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2162
921b12ca
TF
2163TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2164 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2165 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2166
2167 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2168 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2169 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2170 not safe for signals.
2171
2172 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2173 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2174 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2175 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2176 exiwhat.
2177
c99ce5c9
TF
2178TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2179
2180 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2181 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2182 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2183 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2184 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2185
2186 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2187 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2188 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2189 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2190 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2191 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2192
2193 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2194 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2195 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2196 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2197
2198 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2199 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2200 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2201 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2202
2203 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2204 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2205 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2206 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2207 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2208 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2209 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2210 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2211 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2212
2213 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2214 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2215 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2216 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2217
2218 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2219 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2220 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2221 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2222 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2223 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2224 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2225 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2226 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2227 details in the main documentation.
2228
3634fc25
TF
2229TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2230
792e8a19
TF
2231TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2232
5901f0ab
TF
2233TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2234 repository when doing development or release builds.
2235
7f2a2a43
PP
2236PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2237 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2238
061b7ebd
PP
2239PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2240 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2241 Bugzilla 97.
2242
e12f8c32
PP
2243PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2244
9e949f00 2245PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2246 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2247
2248PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2249 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2250
555ae6af 2251PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2252 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2253
2254PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2255 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2256
6f7fe114
PP
2257PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2258 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2259
c566dd90
PP
2260PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2261 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2262 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2263 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2264
d6cc7c78 2265PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2266 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2267 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2268
0d0e4455
PP
2269PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2270
3399bb60 2271PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2272
2273PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2274 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2275
0ca0cf52 2276
10906672
PP
2277Exim version 4.76
2278-----------------
2279
2280PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2281
754a0503
PP
2282PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2283 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2284
c0c7b2da
PP
2285PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2286
e97d1f08
PP
2287PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2288
084c1d8c
PP
2289PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2290 Bugzilla 1098.
2291
4e7ee012
PP
2292PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2293 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2294
c8d52a00
PP
2295TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2296 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2297
54e7ce4a
PP
2298PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2299 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2300
5ee6f336
PP
2301PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2302 Bugzilla 1104.
2303
c8d52a00 2304TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2305 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2306
2307TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2308 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2309 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2310 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2311
2312PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2313 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2314
10906672 2315
aa097c4c
NM
2316Exim version 4.75
2317-----------------
2318
4c04137d 2319NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2320 Bugzilla 1073
2321
7f3d9eff
TF
2322TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2323 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2324 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2325
159f52d2
TF
2326TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2327 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2328
0cc9542a
PP
2329PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2330 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2331 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2332
f7274286
PP
2333PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2334 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2335
7b797365
PP
2336PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2337 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2338
caacae52
NM
2339NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2340 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2341
09dcaba9
NM
2342NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2343 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2344
bc19a55b
PP
2345PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2346 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2347
bd4c9759
NM
2348NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2349 Fixes bug 943.
2350
b72aab72
PP
2351PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2352 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2353
2fe76745
PP
2354PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2355 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2356
76aa570c
PP
2357PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2358 SQL string expansion failure details.
2359 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2360
f1e5fef5
PP
2361PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2362 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2363
4d805ee9
PP
2364PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2365 extern declarations in function scope.
2366 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2367
cd59ab18
PP
2368PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2369 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2370 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2371 a kernel bug).
2372
332f5cf3
PP
2373PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2374 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2375
29cfeb94
PP
2376PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2377 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2378
660242ad
PP
2379PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2380 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2381
bc4bc4c5
PP
2382PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2383 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2384
2e64baa9
NM
2385NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2386 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2387 Dennis Davis.
2388
4c04137d 2389PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2390
6bac1a9a
PP
2391PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2392
552193f0
NM
2393NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2394 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2395
1b587e48
TF
2396TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2397 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2398
aa097c4c 2399
8c07b69f
TF
2400Exim version 4.74
2401-----------------
2402
2403TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2404 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2405
c0ea85ab
TF
2406TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2407 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2408
0761d44e
TF
2409TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2410
0a349494
PP
2411DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2412 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2413 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2414
2415PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2416 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2417 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2418
fea24b2e
PP
2419PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2420 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2421 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2422 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2423
6545de78
PP
2424PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2425 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2426 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2427 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2428
1670ef10
PP
2429PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2430 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2431 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2432 arbitrary files.
2433
c0886197
PP
2434PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2435 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2436
b7487bce
PP
2437PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2438 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2439 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2440 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2441 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2442
8c07b69f 2443
97fd1e48 2444Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2445-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2446
2447PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2448 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2449 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2450
6901c596
PP
2451PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2452 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2453
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2454JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2455
77bb000f
PP
2456PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2457
a29e5231
PP
2458PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2459
ec5a0394 2460PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2461
55c75993
PP
2462PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2463
453a6645 2464PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2465 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2466 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2467 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2468
8544e77a
PP
2469PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2470 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2471 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2472 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2473 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2474
83e029d5
PP
2475PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2476
ed7f7860
PP
2477PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2478
7d9f747b
PP
2479PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2480
4b2241d2
PP
2481PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2482
10385c15
PP
2483PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2484
dbc4b90d
PP
2485PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2486
532be449
PP
2487PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2488
6a8de854 2489PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2490 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2491 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2492
5dc43717
JJ
2493JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2494
2495JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2496 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2497
3346ab01
PP
2498PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2499 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2500
491fab4c
PP
2501PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2502 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2503 Notification from John Horne.
2504
13eb9497
PP
2505PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2506 compatible.
2507
2508PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2509 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2510 it normally works.
2511
7f36d675
DW
2512DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2513 access.
2514
c1d94452
DW
2515DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2516 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2517 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2518
e2f5dc15
DW
2519DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2520 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2521 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2522 configuration file.
2523
cd25e41d
DW
2524DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2525 option (effectively making it always true).
2526
261dc43e
DW
2527DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2528 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2529
fa32850b
DW
2530DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2531 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2532
79d4bc3d
PP
2533PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2534 run-time user, instead of root.
2535
43236f35 2536PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2537 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2538
fb08281f
DW
2539DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2540 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2541 arguments.
3346ab01 2542
74935b98
DW
2543DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2544 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2545 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2546
90b6341f
DW
2547DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2548
57730b52
ML
2549NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2550
66581d1e 2551
465e92cf
JJ
2552Exim version 4.72
2553-----------------
2554
453a6645
PP
2555JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2556 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2557 typos
465e92cf 2558
453a6645
PP
2559JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2560 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2561 (Finput)
edae0343 2562
9bd3e22c
NM
2563NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2564 Patch from Alain Williams
2565
bb576ff7
NM
2566NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2567
5a1a5845
NM
2568NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2569 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2570
981a9fad
NM
2571NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2572 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2573
7fc497ee
NM
2574NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2575
1a41defa
JJ
2576JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2577
a466095c 2578NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2579 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2580
94a6bd0b
NM
2581TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2582
2583TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2584
2585MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2586 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2587 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2588
c1b141a8
NM
2589NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2590 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2591
b26eacf1 2592NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2593 Patch by Simon Arlott
2594
179c5980 2595PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2596 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2597
9bd3e22c 2598
7c6d71af
NM
2599Exim version 4.71
2600-----------------
2601
7d9f747b 2602TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2603
f013fb92
NM
2604NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2605
0eb8eedd
NM
2606NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2607
663ee6d9
NM
2608NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2609
177ebd9b
NM
2610NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2611
7c6d71af 2612
210f147e
NM
2613Exim version 4.70
2614-----------------
2615
cdd3bb85 2616TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2617 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2618
2619TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2620 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2621 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2622
2623TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2624 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2625 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2626
2627TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2628 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2629
210f147e
NM
2630NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2631 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2632 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2633 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2634
deafd5b3
NM
2635NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2636 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2637 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2638
089793a4
TF
2639TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2640
5f16ca82
TF
2641TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2642
dae9d94e 2643NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2644 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2645
7d9f747b 2646NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2647
06864c44
TF
2648TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2649 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2650 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2651 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2652
65a7d8c3 2653NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2654 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2655
23510047 2656TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2657
7d9f747b 2658NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2659
7d8eec3a 2660NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2661 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2662
89dec7b6
TF
2663TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2664 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2665
a99de90c
TF
2666TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2667 that they are available at delivery time.
2668
e2803e40
TF
2669TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2670
7199e1ee
TF
2671TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2672 incoming_port log selectors.
2673
e276e04b
TF
2674TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2675 setting expands to an empty string.
2676
ce552449 2677NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2678 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2679
e765a0f1 2680NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2681 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2682
4f054c63 2683NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2684 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2685
7d9f747b
PP
2686NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2687 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2688
7d9f747b
PP
2689NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2690 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2691
b52bc06e 2692NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2693 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2694
447de4b0
NM
2695NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2696
4c69d561 2697NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2698 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2699
d5c39246 2700NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2701 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2702
0b23848a
TK
2703TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2704
8f3414a1 2705NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2706 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2707
fb6f955d
NM
2708NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2709
2710NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2711
7d9f747b
PP
2712NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2713 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2714
7d9f747b
PP
2715NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2716 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2717
7d9f747b
PP
2718NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2719 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2720
7d9f747b
PP
2721NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2722 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2723
7d9f747b
PP
2724NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2725 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2726
7d9f747b
PP
2727NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2728 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2729
7d9f747b
PP
2730NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2731 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2732
7d9f747b 2733NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2734 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2735
7d9f747b 2736NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2737
7d9f747b
PP
2738NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2739 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2740
7d9f747b 2741NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2742
7d9f747b 2743NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2744
7d9f747b 2745NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2746
7d9f747b 2747NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2748
17792b53 2749NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2750 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2751
7d9f747b
PP
2752NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2753 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2754
91576cec 2755NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2756 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2757
7d9f747b
PP
2758NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2759 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2760
7d9f747b 2761NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2762
7d9f747b 2763NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2764
7d9f747b 2765NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2766
7d9f747b 2767NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2768
deafd5b3 2769
47db1125
NM
2770Exim version 4.69
2771-----------------
2772
4b3504d0
TK
2773TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2774 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2775 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2776
2777 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2778 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2779 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2780 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2781 build errors in sieve.c.
