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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
9
10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
28 were a direct connection from the outside internet.
29
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30JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
31
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32TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
33 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
34
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35PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
36 not dns_use_dnssec.
37
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38JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
39
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40TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
41 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
42 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
43
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2c422e6f 45Exim version 4.82
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47
48PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
49
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50PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
51 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
52
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53PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
54 by GnuTLS.
55
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56PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
57 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
58 routines.
59
13363eba 60PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 61
66645890 62PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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63 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
64 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
65 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
66 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 67
a3fb9793 68PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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69 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
70 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
71 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 72 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 73 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 74
d27f98fe 75TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 76
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77TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
78
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79TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
80 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
81
ae0e32ee 82TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 83 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 84 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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86TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 87
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88TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
89
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90TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
91 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
92
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93JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
94
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95JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
96
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97PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
98
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99NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
100 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 101
585121e2 102JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 103
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104PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
105 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
106 function.
a5f239e4 107
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108PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
109 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
110
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111JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
112 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
113 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 114
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115JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
116
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117JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
118
ea722490 119JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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120 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
121
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122JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
123 Bugzilla 884.
124
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125JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
126 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
127
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128JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
129 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
130
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131PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
132 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 133 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 134
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135JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
136 authenticators.
137
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138JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
139 for control.
140
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141PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
142
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143PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
144 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
145 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
146 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
147
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148TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
149
150 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
151 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
152 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
153 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
154 the retry rules.
155
156 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
157 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
158 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
159
160 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
161 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
162 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
163 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
164
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165 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
166 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
167 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
168 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
169 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
170 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
171 delivery, as in LMTP.
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173 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
174 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
175
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176TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
177
178 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
179
180 Resent-From: f
181
182 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
183 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
184 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
185 username as equal to the username.
186
187 This change corrects that bug.
188
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189GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
190 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
191 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
192
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193TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
194
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195PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
196 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
197 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
198 NULL dereference and crash.
199
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200JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
201
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202PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
203 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
204 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
205
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206SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
207
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208JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
209 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
210 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
211 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
212 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
213 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
214 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
215 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
216 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
217 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
218 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
219
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220PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
221 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
222
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223PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
224 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
225 Bugzilla 880.
226
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227PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
228 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
229 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
230 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
231 an empty string is now equivalent.
232
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233PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
234 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
235 not performing validation itself.
236
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237PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
238 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
239
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240JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
241 Bugzilla 321, 823.
242
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243TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
244
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245PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
246 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
247 other false fix of the same issue.
248 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
249 Bugzilla 1363.
250
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251PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
252 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
253
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254PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
255 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
256 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
257
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258PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
259 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
260 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
261
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262TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
263
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264JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
265
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266TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
267 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
268
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269TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
270 Alexander Miroch.
271
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272TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
273 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
274 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
275 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
276 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 277
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278TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
279 the src/util/ subdirectory.
280
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281TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
282 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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283 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
284
285TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
286 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
287 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
288 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
289
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290TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
291
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292TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
293 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
294 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 295
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296TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
297
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298TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
299 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
300 interaction.
301
302TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
303 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
304
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305TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
306 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
307
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311
312PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
313 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 314 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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ea722490 316
b1770b6e 317Exim version 4.80
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319
320PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
321 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
322 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
323
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324NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
325
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326NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
327 improved.
328
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329NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
330
c1e794ba 331PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 332
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333PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
334
335PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
336 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
337
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338PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
339 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
340
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341PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
342 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
343
f1e05cc7 344PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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345 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
346 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 347
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348PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
349
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350PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
351 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
352
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353PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
354
c45dd180 355PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 356
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357PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
358 non-compliant senders.
359 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
360
eae0036b 361NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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362 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
363 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
364
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365PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
366 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
367 in spool file corruption.
368
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369PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
370 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
371 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
372 "Got SSL error 2".
373
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374TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
375 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
376 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
377
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378JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
379 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
380
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381JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
382
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383PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
384 diagnostics.
385 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
386
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387PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
388 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
389 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
390
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391PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
392 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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393 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
394 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 395
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396PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
397 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
398
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399PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
400 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
401 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
402 resolver implementation change.
403
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404PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
405 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
406
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407PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
408
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409PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
410
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411PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
412 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
413
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414PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
415 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
416
9e45c72b 417JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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418 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
419
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420PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
421 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
422 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
423 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 424 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 425
53947857 426PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 427
eae0036b 428PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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429 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
430 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 431
9e45c72b 432JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 433
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434PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
435 read-only, out of scope).
436 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
437
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438PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
439 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
440 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
441 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
442
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443PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
444
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445PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
446 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
447 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
448 real issues in debug logging.
449
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450PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
451 assignment on my part. Fixed.
452
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453PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
454 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
455 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
456
457PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
458 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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459 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
460 problems.
3375e053 461
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462PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
463 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
464
57eb9e91 465PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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466 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
467 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
468 needs to override this, it can.
469
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470PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
471 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
472 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
473
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474PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
475 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
476 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
477 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
478
3ecab157 479PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 480
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482Exim version 4.77
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484
485PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
486 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
487
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488TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
489
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490TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
491 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 492
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493TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
494 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
495
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496TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
497 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
498 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
499
500 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
501 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
502 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
503 not safe for signals.
504
505 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
506 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
507 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
508 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
509 exiwhat.
510
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511TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
512
513 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
514 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
515 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
516 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
517 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
518
519 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
520 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
521 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
522 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
523 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
524 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
525
526 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
527 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
528 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
529 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
530
531 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
532 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
533 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
534 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
535
536 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
537 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
538 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
539 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
540 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
541 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
542 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
543 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
544 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
545
546 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
547 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
548 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
549 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
550
551 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
552 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
553 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
554 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
555 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
556 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
557 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
558 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
559 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
560 details in the main documentation.
561
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562TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
563
792e8a19
TF
564TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
565
5901f0ab
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566TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
567 repository when doing development or release builds.
568
7f2a2a43
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569PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
570 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 571
061b7ebd
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572PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
573 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
574 Bugzilla 97.
575
e12f8c32
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576PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
577
9e949f00 578PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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579 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
580
581PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
582 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 583
555ae6af 584PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
585 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
586
587PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
588 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 589
6f7fe114
PP
590PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
591 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
592
c566dd90
PP
593PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
594 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
595 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
596 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 597
d6cc7c78 598PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
599 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
600 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
601
0d0e4455
PP
602PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
603
3399bb60 604PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
605
606PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
607 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
608
0ca0cf52 609
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610Exim version 4.76
611-----------------
612
613PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
614
754a0503
PP
615PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
616 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
617
c0c7b2da
PP
618PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
619
e97d1f08
PP
620PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
621
084c1d8c
PP
622PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
623 Bugzilla 1098.
624
4e7ee012
PP
625PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
626 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 627
c8d52a00
PP
628TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
629 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
630
54e7ce4a
PP
631PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
632 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
633
5ee6f336
PP
634PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
635 Bugzilla 1104.
636
c8d52a00 637TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
638 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
639
640TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
641 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
642 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
643 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
644
645PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
646 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 647
10906672 648
aa097c4c
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649Exim version 4.75
650-----------------
651
4c9ef03a 652NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
653 Bugzilla 1073
654
7f3d9eff
TF
655TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
656 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
657 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
658
159f52d2
TF
659TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
660 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
661
0cc9542a
PP
662PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
663 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
664 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
665
f7274286
PP
666PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
667 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
668
7b797365
PP
669PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
670 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
671
caacae52
NM
672NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
673 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
674
09dcaba9
NM
675NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
676 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
677
bc19a55b
PP
678PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
679 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 680
bd4c9759
NM
681NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
682 Fixes bug 943.
683
b72aab72
PP
684PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
685 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
686
2fe76745
PP
687PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
688 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
689
76aa570c
PP
690PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
691 SQL string expansion failure details.
692 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
693
f1e5fef5
PP
694PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
695 Patch from Simon Arlott.
696
4d805ee9
PP
697PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
698 extern declarations in function scope.