2782
81ea09ca
NM
2783NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2784 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2785 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2786
f13cddcb
SC
2787SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2788
7d9f747b 2789NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2790
7d9f747b 2791NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2792
7d9f747b 2793NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2794
2795
eb4c0de6
PH
2796Exim version 4.68
2797-----------------
2798
2799PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2800
6a3bceb1
PH
2801PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2802 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2803 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2804 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2805 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2806 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2807 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2808 for iplsearch lookups.
2809
2810 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2811 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2812 previously such lookups could never work.
2813
4c04137d 2814 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2815 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2816 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2817
2e30fa9d
TK
2818TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2819 version.
2820
0806a9c5
MH
2821MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2822 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2823 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2824 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2825 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2826 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2827
ae276964
TK
2828TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2829 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2830
0f2cbd1b
MH
2831MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2832 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2833 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2834 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2835 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2836 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2837
2b85bce7
PH
2838PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2839 local_scan API.
2840
93655c46
PH
2841PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2842
6c512171
PH
2843PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2844 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2845 encrypted.
2846
2847PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2848 by clients under certain conditions.
2849
aa6dc513
PH
2850PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2851 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2852
a96603a0
PH
2853PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2854
8f240103
PH
2855PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2856 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2857
2858PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2859
d677b2f2
PH
2860PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2861
d52120f2
PH
2862PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2863
64f2600a
PH
2864PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2865 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2866
8669f003
PH
2867PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2868
a4dc33a8
PH
2869PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2870 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2871
d6a60c0f
PH
2872PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2873
8f128379
PH
2874PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2875
8932dffe
PH
2876PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2877 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2878 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2879 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2880
ddea74fa 2881PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2882 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2883 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2884
ddea74fa 2885PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2886 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2887
ddea74fa
PH
2888PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2889
ce9f225c
PH
2890PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2891
19897d52
PH
2892PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2893
bc64a74d
PH
2894PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2895 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2896 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2897
eb4c0de6 2898
b4ed4da0
PH
2899Exim version 4.67
2900-----------------
2901
22ad45c9
MH
2902MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2903 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2904 Jan Srzednicki.
2905
b4ed4da0
PH
2906PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2907 issue a MAIL command.
2908
431b7361
PH
2909PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2910
2911 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2912
2913 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2914 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2915 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2916 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2917 item. This has been fixed.
2918
2919PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2920 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2921
83da1223
PH
2922PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2923 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2924
54fc8428
PH
2925PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2926 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2927 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2928
34c5e8dd
SC
2929SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2930
bbe15da8
PH
2931PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2932 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2933 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2934 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2935 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2936
0e8a9471
MH
2937MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2938 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2939 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2940
f0872424
PH
2941PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2942 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2943 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2944 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2945
b01dd148
PH
2946PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2947
6bf342e1
PH
2948PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2949
273f34d0
PH
2950PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2951 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2952 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2953 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2954 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2955
cf8b11a5
PH
2956PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2957
41c7c167
PH
2958PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2959 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2960 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2961 values).
2962
9c57cbc0
PH
2963PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2964
f3f065bb
PH
2965PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2966
047bdd8c
PH
2967PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2968
0ce9abe6
PH
2969PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2970
0e22dfd1
PH
2971PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2972
4c590bd1
PH
2973PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2974 no_callout_flush is set.
2975
09945f1e
PH
2976PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2977 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2978 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2979 fixed.
2980
c51b8e75
PH
2981PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2982
e28326d8 2983PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2984 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2985 other ACL rejections are.
2986
75b1493f
PH
2987PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2988 with slight modification.
2989
7c5214ec
PH
2990PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2991 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2992
4311097e
PH
2993PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2994 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2995 connection.
2996
29f89cad
PH
2997PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2998 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2999
5e687460
SC
3000SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3001
c3611384
PH
3002PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3003 expansion side effects.
3004
5a11a7b4
PH
3005PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3006 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3007 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3008 be the same.
3009
0e20aff9
MH
3010MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3011 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3012 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3013
ca86f471
PH
3014PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3015 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3016 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3017 were accidentally chopped off.
3018
a14e5636
PH
3019PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3020 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3021 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3022 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3023 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3024 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3025 pipelining has not been advertised.
3026
ec95d1a6
PH
3027PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3028
42855d71
PH
3029PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3030 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3031 This has been fixed.
3032
57c2c631
PH
3033PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3034 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3035 reported on Solaris.
3036
58c01c94
PH
3037PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3038 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3039 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3040 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3041 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3042 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3043 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3044
dee5a20a
PH
3045PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3046 cpus.
3047
d2ee6114
PH
3048PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3049
b2d5182b
PH
3050PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3051
79749a79
PH
3052PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3053 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3054 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3055 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3056 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3057 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3058
c456d9bb
PH
3059PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3060 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3061 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3062 host_all_ignored option.
3063
cd9868ec
PH
3064PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3065 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3066 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3067 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3068 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3069 is what is supposed to happen).
3070
ebeaf996
PH
3071PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3072 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3073 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3074 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3075 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3076 uses the Exim user.
3077
2679d413
PH
3078PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3079 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3080 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3081 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3082 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3083 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3084 users.
3085
84024b72
PH
3086PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3087
8005d38e
SC
3088SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3089 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3090 (Jez Hancock).
3091 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3092 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3093
3298c6c6
SC
3094SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3095
a43a27c5
PH
3096PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3097
58eb016e 3098PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3099 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3100 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3101 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3102 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3103 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3104 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3105 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3106 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3107 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3108 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3109
b43a74ea
PH
3110PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3111 advertised in response to EHLO.
3112
b4ed4da0 3113
5dd1517f
PH
3114Exim version 4.66
3115-----------------
3116
3117PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3118 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3119
3120 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3121 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3122
3123 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3124 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3125 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3126
3127 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3128 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3129 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3130 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3131 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3132
3133
93cfa765
TK
3134Exim version 4.65
3135-----------------
3136
3137TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3138 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3139 versions. (#438)
3140
d6066548
MH
3141MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3142 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3143 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3144
4362ff0d
PH
3145PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3146 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3147 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3148 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3149 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3150 rather than extend the field.
3151
93cfa765 3152
944e9e9c
TF
3153Exim version 4.64
3154-----------------
aa41d2de 3155
21d74bd9
TK
3156TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3157 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3158 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3159 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3160 these files.
3161
3162TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3163 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3164 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3165
3166TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3167 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3168 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3169
3170TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3171 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3172 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3173 in the field name.
3174
2b1c6e3a
PH
3175PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3176 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3177 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3178 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3179 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3180 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3181 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3182 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3183 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3184 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3185 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3186
1f872c80
PH
3187PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3188 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3189
3190PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3191 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3192 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3193 ignores EPIPE as well.
3194
d203e649
PH
3195PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3196 (quoted-printable decoding).
3197
cc2ed8f7 3198PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3199 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3200
ddfcd446
PH
3201PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3202
d45b1de8
PH
3203PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3204
3205PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3206
38a0a95f 3207PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3208 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3209
a2405d83
JJ
3210JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3211 in 4.64-PH/09.
3212
3213JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3214 miscellaneous code fixes
3215
6ea85e9a
PH
3216PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3217 rejections.
3218
26da7e20
PH
3219PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3220 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3221 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3222 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3223 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3224 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3225 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3226 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3227
14aa5a05 3228PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3229 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3230 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3231 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3232 function.
3233 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3234 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3235 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3236 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3237 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3238 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3239 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3240 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3241 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3242
ff75a1f7
PH
3243PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3244 decoding.
3245
e6f6568e
PH
3246PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3247 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3248 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3249 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3250 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3251 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3252 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3253 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3254
d6f6e0dc
PH
3255PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3256 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3257 list.
3258
322050c2
PH
3259PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3260 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3261 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3262 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3263 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3264 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3265 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3266 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3267 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3268 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3269 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3270 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3271 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3272
08955dd3
PH
3273PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3274 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3275 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3276 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3277 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3278 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3279 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3280
1eccaa59
PH
3281PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3282 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3283 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3284 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3285 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3286 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3287 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3288 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3289 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3290 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3291
602e59e5
PH
3292PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3293 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3294 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3295 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3296 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3297
411ef850
PH
3298PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3299 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3300 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3301 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3302 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3303 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3304 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3305
7befa435
PH
3306PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3307 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3308 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3309 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3310 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3311 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3312 been verified.
3313
48da4259 3314PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3315 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3316 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3317 and authorization.)
3318
48da4259
PH
3319PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3320 if any retry times were supplied.