699 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
700
cd59ab18
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701PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
702 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
703 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
704 a kernel bug).
705
332f5cf3
PP
706PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
707 Patch from Mark Zealey.
708
29cfeb94
PP
709PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
710 Patch from Mark Zealey.
711
660242ad
PP
712PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
713 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
714
bc4bc4c5
PP
715PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
716 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
717
2e64baa9
NM
718NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
719 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
720 Dennis Davis.
721
bddd7526
PP
722PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
723
6bac1a9a
PP
724PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
725
552193f0
NM
726NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
727 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 728
1b587e48
TF
729TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
730 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
731
aa097c4c 732
8c07b69f
TF
733Exim version 4.74
734-----------------
735
736TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
737 consequences so log it to the panic log.
738
c0ea85ab
TF
739TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
740 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
741
0761d44e
TF
742TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
743
0a349494
PP
744DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
745 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
746 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
747
748PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
749 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
750 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
751
fea24b2e
PP
752PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
753 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
754 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
755 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
756
6545de78
PP
757PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
758 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
759 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
760 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
761
1670ef10
PP
762PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
763 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
764 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
765 arbitrary files.
766
c0886197
PP
767PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
768 (Wolfgang Breyha)
769
b7487bce
PP
770PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
771 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
772 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
773 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
774 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
775
8c07b69f 776
97fd1e48 777Exim version 4.73
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PP
779
780PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
781 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
782 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
783
6901c596
PP
784PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
785 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
786
a8c8d6b5
JJ
787JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
788
77bb000f
PP
789PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
790
a29e5231
PP
791PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
792
ec5a0394 793PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 794
55c75993
PP
795PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
796
453a6645 797PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
798 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
799 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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800 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
801
8544e77a
PP
802PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
803 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
804 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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805 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
806 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 807
83e029d5
PP
808PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
809
ed7f7860
PP
810PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
811
7d9f747b
PP
812PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
813
4b2241d2
PP
814PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
815
10385c15
PP
816PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
817
dbc4b90d
PP
818PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
819
532be449
PP
820PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
821
6a8de854 822PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
823 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
824 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 825
5dc43717
JJ
826JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
827
828JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
829 "exim" to be used
55c75993 830
3346ab01
PP
831PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
832 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
833
491fab4c
PP
834PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
835 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
836 Notification from John Horne.
837
13eb9497
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838PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
839 compatible.
840
841PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
842 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
843 it normally works.
844
7f36d675
DW
845DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
846 access.
847
c1d94452
DW
848DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
849 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
850 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
851
e2f5dc15
DW
852DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
853 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
854 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
855 configuration file.
856
cd25e41d
DW
857DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
858 option (effectively making it always true).
859
261dc43e
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860DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
861 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
862
fa32850b
DW
863DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
864 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
865
79d4bc3d
PP
866PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
867 run-time user, instead of root.
868
43236f35 869PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
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870 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
871
fb08281f
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872DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
873 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
874 arguments.