3321
d1d5595c
PH
3322PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3323 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3324 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3325
0ef732d9
PH
3326PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3327
328895cc
PH
3328PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3329
fd700877
PH
3330PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3331 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3332 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3333 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3334 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3335 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3336
8dce1a6f
PH
3337PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3338 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3339
17af4a17
PH
3340PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3341 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3342 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3343
3344PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3345 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3346 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3347 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3348 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3349 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3350 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3351 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3352 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3353
3354 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3355 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3356 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3357 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3358 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3359 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3360 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3361 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3362 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3363
3364 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3365 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3366 hammering the server.
3367
c1114884
PH
3368PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3369 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3370
7a0743eb
PH
3371PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3372
0d85fa3f
PH
3373PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3374 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3375 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3376
1bf43b78
PH
3377PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3378 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3379 one case where this was not true.
3380
520de300
PH
3381PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3382 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3383 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3384 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3385 fails.
3386
48c7f9e2
PH
3387PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3388 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3389 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3390 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3391 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3392 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3393 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3394 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3395 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3396 smtp transport.
3397
99ea1c86
PH
3398PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3399 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3400 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3401 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3402
a2042e78
PH
3403PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3404 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3405
4fbcfc2e
PH
3406PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3407 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3408 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3409
aa41d2de
PH
3410PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3411
af561417
PH
3412PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3413
3cc66b45
PH
3414PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3415
194cc0e4
PH
3416PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3417 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3418 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3419 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3420
a401ddaa
PH
3421PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3422 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3423
4e88a19f
PH
3424PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3425 be meaningful with "accept".
3426
d7d7b289
SC
3427SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3428 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3429
3430SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3431 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3432 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3433
3434SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3435 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3436 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3437 there is data to show.
3438 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3439
3440SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3441 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3442 as well as the number of messages.
3443
3444SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3445 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3446 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3447
3448SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3449 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3450 have a flag are now skipped.
3451
3452SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3453 Added the -emptyok flag.
3454
3455SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3456 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3457
0ea2a468
JJ
3458JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3459 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3460 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3461
3462JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3463 match 4.64-PH/13
3464
3465JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3466 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3467
3468JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3469
3470JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3471 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3472
8a10f5a4
PH
3473PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3474
30e18802
PH
3475PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3476 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3477 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3478 contravention of the specifications.
3479
55728a4f
PH
3480PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3481 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3482 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3483
d7837193
PH
3484PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3485 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3486 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3487
87054a31
PH
3488PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3489
ea2c01d2
MH
3490MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3491 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3492 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3493 some point in the past.
3494
e4fa6968
PH
3495PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3496 transport during callout processing was broken.
3497
56f5d9bd
PH
3498PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3499 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3500
922e1c28
PH
3501PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3502 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3503
21eb6e72
PH
3504PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3505 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3506
a0540757
PH
3507PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3508
944e9e9c 3509
478be7b0
SC
3510Exim version 4.63
3511-----------------
3512
3513SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3514 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3515
3516SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3517 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3518 there is data to show.
3519 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3520
3521SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3522 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3523
2b965a65
TF
3524TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3525 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3526
45b91596
PH
3527TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3528 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3529
c59f5781
TF
3530TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3531 submissions from trusted users.
3532
90fc3069
TF
3533TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3534 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3535
6083aca0
TF
3536TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3537 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3538 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3539 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3540 there is now a framework to start from.
3541
765b530f
PH
3542PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3543 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3544 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3545
4e167a8c
PH
3546PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3547
4608d683
PH
3548PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3549
b8dc3e4a
PH
3550PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3551
5418e93b
PH
3552PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3553 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3554 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3555
b4a9bda2
PH
3556PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3557 libradius.
3558
45b91596
PH
3559PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3560 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3561 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3562
5547e2c5
PH
3563PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3564 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3565 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3566 its arguments.
3567
dbcef0ea
PH
3568PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3569 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3570 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3571 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3572 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3573
25257489
PH
3574PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3575 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3576
c816d124
PH
3577PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3578
a9ccd69a
PH
3579PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3580 operations in malware.c.
3581
75fa1910
PH
3582PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3583 signatures.
3584
a7d7aa58
PH
3585PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3586 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3587 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3588 all.
3589
42119b09
PH
3590PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3591 statements to "add_header".
3592
41609df5
PH
3593PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3594 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3595
a5bd321b
PH
3596PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3597 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3598 latter.
3599
e85a7ad5 3600PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3601 so that it is now:
3602
e85a7ad5
PH
3603 ${if or { \
3604 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3605 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3606 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3607 }{no}{yes}}
3608
e85a7ad5
PH
3609 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3610 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3611
d8fe1c03
PH
3612PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3613 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3614
16282d2b
PH
3615PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3616 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3617 any possible encoding problems.
3618
35d40a98
PH
3619PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3620 but not after initializing Perl.
3621
034d99ab
PH
3622PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3623 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3624 apparently, which is not desirable.
3625
6ec97b1b
PH
3626PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3627 queries.
3628
e22ca4ac
JJ
3629JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3630 --not options
3631
3632JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3633
33d73e3b
PH
3634PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3635 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3636 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3637 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3638
9ecb03f3
PH
3639PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3640 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3641 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3642
084efe8d
PH
3643PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3644 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3645 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3646 0.12.
3647
366fc9f0
PH
3648PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3649 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3650 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3651 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3652 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3653
c59f5781 3654
c887c79e
TF
3655Exim version 4.62
3656-----------------
3657
3658TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3659 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3660
1cce3af8
PH
3661PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3662 patch).
3663
afb3eaaf
PH
3664PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3665 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3666 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3667 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3668 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3669 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3670 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3671 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3672 451 error is used.
3673
e173618b
PH
3674PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3675
dd16e114
PH
3676PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3677 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3678 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3679
f7fd3850
PH
3680PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3681 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3682 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3683 odd errors.
3684
d87df92c
PH
3685PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3686 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3687
7e9f683d
PH
3688PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3689 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3690 option (which defaults to 0600).
3691
bfad5236
PH
3692PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3693
01c490df
PH
3694PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3695 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3696 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3697 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3698 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3699 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3700 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3701
d6629cdc
PH
3702PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3703
1cce3af8 3704
214e2000
PH
3705Exim version 4.61
3706-----------------
3707
3708PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3709 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3710 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3711 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3712 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3713 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3714 addresses as local.
3715
f9daeae0
PH
3716PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3717 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3718
7e66e54d
PH
3719PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3720
c8ea1597
PH
3721PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3722 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3723 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3724 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3725 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3726 grumble.
3727
911f6fde
PH
3728PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3729 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3730
47ca6d6c
PH
3731PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3732 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3733 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3734 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3735 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3736
ed0e9820
PH
3737PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3738 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3739 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3740 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3741
eff37e47
PH
3742PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3743 be the same on different OS.
3744
1921d2ea
PH
3745PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3746 testing.
3747
b3f69ca8
JJ
3748JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3749 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3750
3751JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3752 in 4.61-PH/06
3753
424a1c63
PH
3754PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3755 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3756 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3757 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3758 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3759 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3760 bounce message.
3761
7a100415
PH
3762PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3763 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3764 when Exim was called.
3765
19b9dc85
PH
3766PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3767 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3768
309bd837
PH
3769PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3770 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3771 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3772 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3773
59e82a2a
PH
3774PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3775 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3776 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3777 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3778 changes:
3779
3780 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3781 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3782 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3783
3784 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3785 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3786 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3787
9edc04ce
PH
3788PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3789 feature).
3790
1349e1e5
PH
3791PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3792 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3793 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3794 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3795 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3796 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3797 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3798 values from the SRV records were lost.
3799
ea49d0e1
PH
3800PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3801 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3802 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3803
064a94c9
PH
3804PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3805 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3806 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3807
727071f8
PH
3808PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3809 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3810 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3811 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3812 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3813 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3814 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3815 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3816 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3817 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3818
f78eb7c6
PH
3819PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3820 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3821 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3822
21c28500
PH
3823PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3824 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3825
3826PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3827 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3828 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3829 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3830 is given.
3831
1688f43b
PH
3832PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3833 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3834 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3835
3836PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3837 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3838 PH/23 above applies.
3839
9675b384
PH
3840PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3841 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3842 (for which there is an explicit test).
3843
6a3f1455
PH
3844PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3845
dac79d3e
PH
3846PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3847 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3848 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3849 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3850 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3851
5977a0b3
PH
3852PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3853 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3854 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3855 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3856
c91535f3
PH
3857PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3858 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3859 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3860
0d46a8c8
PH
3861PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3862
278c6e6c
PH
3863PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3864
2cbb4081
PH
3865PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3866 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3867 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3868
3eef829e
PH
3869PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3870 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3871 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3872 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3873 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3874
1ab95fa6
PH
3875PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3876 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3877 the message gets confusing).
3878
230205fc
PH
3879PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3880 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3881 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3882 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3883
75e0e026
PH
3884PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3885 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3886 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3887 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3888 same order.
3889
3890PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3891 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3892 the different processes.
3893
145396a6
PH
3894PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3895
3cd34f13
PH
3896PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3897
11121d3d
JJ
3898JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3899 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3900
3901JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3902 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3903
3904JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3905 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3906 messages matching specified criteria.
3907
8def5aaf
PH
3908PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3909
929ba01c
PH
3910PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3911 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3912
2632889e
PH
3913PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3914 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3915 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3916 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3917 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3918 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3919 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3920 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3921 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3922 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3923
944a9c55
PH
3924PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3925 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3926 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3927
4a23603b
PH
3928PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3929
4730f942
PH
3930PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3931 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3932 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3933 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3934 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3935 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3936 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3937 the variable.
3938
30dba1e6
PH
3939PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3940 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3941
382afc6b
PH
3942PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3943
a86229cf
PH
3944PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3945
50c99ba6
PH
3946PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3947
d35e429d
PH
3948PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3949 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3950 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3951 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3952 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3953 size of the count of files.
3954
f90d018c
PH
3955PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3956
75def545
PH
3957PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3958 used in LMTP mode:
3959
3960 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3961 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3962 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3963 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3964
3965 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3966 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3967 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3968
3969PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3970 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3971 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3972 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3973 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3974
c46782ef
PH
3975PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3976 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3977
71fafd95
PH
3978PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3979 will now be deprecated.
3980
2c5db4fd
PH
3981PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3982
9cf6b11a
JJ
3983JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3984 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3985 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3986
3987JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3988 with very large, slow to parse queues
3989
3990JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3991
3992JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3993
898d150f
PH
3994PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3995 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3996 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3997 SMTP output lines.
3998
46218253
PH
3999PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4000 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4001 Sieve code now uses this.
4002
e97957bc
PH
4003PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4004 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4005
81e509d7
PH
4006PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4007 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4008
3d240ff7
PH
4009PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4010
b37c4101
PH
4011PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4012 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4013 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4014 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4015 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4016
79378e0f
PH
4017PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4018 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4019 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4020 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4021
e49c7bb4
PH
4022PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4023
d114ec46
PH
4024PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4025
f3d7df6c
PH
4026PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4027 is preferred over IPv4.
4028
715ab376
PH
4029PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4030 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4031 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4032 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4033 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4034 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4035 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4036
6b31b150
PH
4037PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4038 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4039 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4040
4041PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4042
d515a917
PH
4043PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4044 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4045 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4046 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4047 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4048 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4049 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4050 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4051 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4052 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4053 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4054
9b8fadde
PH
4055PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4056 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4057 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4058
214e2000 4059
5de37277
PH
4060Exim version 4.60
4061-----------------
4062
cc38ddbf
PH
4063PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4064
4065 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4066 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4067
4068 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4069 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4070 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4071
72fdd6ae
PH
4072PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4073
4074 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4075 not a single digit.
4076
4077 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4078 string.
4079
4080 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4081 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4082 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4083 silly things.
4084
4085 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4086 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4087
4088 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4089 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4090
cb741023
PH
4091PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4092 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4093 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4094
f174f16e
PH
4095PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4096 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4097
c25242d7
PH
4098PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4099 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4100
4101 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4102
4103 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4104 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4105 this:
4106
4107 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4108
82c19f95
PH
4109PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4110 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4111 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4112 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4113 identical. For example:
4114
4115 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4116
4117 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4118 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4119 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4120
d7ffbc12
PH
4121PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4122 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4123 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4124 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4125
9f526266
PH
4126PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4127 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4128 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4129 message.
4130
87fcc8b9
PH
4131PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4132
4133 o fixes some comments
4134 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4135 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4136 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4137 and documents the missing references header update
4138
4139 and most important:
4140
4141 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4142 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4143 result)
4144
456682f5
PH
4145PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4146 Electronic Mail") by including:
4147
4148 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4149
4150 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4151 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4152 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4153 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4154 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4155
4156 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4157
4158 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4159
4160 The auto-replied keyword:
4161
4162 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4163 message by an automatic process,
4164
4165 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4166
4167 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4168 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4169
4170 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4171 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4172 other messages.
4173
3e46c1aa
PH
4174PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4175 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4176
49826d12
PH
4177PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4178
eba0c039
PH
4179PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4180 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4181 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4182
a0d6ba8a
PH
4183PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4184 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4185 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4186
f0917727
PH
4187PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4188 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4189 and treats the condition as false.
4190
096fee00
PH
4191PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4192
024bd3c2
PH
4193PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4194 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4195 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4196 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4197 not changing the active code.
4198
4199 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4200 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4201
4202 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4203 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4204
df199fec
PH
4205PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4206 (Bugzilla #53).
4207
d27f1df3
PH
4208PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4209 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4210 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4211 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4212 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4213 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4214 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4215 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4216 the text comparison.
4217
96776534
PH
4218PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4219 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4220 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4221 The same fix has been applied.
4222
5de37277 4223
9a799bc0
PH
4224Exim version 4.54
4225-----------------
4226
4227PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4228 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4229 It now does.
4230
99a4b039
PH
4231PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4232 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4233
4234PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4235
4b233853
PH
4236PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4237 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4238 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4239 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4240 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4241
8857ccfd
PH
4242TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4243 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4244 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4245 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4246 or /domain=).
4247
433a2980
PH
4248PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4249 testing suite.
4250
3e46c1aa 4251
9a799bc0 4252
e3a311ba
TK
4253Exim version 4.53
4254-----------------
4255
4256TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4257 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4258
13b685f9
PH
4259PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4260
395ff96d
PH
4261PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4262
5b68f6e4
PH
4263PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4264 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4265 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4266
1ab52c69
PH
4267PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4268 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4269 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4270
b07e6aa3
PH
4271PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4272 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4273 operating systems.
4274
254e032f
PH
4275PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4276 ${stat: expansion item.
4277
3af76a81
PH
4278PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4279 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4280
2548ba04
PH
4281PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4282 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4283 file for comments.
4284
b6c6011d
PH
4285PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4286
cf39cf57
PH
4287PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4288 setting.
4289
f1513293
PH
4290PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4291 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4292
727549a4
PH
4293TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4294
af46795e
PH
4295PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4296 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4297 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4298 the end of the subprocess.
4299
d7b47fd0
PH
4300PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4301 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4302 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4303 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4304 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4305
ee744174
JJ
4306JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4307
b582ab87
PH
4308TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4309
41a13e0a
PH
4310PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4311 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4312
f625cc5a
PH
4313PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4314
4315PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4316
21f7af35
PH
4317PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4318 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4319 HP-UX compiler.
4320
31480e42
PH
4321PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4322
2d280592
PH
4323PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4324 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4325 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4326
7cd1141b
PH
4327PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4328 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4329
4330PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4331 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4332
750af86e
PH
4333PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4334 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4335
4336 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4337 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4338
4339 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4340 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4341 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4342 contributed by a Radius user.
4343
4344PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4345 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4346
4304270b
TK
4347TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4348 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4349
750af86e
PH
4350PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4351 available.
4352
64ffc24f
PH
4353PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4354 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4355 received.
4356
5dd9625b
PH
4357PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4358 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4359 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4360 header lines when this was not necessary.
4361
5591031b
PH
4362PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4363
ba18e66a
PH
4364PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4365 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4366 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4367 exists".
4368
9cec981f
PH
4369PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4370 -bV or -d is used.
4371
aa2b5c79
PH
4372PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4373 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4374 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4375 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4376
48a53b7f
PH
4377PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4378
1c59d63b
PH
4379PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4380
671012da
TK
4381TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4382
1509d3a8
PH
4383PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4384
4385PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4386 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4387 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4388 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4389 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4390 settings.
4391
4392PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4393
2fe1a124
PH
4394PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4395 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4396 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4397 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4398 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4399 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4400 which is clearly wrong.
4401
8800895a
PH
4402PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4403
ccfdb010
PH
4404PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4405 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4406 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4407 subsequently added.
4408
1130bfb0
PH
4409PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4410 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4411
ebcb507f
PH
4412PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4413
c35e155c
PH
4414PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4415 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4416
95d1f782
PH
4417PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4418 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4419
fd6de02e
PH
4420PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4421 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4422
58de37c5
PH
4423PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4424 recipients, not senders.
4425
261cf466
TF
4426TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4427 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4428
3ee512ff
PH
4429PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4430
e08c430f
PH
4431PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4432
bef5a11f
PH
4433PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4434 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4435 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4436 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4437
7546de58
TF
4438TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4439
e5d5a95f
TF
4440TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4441 clock is set back in time.
4442
2e88a017
TF
4443TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4444 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4445
a5f65aa4
TF
4446TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4447 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4448
e7726cbf
PH
4449PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4450 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4451 (see PH/47 above).
4452
a7fdad5b
TF
4453TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4454 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4455 header rewrites.
4456
6af56900
PH
4457PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4458 type ("H").
4459
0925ede6
PH
4460PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4461
66afa403
TF
4462TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4463 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4464 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4465
0154e85a
TF
4466TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4467 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4468 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4469 helo verification defer as a failure.
4470
16f12c76
PH
4471PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4472 actual error message.
4473
bbe902f0 4474
e5a9dba6
PH
4475Exim version 4.52
4476-----------------
4477
4478TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4479
22c3b60b
PH
4480PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4481 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4482 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4483 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4484
06a9b4b5
PH
4485TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4486
c1ac6996
PH
4487PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4488 can still be requested.
4489
9c7a242c
PH
4490PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4491 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4492 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4493 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4494
87ba3f5f
PH
4495TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4496 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4497 circumstances, but probably never did.
4498
4499PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4500 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4501 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4502 in the header line.