3346ab01 875
74935b98
DW
876DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
877 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
878 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
879
90b6341f
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880DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
881
57730b52
ML
882NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
883
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465e92cf
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885Exim version 4.72
886-----------------
887
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888JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
889 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
890 typos
465e92cf 891
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892JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
893 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
894 (Finput)
edae0343 895
9bd3e22c
NM
896NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
897 Patch from Alain Williams
898
bb576ff7
NM
899NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
900
5a1a5845
NM
901NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
902 Patch from Andreas Metzler
903
981a9fad
NM
904NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
905 Patch from Kirill Miazine
906
7fc497ee
NM
907NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
908
1a41defa
JJ
909JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
910
a466095c 911NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 912 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 913
94a6bd0b
NM
914TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
915
916TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
917
918MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
919 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
920 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
921
c1b141a8
NM
922NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
923 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 924
b26eacf1 925NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
926 Patch by Simon Arlott
927
179c5980 928PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 929 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 930
9bd3e22c 931
7c6d71af
NM
932Exim version 4.71
933-----------------
934
7d9f747b 935TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 936
f013fb92
NM
937NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
938
0eb8eedd
NM
939NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
940
663ee6d9
NM
941NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
942
177ebd9b
NM
943NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
944
7c6d71af 945
210f147e
NM
946Exim version 4.70
947-----------------
948
cdd3bb85 949TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 950 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
951
952TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
953 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 954 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
955
956TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
957 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 958 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
959
960TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
961 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
962
210f147e
NM
963NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
964 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
965 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
966 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
967
deafd5b3
NM
968NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
969 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 970 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 971
089793a4
TF
972TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
973
5f16ca82
TF
974TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
975
dae9d94e 976NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 977 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 978
7d9f747b 979NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 980
06864c44
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981TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
982 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
983 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
984 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
985
65a7d8c3 986NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 987 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 988
23510047 989TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 990
7d9f747b 991NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 992
7d8eec3a 993NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 994 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 995
89dec7b6
TF
996TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
997 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 998
a99de90c
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999TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1000 that they are available at delivery time.
1001
e2803e40
TF
1002TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1003
7199e1ee
TF
1004TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1005 incoming_port log selectors.
1006
e276e04b
TF
1007TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1008 setting expands to an empty string.
1009
ce552449 1010NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1011 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1012
e765a0f1 1013NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1014 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1015
4f054c63 1016NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1017 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1018
7d9f747b
PP
1019NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1020 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1021
7d9f747b
PP
1022NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1023 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1024
b52bc06e 1025NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1026 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1027
447de4b0
NM
1028NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1029
4c69d561 1030NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1031 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1032
d5c39246 1033NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1034 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1035
0b23848a
TK
1036TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1037
8f3414a1 1038NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1039 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1040
fb6f955d
NM
1041NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1042
1043NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1044
7d9f747b
PP
1045NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1046 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1047
7d9f747b
PP
1048NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1049 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1050
7d9f747b
PP
1051NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1052 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1053
7d9f747b
PP
1054NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1055 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1056
7d9f747b
PP
1057NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1058 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1059
7d9f747b
PP
1060NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1061 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1062
7d9f747b
PP
1063NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1064 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1065
7d9f747b 1066NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1067 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1068
7d9f747b 1069NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1070
7d9f747b
PP
1071NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1072 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1073
7d9f747b 1074NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1075
7d9f747b 1076NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1077
7d9f747b 1078NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1079
7d9f747b 1080NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1081
17792b53 1082NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1083 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1084
7d9f747b
PP
1085NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1086 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1087
91576cec 1088NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1089 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1090
7d9f747b
PP
1091NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1092 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1093
7d9f747b 1094NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1095
7d9f747b 1096NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1097
7d9f747b 1098NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1099
7d9f747b 1100NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1101
deafd5b3 1102
47db1125
NM
1103Exim version 4.69
1104-----------------
1105
4b3504d0
TK
1106TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1107 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1108 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1109
1110 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1111 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1112 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1113 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1114 build errors in sieve.c.
1115
81ea09ca
NM
1116NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1117 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1118 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1119
f13cddcb
SC
1120SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1121
7d9f747b 1122NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1123
7d9f747b 1124NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1125
7d9f747b 1126NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1127
1128
eb4c0de6
PH
1129Exim version 4.68
1130-----------------
1131
1132PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1133
6a3bceb1
PH
1134PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1135 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1136 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1137 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1138 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1139 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1140 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1141 for iplsearch lookups.