4503
29aba418
TF
4504TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4505
fe0dab11
TF
4506TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4507 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4508
11d337a4
TK
4509TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4510
4511TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4512
415c8f3b
PH
4513PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4514 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4515 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4516 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4517 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4518 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4519
958541e9
PH
4520PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4521 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4522 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4523 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4524 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4525 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4526
c206415f
TK
4527TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4528 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4529
2a4be8f9
PH
4530PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4531 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4532
1cba11c5
SC
4533SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4534 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4535
4c04137d 4536SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4537
4538SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4539
4540SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4541
4542SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4543
4544SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4545
4546SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4547
1005d00e
TK
4548TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4549
4550TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4551 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4552 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4553
4554TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4555 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4556 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4557 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4558
9b4768fa
PH
4559PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4560 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4561 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4562
4563PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4564 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4565 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4566 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4567
0d7eb84a
PH
4568PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4569 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4570 to be made).
4571
4572PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4573 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4574 should work with maildirs and everything.
4575
40727bee
TK
4576TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4577 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4578
554d2369
TF
4579TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4580 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4581
1f922db1
PH
4582PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4583 function for BDB 4.3.
4584
ef213c3b
PH
4585PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4586
8ac170f3
PH
4587PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4588 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4589 involved.
4590
b1c749bb
PH
4591PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4592 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4593 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4594 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4595 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4596 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4597
4aac9b49
PH
4598PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4599 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4600 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4601 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4602 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4603 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4604 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4605 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4606
294520c8
TK
4607TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4608 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4609 details.
4610
5bd022fe
PH
4611PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4612 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4613
90e9ce59
PH
4614PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4615 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4616 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4617 test. It is now used for both.
4618
5ea81592
PH
4619PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4620 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4621 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4622 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4623 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4624 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4625
c6c2dc1d
PH
4626PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4627 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4628 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4629 string_vformat().
4630
fffffe4c
PH
4631PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4632 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4633 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4634
9a26b6b2
PH
4635PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4636 experimental DomainKeys support:
4637
4638 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4639 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4640 the control was given.
4641
4642 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4643
4aee0225
PH
4644PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4645
32d668a5
PH
4646PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4647
8187c3f3
PH
4648PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4649 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4650 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4651 db.h files).
4652
ff790e47 4653PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4654 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4655 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4656 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4657 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4658 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4659 course.
ff790e47 4660
5417f6d1
PH
4661PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4662 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4663 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4664 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4665 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4666 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4667
59cf8544
PH
4668PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4669 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4670 do -d+all out of habit.
4671
e7ad8a65
PH
4672PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4673 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4674 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4675
ade42478
PH
4676PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4677 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4678 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4679 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4680 record types that Exim uses.
4681
182ad5cf
PH
4682PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4683 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4684 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4685 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4686 non-existent file that was broken.
4687
b0d9fc80
TK
4688TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4689 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4690
4691TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4692 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4693 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4694
4695TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4696
47c7a64a
PH
4697PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4698 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4699 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4700 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4701 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4702 same time.
4703
a388bce4
SC
4704SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4705 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4706 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4707 at a slight CPU cost.
4708
4709SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4710 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4711
4712SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4713 by Marc Sherman.
4714
0793e4ed
SC
4715SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4716
c58b88df
PH
4717PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4718 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4719
e7ad8a65 4720
7982096b
PH
4721Exim version 4.51
4722-----------------
4723
1a46a8c5
PH
4724TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4725 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4726
2f079f46 4727TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4728
4729TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4730
4731PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4732 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4733
4734PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4735 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4736 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4737 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4738 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4739 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4740 file.
4741
4742PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4743 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4744 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4745 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4746 these two options.
4747
4748PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4749 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4750 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4751 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4752 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4753 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4754 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4755 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4756
4757PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4758 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4759
4760PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4761 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4762 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4763 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4764 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4765 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4766
4767PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4768 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4769 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4770 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4771
4772PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4773 Finch).
4774
4775PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4776 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4777
49c2d5ea
PH
4778PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4779 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4780 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4781 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4782 message.
49c2d5ea 4783
bf759a8b
PH
4784PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4785
83364d30
PH
4786PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4787 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4788
7999bbd7
PH
4789PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4790 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4791 to what was transported.)
4792
7dbf77c9
PH
4793TF/01 Added $received_time.
4794
74e0617f
PH
4795PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4796 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4797 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4798 spamd_address settings.
4799
2f079f46
PH
4800PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4801 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4802 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4803 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4804 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4805
8c841523
PH
4806PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4807
7766a4f0
PH
4808PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4809 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4810 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4811 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4812 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4813
8b417f2c
PH
4814PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4815 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4816
901f42cb
PH
4817PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4818 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4819 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4820 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4821 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4822 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4823 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4824 for failure.
4825
f9b9210e
PH
4826PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4827 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4828 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4829 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4830 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4831 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4832 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4833 "input=".
4834
54cdb463
PH
4835PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4836
cf00dad6
PH
4837PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4838 driver and ACL definitions.
4839
acb1b346
PH
4840PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4841 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4842
c5ddb310
PH
4843PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4844 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4845 understands it better than I do:
4846
4847 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4848 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4849
4850 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4851 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4852 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4853 => three warnings about OTP not working
4854 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4855
4856 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4857 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4858 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4859 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4860 for each call.)
4861 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4862 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4863
4864 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4865 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4866 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4867
31619da6
PH
4868PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4869 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4870 specified.
4871
bebaf0fc
PH
4872PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4873 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4874 "Linux".
4875
475fe28a
PH
4876PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4877 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4878 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4879
4880 warn !verify = sender
4881 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4882
4883 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4884 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4885
7e8bec7a
PH
4886PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4887
4888 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4889 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4890
4891 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4892 nomenclature these days.)
4893
e4a89c47
PH
4894PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4895 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4896
5ca2a9a1
PH
4897PH/30 In these circumstances:
4898 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4899 . First host does not offer TLS;
4900 . First host accepts first address;
4901 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4902 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4903 . Second host accepts second address.
4904 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4905 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4906 address.
7e8bec7a 4907
c688b954
PH
4908PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4909 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4910 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4911 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4912 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4913
fed77020
PH
4914PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4915 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4916
7fe1560f
PH
4917PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4918 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4919
ebb6e6d5
PH
4920PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4921 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4922 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4923
9c4e8f60
PH
4924PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4925 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4926 overlooked.
4927
4928PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4929
d7174846
PH
4930PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4931 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4932 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4933 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4934 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4935 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4936 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4937
4938 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4939 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4940 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4941 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4942 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4943
4944 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4945 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4946 routed further.
4947
cfe75fc3
PH
4948PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4949 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4950 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4951 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4952 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4953 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4954
be22d70e
PH
4955PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4956
0612b098
PH
4957PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4958 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4959 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4960 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4961 printable escape sequences.
4962
2e0c1448
PH
4963PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4964 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4965 body only.
4966
447d236c
PH
4967PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4968 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4969 are as follows:
4970
4971 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4972 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4973 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4974 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4975 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4976
4977 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4978 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4979 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4980
d20976dc
PH
4981PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4982
f656d135
PH
4983PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4984 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4985 play with."
4986
2e2a30b4
PH
4987PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4988 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4989 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4990 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4991 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4992 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4993 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4994 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4995 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4996 the log output.
4997
9176e9f0
PH
4998PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4999 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5000 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5001 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5002 "make".
5003
7982096b 5004
bbe902f0
PH
5005A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5006----------------------------------------
5007
5008Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5009changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5010needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5011in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5012that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5013release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5014from 4.43.
5015
5016I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
50174.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5018those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5019historical information.
5020
5021
f7b63901 5022Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
5023-----------------
5024
5fe762f6
PH
5025 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5026
139059f6 5027 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 5028 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 5029
7086e875
PH
5030 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5031 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5032 place.
5033
35af9f61
PH
5034 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5035 filter fails to execute.
5036
b668c215
PH
5037 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5038 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5039 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5040 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5041 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5042
a494b1e1
PH
5043 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5044
5045 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5046 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5047 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5048 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5049
c5fcb476
PH
5050 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5051 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5052 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5053 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5054 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5055
69358f02
PH
5056 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5057
5be20824
PH
505810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5059
eb2c0248
PH
506011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5061 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5062 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5063 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5064
2a3eea10
PH
506512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5066 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5067 sender verification.
5068
506913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5070 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5071
23c7ff99
PH
507214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5073
4deaf07d
PH
507415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5075 connection timeout.
5076
926e1192
PH
507716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5078 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5079
650edc6f
PH
508017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5081 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5082
2c7db3f5
PH
508318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5084 information about exactly what failed.
5085
3d235903
PH
508619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5087
7c7ad977
PH
508820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5089 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5090 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5091
981756db
PH
509221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5093 It is now set to "smtps".
5094
d4eb88df
PH
509522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5096 ignore_target_hosts.
5097
509823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5099 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5100 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5101 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5102 "[x.x.x.x]".
5103
7d468ab8
PH
510424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5105 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5106 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5107
510825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5109 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5110 wake it up if nothing else does.
5111
62c0818f
PH
511226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5113 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5114 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5115 end up negative.
5116
26034054
PH
511727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5118 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5119
af66f652
PH
512028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5121
90af77f4
PH
512229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5123 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5124 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5125 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5126 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5127 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5128 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5129 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5130
d8ef3577
PH
513130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5132 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5133 than one IP address.
5134
5cb8cbc6
PH
513531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5136 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5137 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5138 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5139
14702f5b
PH
514032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5141 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5142 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5143 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5144 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5145 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5146
063b1e99
PH
514733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5148 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5149 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5150 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5151
652e1b65
PH
515234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5153 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5154 respected.
5155
6f0c9a4f
PH
515635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5157 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5158 $sender_host_address.
5159
33397d19
PH
516036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5161 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5162 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5163 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5164 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5165 very small.
5166
7bb56e1f
PH
516737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5168
5169 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5170 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5171
ea3bc19b
PH
5172 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5173 just the host names, not the priorities.
5174
5175 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5176 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5177 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5178
ea3bc19b 5179 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5180 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5181
0bcb2a0e
PH
518238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5183 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5184 domain.
5185
2ac0e484
PH
518639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5187
4e1fde53
PH
518840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5189 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5190
de365ded
PH
519141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5192 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5193 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5194
f05da2e8
PH
519542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5196
d6453af2
PH
519743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5198
f7b63901
PH
519944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5200
520145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5202 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5203 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5204 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5205 because the tests only now provoked it.
5206
a444213a
PH
520746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5208 (this can affect the format of dates).
5209
0ec020ea
PH
521047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5211 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5212 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5213 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5214
b1206957
PH
521548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5216
521749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5218 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5219 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5220 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5221
26dd5a95
PH
522250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5223 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5224 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5225
343b2385
PH
522651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5227 autoreply.
5228
1c5466b9
PH
522952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5230 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5231 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5232 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5233 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5234 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5235 is going on).
5236
55ee9ee3
PH
523753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5238 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5239 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5240 the line.
5241
d38f8232
PH
524254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5243 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5244 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5245
5246 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5247 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5248 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5249 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5250 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5251 so I produce this patch..."
5252
3295e65b
PH
5253 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5254 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5255 is not defined.
5256
7102e136
PH
525755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5258 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5259 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5260 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5261 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5262
3ca0ba97
PH
526356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5264
c2bcbe20
PH
526557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5266 long debug lines gets shown.
5267
18ce445d
PH
526858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5269 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5270
1f5b4c3d
PH
527159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5272
5273 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5274 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5275 of $primary_hostname.
5276
b975ba52
PH
527760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5278 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5279 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5280 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5281 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5282 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5283 by change 4.50/55 above.
5284
5285 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5286 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5287 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5288 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5289 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5290 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5291 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5292
529361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5294 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5295 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5296 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5297
17ffcae7
PH
529862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5299 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5300
d95f9fdb
PH
530163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5302 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5303 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5304 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5305 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5306
86b8287f
PH
530764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5308 This has been fixed.
5309
60dc5e56
PH
531065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5311 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5312 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5313 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5314 the caching.)
5315
533244af
PH
531666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5317
a5a28604
PH
531867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5319 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5320 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5321 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5322
7e634d24
PH
532368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5324 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5325
3e11c26b
PH
532669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5327 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5328 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5329
6729cf78
PH
533070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5331 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5332 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5333 message there.
5334
00f00ca5
PH
533571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5336 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5337 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5338
c9bdd01c
PH
533972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5340 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5341 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5342 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5343
d43194df
PH
534473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5345 during host lookups.
5346
fe5b5d0b
PH
534774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5348 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5349
5350 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5351
76a2d7ba
PH
535275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5353 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5354 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5355 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5356 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5357 background.
5358
535976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5360 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5361
04f7d5b9
PH
536277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5363 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5364 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5365
bc60667e
PH
536678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5367
bb6e88ff
PH
536879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5369 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5370 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5371 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5372 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5373 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5374 process earlier.
5375
1e70f85b
PH
537680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5377 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5378 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5379 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5380 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5381
538281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5383 tables).
5384
4e01f9d6
PH
538582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5386
1ee1cef2
PH
538783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5388 "vacation" handling.
5389
6e2b4ccc
PH
539084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5391 OS variants using glibc.
5392
8e669ac1
PH
539385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5394
495ae4b0 5395
bbe902f0
PH
5396----------------------------------------------------
5397See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5398----------------------------------------------------
5399
5400
5401Exim version 4.44
5402-----------------
5403
5404 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5405 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5406 transport
5407
5408 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5409 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5410 place.
5411
5412 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5413 filter fails to execute.
5414
5415 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5416 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5417 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5418 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5419 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5420
5421 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5422 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5423 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5424 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5425
5426 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5427 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5428 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5429 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5430 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5431
5432 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5433
5434 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5435 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5436 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5437 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5438
5439 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5440 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5441 sender verification.
5442
544310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5444 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5445
544611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5447 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5448
544912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5450 ignore_target_hosts.
5451
545213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5453 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5454 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5455 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5456 "[x.x.x.x]".
5457
545814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5459 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5460 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5461
546215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5463 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5464 wake it up if nothing else does.
5465
546616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5467 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5468 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5469 end up negative.
5470
547117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5472 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5473
ea3a6f44 547418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5475
547619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5477 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5478 empty pattern.
5479
548020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5481 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5482 one IP address.
5483
ea3a6f44
NM
548421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5485 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5486 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5487 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5488 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5489 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5490
ea3a6f44
NM
549122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5492 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5493 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5494
549523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5496 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5497 $sender_host_address.
5498
549924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5500
ea3a6f44
NM
550125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5502 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5503 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5504
550526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5506 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5507
ea3a6f44
NM
550827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5509 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5510
ea3a6f44
NM
551128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5512 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5513 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5514 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5515
551629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5517 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5518 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5519
ea3a6f44
NM
552030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5521 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5522 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5523 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5524
ea3a6f44
NM
552531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5526 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5527 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5528
ea3a6f44
NM
552931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5530 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5531
ea3a6f44
NM
553232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5533 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5534 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5535 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5536 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5537 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5538 is going on).
bbe902f0 5539
ea3a6f44
NM
554033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5541 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5542 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5543 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5544 CAN-2005-0021
5545
ea3a6f44
NM
554634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5547 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5548 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5549 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5550 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5551 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5552 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5553
5554 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5555 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5556 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5557 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5558 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5559 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5560 CAN-2005-0021
5561
ea3a6f44
NM
556235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5563 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5564 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5565 CAN-2005-0022
5566
ea3a6f44
NM
556736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5568 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5569 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5570 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5571 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5572
ea3a6f44
NM
557337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5574 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5575 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5576 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5577 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5578
ea3a6f44
NM
557938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5580 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5581 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5582 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5583 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5584
5585
495ae4b0
PH
5586Exim version 4.43
5587-----------------
5588
5589 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5590 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5591 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5592 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5593 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5594 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5595 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5596
5597 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5598 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5599 the delivery.
5600
5601 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5602
5603 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5604
5605 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5606 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5607 to local_scan().
5608
5609 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5610 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5611 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5612 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5613 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5614
5615 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5616 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5617
5618 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5619
5620 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5621
562210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5623 header_sender only.
5624
562511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5626 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5627
562812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5629 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5630 affecting debugging statements).
5631
563213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5633
563414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5635 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5636 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5637 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5638 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5639 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5640 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5641 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5642 after the received time, and all would be well.
5643
564415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5645 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5646 condition in an expansion string.
5647
564816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5649
565017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5651 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5652 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5653 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5654 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5655 job under whatever limits there are.
5656
565718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5658
565919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5660 space).
5661
566220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5663 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5664 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5665 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5666 return path is set.
5667
566821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5669 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5670 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5671 binary data in such strings.
5672
567322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5674
567523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5676 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5677 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5678 failure, which is pointless.
5679
568024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5681
568225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5683
568426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5685 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5686 Sender: header lines.
5687
568827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5689 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5690 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5691
569228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5693 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5694 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5695 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5696 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5697 happens.
5698
569929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5700 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5701 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5702 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5703 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5704
570530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5706 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5707 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5708 1024.
5709
571031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5711 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5712
571332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5714 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5715
571633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5717
571832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5719
572033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5721
572234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5723 syntax error.
5724
572535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5726
572736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5728
572937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5730 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5731 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5732 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5733
573438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5735 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5736
5737
5738Exim version 4.42
5739-----------------
5740
5741 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5742 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5743 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5744 it was not quoted.
5745 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5746 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5747 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5748 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5749 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5750 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5751
5752 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5753 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5754 verification failure".
5755
5756 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5757 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5758 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5759 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5760
5761 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5762 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5763 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5764 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5765 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5766 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5767 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5768 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5769 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5770 treated as a timeout.
5771
5772 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5773 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5774 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5775 not set for Exim filters).
5776
5777 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5778 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5779 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5780
5781 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5782
5783 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5784 try to make them clearer.
5785
5786 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5787 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5788
5789 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5790
5791 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5792
579310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5794 only the Cygwin environment.
5795
579611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5797 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5798 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5799 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5800 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5801
580212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5803 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5804 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5805 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5806 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5807 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5808 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5809
581013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5811 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5812
581314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5814
5815 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5816 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5817 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5818
5819 To: susanne@some.where
5820
5821 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5822 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5823 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5824 of addresses in From: header lines).
5825
5826 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5827 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5828 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5829
5830 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5831 treated as non-personal.
5832
5833 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5834 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5835
583615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5837
583816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5839
584017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5841 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5842 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5843
584418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5845 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5846
584719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5848 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5849 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5850 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5851 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5852 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5853
585420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5855 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5856 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5857 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5858 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5859 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5860 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5861 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5862
5863 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5864
586521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5866 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5867
586822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5869 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5870 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5871
587223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5873 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5874
587524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5876 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5877 rather than long int.