1142
1143 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1144 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1145 previously such lookups could never work.
1146
1147 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1148 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1149 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1150
2e30fa9d
TK
1151TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1152 version.
1153
0806a9c5
MH
1154MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1155 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1156 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1157 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1158 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1159 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1160
ae276964
TK
1161TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1162 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1163
0f2cbd1b
MH
1164MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1165 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1166 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1167 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1168 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1169 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1170
2b85bce7
PH
1171PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1172 local_scan API.
1173
93655c46
PH
1174PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1175
6c512171
PH
1176PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1177 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1178 encrypted.
1179
1180PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1181 by clients under certain conditions.
1182
aa6dc513
PH
1183PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1184 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1185
a96603a0
PH
1186PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1187
8f240103
PH
1188PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1189 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1190
1191PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1192
d677b2f2
PH
1193PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1194
d52120f2
PH
1195PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1196
64f2600a
PH
1197PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1198 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1199
8669f003
PH
1200PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1201
a4dc33a8
PH
1202PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1203 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1204
d6a60c0f
PH
1205PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1206
8f128379
PH
1207PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1208
8932dffe
PH
1209PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1210 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1211 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1212 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1213
ddea74fa 1214PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1215 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1216 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1217
ddea74fa 1218PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1219 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1220
ddea74fa
PH
1221PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1222
ce9f225c
PH
1223PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1224
19897d52
PH
1225PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1226
bc64a74d
PH
1227PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1228 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1229 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1230
eb4c0de6 1231
b4ed4da0
PH
1232Exim version 4.67
1233-----------------
1234
22ad45c9
MH
1235MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1236 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1237 Jan Srzednicki.
1238
b4ed4da0
PH
1239PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1240 issue a MAIL command.
1241
431b7361
PH
1242PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1243
1244 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1245
1246 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1247 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1248 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1249 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1250 item. This has been fixed.
1251
1252PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1253 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1254
83da1223
PH
1255PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1256 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1257
54fc8428
PH
1258PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1259 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1260 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1261
34c5e8dd
SC
1262SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1263
bbe15da8
PH
1264PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1265 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1266 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1267 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1268 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1269
0e8a9471
MH
1270MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1271 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1272 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1273
f0872424
PH
1274PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1275 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1276 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1277 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1278
b01dd148
PH
1279PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1280
6bf342e1
PH
1281PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1282
273f34d0
PH
1283PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1284 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1285 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1286 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1287 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1288
cf8b11a5
PH
1289PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1290
41c7c167
PH
1291PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1292 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1293 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1294 values).
1295
9c57cbc0
PH
1296PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1297
f3f065bb
PH
1298PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1299
047bdd8c
PH
1300PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1301
0ce9abe6
PH
1302PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1303
0e22dfd1
PH
1304PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1305
4c590bd1
PH
1306PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1307 no_callout_flush is set.
1308
09945f1e
PH
1309PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1310 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1311 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1312 fixed.
1313
c51b8e75
PH
1314PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1315
e28326d8
PH
1316PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1317 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1318 other ACL rejections are.
1319
75b1493f
PH
1320PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1321 with slight modification.
1322
7c5214ec
PH
1323PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1324 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1325
4311097e
PH
1326PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1327 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1328 connection.
1329
29f89cad
PH
1330PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1331 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1332
5e687460
SC
1333SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1334
c3611384
PH
1335PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1336 expansion side effects.
1337
5a11a7b4
PH
1338PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1339 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1340 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1341 be the same.
1342
0e20aff9
MH
1343MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1344 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1345 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1346
ca86f471
PH
1347PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1348 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1349 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1350 were accidentally chopped off.
1351
a14e5636
PH
1352PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1353 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1354 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1355 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1356 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1357 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1358 pipelining has not been advertised.
1359
ec95d1a6
PH
1360PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1361
42855d71
PH
1362PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1363 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1364 This has been fixed.
1365
57c2c631
PH
1366PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1367 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1368 reported on Solaris.
1369
58c01c94
PH
1370PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1371 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1372 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1373 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1374 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1375 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1376 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1377
dee5a20a
PH
1378PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1379 cpus.
1380
d2ee6114
PH
1381PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1382
b2d5182b
PH
1383PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1384
79749a79
PH
1385PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1386 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1387 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1388 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1389 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1390 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1391
c456d9bb
PH
1392PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1393 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1394 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1395 host_all_ignored option.
1396
cd9868ec
PH
1397PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1398 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1399 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1400 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1401 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1402 is what is supposed to happen).
1403
ebeaf996
PH
1404PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1405 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1406 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1407 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1408 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1409 uses the Exim user.
1410
2679d413
PH
1411PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1412 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1413 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1414 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1415 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1416 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1417 users.
1418
84024b72
PH
1419PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1420
8005d38e
SC
1421SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1422 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1423 (Jez Hancock).
1424 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1425 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1426
3298c6c6
SC
1427SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1428
a43a27c5
PH
1429PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1430
58eb016e 1431PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1432 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1433 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1434 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1435 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1436 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1437 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1438 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1439 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1440 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1441 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1442
b43a74ea
PH
1443PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1444 advertised in response to EHLO.
1445
b4ed4da0 1446
5dd1517f
PH
1447Exim version 4.66
1448-----------------
1449
1450PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1451 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1452
1453 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1454 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1455
1456 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1457 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1458 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1459
1460 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1461 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1462 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1463 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1464 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1465
1466
93cfa765
TK
1467Exim version 4.65
1468-----------------
1469
1470TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1471 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1472 versions. (#438)
1473
d6066548
MH
1474MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1475 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1476 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1477
4362ff0d
PH
1478PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1479 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1480 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1481 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1482 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1483 rather than extend the field.
1484
93cfa765 1485
944e9e9c
TF
1486Exim version 4.64
1487-----------------
aa41d2de 1488
21d74bd9
TK
1489TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1490 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1491 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1492 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1493 these files.
1494
1495TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1496 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1497 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1498
1499TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1500 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1501 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
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1502
1503TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1504 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1505 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1506 in the field name.
1507
2b1c6e3a
PH
1508PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1509 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1510 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1511 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1512 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1513 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1514 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1515 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1516 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1517 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1518 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1519
1f872c80
PH
1520PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1521 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1522
1523PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1524 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1525 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1526 ignores EPIPE as well.
1527
d203e649
PH
1528PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1529 (quoted-printable decoding).
1530
cc2ed8f7 1531PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1532 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1533
ddfcd446
PH
1534PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1535
d45b1de8
PH
1536PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1537
1538PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1539
38a0a95f 1540PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1541 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1542
a2405d83
JJ
1543JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1544 in 4.64-PH/09.
1545
1546JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1547 miscellaneous code fixes
1548
6ea85e9a
PH
1549PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1550 rejections.
1551
26da7e20
PH
1552PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1553 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1554 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1555 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1556 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1557 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1558 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1559 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1560
14aa5a05 1561PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1562 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1563 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1564 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1565 function.
1566 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1567 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1568 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1569 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1570 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1571 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1572 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1573 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1574 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1575
ff75a1f7
PH
1576PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1577 decoding.
1578
e6f6568e
PH
1579PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1580 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1581 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1582 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1583 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1584 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1585 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1586 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1587
d6f6e0dc
PH
1588PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1589 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1590 list.
1591
322050c2
PH
1592PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1593 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1594 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1595 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1596 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1597 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1598 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1599 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1600 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1601 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1602 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1603 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1604 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1605
08955dd3
PH
1606PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1607 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1608 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1609 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1610 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1611 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1612 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1613
1eccaa59
PH
1614PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1615 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1616 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1617 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1618 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1619 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1620 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1621 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1622 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1623 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1624
602e59e5
PH
1625PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1626 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1627 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1628 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1629 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1630
411ef850
PH
1631PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1632 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1633 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1634 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1635 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1636 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1637 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1638
7befa435
PH
1639PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1640 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1641 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1642 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1643 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1644 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1645 been verified.