5878
587925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5880
588126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5882
5883
5884Exim version 4.41
5885-----------------
5886
5887 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5888 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5889 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5890 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5891 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5892 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5893
5894
5895Exim version 4.40
5896-----------------
5897
5898 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5899 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5900
5901 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5902 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5903 socklen_t is defined.
5904
5905 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5906 always exist.
5907
5908 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5909 configured.
5910
5911 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5912 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5913 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5914 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5915 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5916
5917 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5918 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5919 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5920 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5921
5922 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5923 of flapping under certain conditions.
5924
5925 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5926 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5927 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5928
5929 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5930
593110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5932
593311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5934 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5935 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5936 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5937
593812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5939 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5940 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5941 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5942 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5943 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5944 preserved with the message after it was received.
5945
594613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5947 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5948 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5949 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5950 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5951 test suite worked just fine.
5952
595314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5954 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5955 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5956
595715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5958 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5959 string.
5960
596116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5962 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5963 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5964 does not fully solve it.
5965
596617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5967 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5968 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5969 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5970 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5971
597218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5973 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5974 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5975
597619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5977 string, for example:
5978
5979 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5980
5981 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5982 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5983 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5984 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5985 the routers could not see them.
5986
598720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5988 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5989
599021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5991 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5992 output).
5993
599422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5995 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5996 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5997 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5998 that needed quoting.
5999
600023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6001 was not being matched caselessly.
6002
600324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6004 backslashes.
6005
600625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6007 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6008 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6009 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6010 when use_sender is false.
6011
601226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6013
601427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6015
601628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6017
601829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6019 the configuration file.
6020
602130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6022 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6023
602431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6025
602632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6027 bytes in the message body.
6028
602933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6030 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6031 delivery.
6032
603334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6034
603535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6036
603736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6038 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6039 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6040 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6041 another IP address.
6042
6043
6044Exim version 4.34
6045-----------------
6046
6047 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6048 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6049
6050 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6051 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6052 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6053 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6054 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6055
6056 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6057 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6058
6059 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6060 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6061 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6062
6063 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6064 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6065 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6066
6067 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6068 for routers.
6069
6070 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6071 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6072 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6073 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6074 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6075 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6076 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6077
6078
6079Exim version 4.33
6080-----------------
6081
6082 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6083 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6084 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6085 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6086 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6087 default (and expected) setting.
6088
6089 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6090 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6091 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6092 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6093
6094 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6095 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6096
6097 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6098 in domain lists.
6099
6100 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6101 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6102 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6103 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6104 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6105 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6106
6107 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6108 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6109 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6110
6111 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6112 part (NOT match_host).
6113
6114 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6115
6116 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6117 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6118 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6119 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6120 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6121 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6122 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6123 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6124 the same named file.
6125
612610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6127 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6128 when Exim is built.
6129
613011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6131 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6132 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6133 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6134 a host name.
6135
613612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6137 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6138 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6139
614013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6141
614214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6143
614415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6145
614616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6147 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6148
614917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6150 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6151 before starting the TLS session.
6152
615318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6154
615519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6156 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6157
615820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6159 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6160 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6161 colon in the middle).
6162
6163
6164Exim version 4.32
6165-----------------
6166
6167 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6168 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6169 multiple configurations are in use.
6170
6171 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6172 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6173 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6174 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6175 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6176 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6177
6178 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6179 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6180
6181 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6182 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6183 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6184
6185 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6186 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6187 occurs.
6188
6189 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6190 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6191
6192 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6193
6194 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6195 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6196
6197 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6198
6199 -prval:sval
6200
6201 is equivalent to
6202
6203 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6204
6205 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6206 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6207 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6208 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6209 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6210
621110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6212 Exim's behaviour:
6213
6214 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6215 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6216 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6217 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6218 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6219 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6220
6221 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6222 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6223 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6224 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6225 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6226 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6227 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6228 string.
6229
6230 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6231 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6232 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6233 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6234 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6235
623611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6237
623812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6239 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6240 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6241
624213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6243
624414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6245 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6246 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6247 information.
6248
624915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6250 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6251
625216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6253 Three changes have been made:
6254
6255 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6256 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6257 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6258 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6259 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6260
6261 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6262 been restored.
6263
6264 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6265 the modified behaviour.
6266
6267
6268Exim version 4.31
6269-----------------
6270
6271 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6272 Larry Rosenman.
6273
6274 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6275 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6276
6277 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6278 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6279 try to track down a specific problem.
6280
6281 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6282 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6283 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6284
6285 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6286 warning.
6287
6288 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6289 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6290 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6291 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6292 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6293 some earlier ones do not.
6294
6295 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6296
6297 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6298 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6299 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6300 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6301 address literals are enabled, of course).
6302
6303 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6304
630510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6306 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6307 by a command such as
6308
6309 exim -f "" ...
6310
6311 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6312
631311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6314
631512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6316 remained set. It is now erased.
6317
631813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6319 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6320
632114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6322 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6323 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6324 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6325 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6326 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6327 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6328 appropriate error code.
6329
633015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6331 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6332 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6333 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6334 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6335 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6336
633716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6338 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6339 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6340
634117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6342 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6343 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6344 terminate the header.
6345
634618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6347 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6348 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6349
635019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6351 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6352 (4.30/29). In particular:
6353
6354 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6355 imposed.
6356
6357 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6358 to write a maildirsize file.
6359
6360 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6361 the transport, the new value overrides.
6362
6363 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6364 count.
6365
636620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6367 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6368 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6369 space or a tab.
6370
637121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6372 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6373 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6374 the fallback hosts.
6375
637622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6377 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6378 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6379
638023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6381 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6382 using a union.
6383
638424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6385 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6386 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6387
638825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6389
639026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6391
639227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6393
639428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6395 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6396 become corrupted.
6397
639829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6399 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6400 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6401 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6402 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6403 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6404 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6405 too great.
6406
640730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6408 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6409 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6410 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6411 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6412 incorrectly.
6413
641431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6415 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6416 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6417 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6418 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6419 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6420 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6421 cached value only when the same options are set.
6422
642332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6424
642533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6426 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6427 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6428 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6429 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6430
643134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6432 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6433 it is clearly obsolete.
6434
643535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6436 transport.
6437
643836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6439 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6440 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6441 times.
6442
644337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6444 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6445 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6446 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6447 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6448
644938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6450 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6451 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6452 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6453
645439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6455
6456 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6457
6458 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6459 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6460 2^31.
6461
646240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6463 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6464 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6465 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6466 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6467 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6468 $localpart_data.
6469
647041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6471 with the -f command-line option.
6472
647342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6474 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6475 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6476 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6477 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6478 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6479
648043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6481 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6482 line.
6483
648444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6485 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6486 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6487 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6488 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6489 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6490 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6491 buffer is too small.
6492
649345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6494 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6495
649646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6497 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6498 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6499 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6500 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6501 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6502 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6503 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6504 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6505
650647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6507 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6508 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6509
651048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6511 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6512 ACL").
6513
651449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6515 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6516 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6517 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6518 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6519
652050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6521 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6522 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6523 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6524 is set.
6525
652651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6527
652852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6529
653053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6531 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6532
653354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6534 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6535 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6536
653755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6538 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6539 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6540 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6541 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6542
654356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6544 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6545 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6546 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6547 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6548 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6549 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6550
655157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6552 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6553 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6554 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6555 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6556 the test of how many are available.
6557
655858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6559 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6560 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6561 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6562 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6563 new message is started.
6564
656559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6566 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6567
656860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6569 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6570
657161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6572 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6573 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6574 is no long logged.
6575
657662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6577 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6578 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6579 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6580 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6581 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6582 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6583
658463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6585 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6586 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6587 interpreted as octal.
6588
658964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6590 setting.
6591
659265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6593 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6594 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6595 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6596 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6597 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6598
659966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6600 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6601 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6602 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6603
6604 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6605 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6606 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6607 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6608
6609 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6610 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6611 is a bug fix.
6612
6613 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6614 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6615
661667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6617
661868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6619 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6620 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6621 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6622
662369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6624 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6625 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6626 supplied", which is not helpful.
6627
662870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6629 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6630 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6631
663271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6633 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6634 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6635 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6636 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6637 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6638 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6639 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6640
664172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6642 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6643 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6644 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6645 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6646
664773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6648 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6649 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6650 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6651 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6652 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6653
665474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6655 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6656 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6657
665875. Added write_rejectlog option.
6659
666076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6661 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6662 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6663 variables.
6664
666577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6666
666778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6668 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6669 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6670 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6671 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6672 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6673 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6674 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6675
667679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6677 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6678 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6679 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6680 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6681
668280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6683 Haardt.
6684
668581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6686 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6687 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6688 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6689 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6690 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6691 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6692 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6693 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6694
6695
6696Exim version 4.30
6697-----------------
6698
6699 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6700 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6701 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6702
6703 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6704 fixed.
6705
6706 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6707 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6708 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6709
6710 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6711 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6712 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6713 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6714 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6715 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6716
6717 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6718 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6719 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6720 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6721 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6722 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6723 the Exim test suite.
6724
6725 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6726 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6727 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6728 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6729
6730 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6731 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6732 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6733 specify it in this variable.
6734
6735 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6736 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6737 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6738 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6739
6740 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6741 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6742 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6743 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6744
6745 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6746 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6747 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6748 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6749 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6750
6751 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6752
675310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6754 they are logged.
6755
675611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6757 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6758 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6759 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6760 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6761
676212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6763 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6764
676513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6766 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6767 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6768 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6769 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6770
677114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6772 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6773
677415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6775 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6776 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6777
677816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6779 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6780
678117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6782 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6783
678418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6785 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6786 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6787
678819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6789 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6790
679120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6792 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6793 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6794 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6795
679621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6797
679822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6799 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6800 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6801 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6802
680323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6804
680524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6806 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6807
680825. Added .include_if_exists.
6809
681026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6811 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6812 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6813 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6814 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6815 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6816
681727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6818
681928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6820 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6821 this.
6822
682329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6824
682530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6826 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6827
6828 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6829 550 Sender verify failed
6830
6831 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6832 the final line of the response.
6833
683431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6835 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6836 all other user lookups.
6837
683832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6839 delivery time.
6840
684133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6842 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6843 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6844 result into an int without checking.
6845
684634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6847 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6848 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6849
685035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6851 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6852 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6853 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6854
685536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6856 correctly.
6857
685837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6859 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6860
686138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6862 to the empty sender.
6863
686439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6865 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6866 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6867 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6868 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6869 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6870 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6871 panic log.
6872
687340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6874 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6875 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6876 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6877 used.
6878
687941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6880 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6881
688242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6883 timestamps.
6884
688543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6886 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6887
688844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6889
689045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6891 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6892 logs.
6893
689446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6895 as soon as it is encountered.
6896
689747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6898
689948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6900 rewritten to "<>".
6901
690249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6903 recognizes a tab character.
6904
690550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6906 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6907 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6908 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6909
691051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6911
691252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6913 crash.
6914
691553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6916
691754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6918
691955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6920 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6921 2822.
6922
692356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6924 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6925 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6926 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6927 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6928
692957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6930 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6931
693258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6933 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6934 list (.included file names were always shown).
6935
693659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6937 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6938 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6939 root at that time.
6940
694160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6942 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6943
694461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6945
694662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6947
694863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6949
695064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6951 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6952 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6953 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6954 failures to open the logs.
6955
695665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6957 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6958 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6959 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6960 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6961 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6962 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6963
6964
6965Exim version 4.24
6966-----------------
6967
6968 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6969 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6970 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6971 change 4.23/1.
6972
6973 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6974 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6975 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6976
6977 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6978 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6979 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6980
6981 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6982 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6983 causing some misleading effects.
6984
6985 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6986 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6987 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6988
6989 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6990 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6991 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6992 queue-runner function directly.
6993
6994
6995Exim version 4.23
6996-----------------
6997
6998 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6999 HEADERS_CHARSET.
7000
7001 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7002 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7003 was always written to the default place.
7004
7005 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7006 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7007 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7008
7009 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7010
7011 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7012
7013 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7014 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7015 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7016
7017 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7018 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7019 must start.
7020
7021 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7022 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7023 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7024
7025 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7026 command line option is disabled.
7027
7028 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7029 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7030
7031 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7032
7033 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7034
7035 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7036 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7037
703810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7039
704011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7041 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7042 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7043 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7044 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7045 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7046
704712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7048 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7049 timeout.
7050
705113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7052 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7053
705414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7055 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7056
705715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7058 received was valid base64.
7059
706016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7061 name of the variable that was being set.
7062
706317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7064
706518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7066 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7067 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7068 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7069 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7070 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7071
707219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7073
707420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7075 nor realm was specified.
7076
707721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7078 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7079 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7080 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7081
708222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7083 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7084 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7085
708623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7087 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7088 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7089
709024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7091 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7092 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7093 some systems use these upper case variants.
7094
709525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7096 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7097 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7098 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7099
710026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7101
710227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7103 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7104
710528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7106 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7107 expansion variable.
7108
710929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7110
711130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7112 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7113 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7114 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7115
711631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7117 using it.
7118
711932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7120 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7121 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7122
712333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7124 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7125
712634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7127 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7128 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7129 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7130
713135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7132 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7133 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7134
713536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7136
713737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7138 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7139 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7140 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7141 aborted.
7142
714338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7144 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7145 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7146
714739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7148
714940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7150 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7151
715241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7153 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7154
715542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7156 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7157 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7158 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7159 when emails are that large.
7160
7161
7162
7163Exim version 4.22
7164-----------------
7165
7166 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7167 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7168
7169 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7170 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7171 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7172
7173 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7174 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7175 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7176
7177 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7178 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7179 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7180 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7181 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7182
7183 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7184 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7185 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7186 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7187 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7188 ever.
7189
7190 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7191 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7192 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7193 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7194 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7195 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7196 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7197 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7198 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7199 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7200 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7201 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7202 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7203 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7204
7205 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7206 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7207 parameterised it.
7208
7209 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7210 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7211 error should be diagnosed.
7212
7213 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7214 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7215 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7216 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7217 appeared instead of "NULL".
7218
721910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7220 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7221 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7222 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7223 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7224 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7225 proceeds).
7226
7227 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7228 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7229 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7230
7231
7232Exim version 4.21
7233-----------------
7234
7235 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7236 or receiver verification errors.
7237
7238 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7239 name.
7240
7241 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7242 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7243 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7244 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7245
7246 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7247 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7248 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7249 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7250 shouldn't happen again.
7251
7252 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7253 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7254 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7255
7256 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7257 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7258
7259 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7260
7261 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7262 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7263
7264 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7265 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7266 RFC.
7267
726810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7269 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7270 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7271
727211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7273 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7274 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7275 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7276
727712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7278 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7279 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7280 to define what should happen).
7281
728213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7283 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7284 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7285
728614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7287
728815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7289
729016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7291 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7292
4c04137d 729317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7294 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7295 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7296 structure in all cases.
7297
7298 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7299 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7300 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7301 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7302
730318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7304 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7305 domain name.
7306
730719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7308 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7309
731020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7311 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7312
731321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7314 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7315 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7316
731722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7318 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7319 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7320
732123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7322 the book and for uniformity.
7323
732424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7325
732625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7327 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7328 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7329 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7330 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7331 non-existent command as the problem.
7332
733326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7334 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7335 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7336
733727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7338
733928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7340 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7341 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7342
734329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7344 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7345 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7346 timestamps using strftime().
7347
734830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7349 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7350
735132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7352 transport-time rewrites.
7353
735433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7355 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7356 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7357 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7358
735934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7360 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7361
736235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7363 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7364 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7365 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7366 comma and a space.
7367
736836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7369 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7370 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7371 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7372 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7373 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7374 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7375
737637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7377 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7378 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7379 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7380 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7381
738238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7383 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7384 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7385 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7386 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7387 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7388 remaining text gets split now.
7389
739039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7391 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7392 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7393 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7394
739540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7396 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7397 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7398 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7399 $return_path.
7400
740141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7402 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7403 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7404 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7405 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7406 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7407 passed through if needed.
7408
740942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7410 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7411 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7412 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7413 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7414 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7415
741643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7417 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7418 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7419 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7420 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7421
742244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7423 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7424 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7425 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7426 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7427
742845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7429 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7430 noticed.
7431
743246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7433 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7434 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7435 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7436 mayhem of various kinds.
7437
743847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7439 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7440 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7441 the right test for positive values.
7442
744348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7444 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7445 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7446 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7447 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7448 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7449 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7450 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7451 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7452 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7453 envelope.
7454
745549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7456 module.
7457
745850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7459 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7460 forbidding it.
7461
746251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7463 the existing equality matching.
7464
746552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7466 dealing with inode numbers.
7467
746853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7469 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7470 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7471
747254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7473 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7474 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7475 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7476 local_scan().
7477
747855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7479 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7480 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7481 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7482 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7483 relay addresses has also been removed.
7484
748556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7486
748757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7488 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7489 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7490
749158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7492 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7493 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7494 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7495 processing applies to CR:
7496
7497 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7498 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7499
7500 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7501 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7502 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7503 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7504
750559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7506 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7507 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7508
750960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7510 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7511 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7512 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7513 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7514 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7515 arisen.
7516
751761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7518 program routers.
7519
752062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7521 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7522 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7523 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7524 adds:
7525
7526 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7527
7528 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7529
7530 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7531
753263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7533 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7534 not considered personal.
7535
753664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7537
753865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7539
754066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7541
754267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7543 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7544 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7545 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7546 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7547 header lines, and spool format errors.
7548
754968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7550 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7551 for more flexibility.
7552
755369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7554 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7555 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7556
755770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7558 Sabourenkov.
7559
756071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7561 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7562 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7563 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7564 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7565 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7566 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7567 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7568 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7569
757072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7571 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7572 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7573 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7574 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7575 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7576 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7577
757873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7579 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7580 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7581
758274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7583 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7584 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7585 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7586 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7587 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7588 instead of killing the process with assert().
7589
759075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7591 than Unicode encoding.
7592
759376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7594 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7595 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7596 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7597
759877. Added process_log_path.
7599
760078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7601 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7602
760379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7604 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7605
760680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7607 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7608 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7609
761081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7611 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7612 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7613 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7614 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7615 were applied:
7616
7617 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7618 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7619 as invalid.
7620
762182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7622 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7623 they will be used during message reception.
7624
7625
7626Exim version 4.20
7627-----------------
7628
7629The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7630
7631****