1646
48da4259 1647PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1648 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1649 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1650 and authorization.)
1651
48da4259
PH
1652PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1653 if any retry times were supplied.
1654
d1d5595c
PH
1655PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1656 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1657 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1658
0ef732d9
PH
1659PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1660
328895cc
PH
1661PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1662
fd700877
PH
1663PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1664 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1665 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1666 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1667 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1668 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1669
8dce1a6f
PH
1670PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1671 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1672
17af4a17
PH
1673PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1674 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1675 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1676
1677PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1678 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1679 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1680 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1681 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1682 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1683 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1684 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1685 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1686
1687 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1688 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1689 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1690 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1691 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1692 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1693 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1694 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1695 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1696
1697 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1698 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1699 hammering the server.
1700
c1114884
PH
1701PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1702 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1703
7a0743eb
PH
1704PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1705
0d85fa3f
PH
1706PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1707 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1708 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1709
1bf43b78
PH
1710PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1711 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1712 one case where this was not true.
1713
520de300
PH
1714PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1715 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1716 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1717 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1718 fails.
1719
48c7f9e2
PH
1720PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1721 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1722 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1723 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1724 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1725 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1726 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1727 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1728 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1729 smtp transport.
1730
99ea1c86
PH
1731PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1732 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1733 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1734 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1735
a2042e78
PH
1736PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1737 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1738
4fbcfc2e
PH
1739PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1740 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1741 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1742
aa41d2de
PH
1743PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1744
af561417
PH
1745PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1746
3cc66b45
PH
1747PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1748
194cc0e4
PH
1749PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1750 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1751 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1752 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1753
a401ddaa
PH
1754PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1755 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1756
4e88a19f
PH
1757PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1758 be meaningful with "accept".
1759
d7d7b289
SC
1760SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1761 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1762
1763SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1764 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1765 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1766
1767SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1768 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1769 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1770 there is data to show.
1771 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1772
1773SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1774 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1775 as well as the number of messages.
1776
1777SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1778 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1779 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1780
1781SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1782 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1783 have a flag are now skipped.
1784
1785SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1786 Added the -emptyok flag.
1787
1788SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1789 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1790
0ea2a468
JJ
1791JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1792 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1793 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1794
1795JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1796 match 4.64-PH/13
1797
1798JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1799 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1800
1801JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1802
1803JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1804 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1805
8a10f5a4
PH
1806PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1807
30e18802
PH
1808PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1809 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1810 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1811 contravention of the specifications.
1812
55728a4f
PH
1813PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1814 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1815 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1816
d7837193
PH
1817PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1818 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1819 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1820
87054a31
PH
1821PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1822
ea2c01d2
MH
1823MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1824 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1825 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1826 some point in the past.
1827
e4fa6968
PH
1828PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1829 transport during callout processing was broken.
1830
56f5d9bd
PH
1831PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1832 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1833
922e1c28
PH
1834PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1835 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1836
21eb6e72
PH
1837PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1838 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1839
a0540757
PH
1840PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1841
944e9e9c 1842
478be7b0
SC
1843Exim version 4.63
1844-----------------
1845
1846SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1847 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1848
1849SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1850 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1851 there is data to show.
1852 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1853
1854SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1855 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1856
2b965a65
TF
1857TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1858 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1859
45b91596
PH
1860TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1861 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1862
c59f5781
TF
1863TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1864 submissions from trusted users.
1865
90fc3069
TF
1866TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1867 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1868
6083aca0
TF
1869TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1870 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1871 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1872 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1873 there is now a framework to start from.
1874
765b530f
PH
1875PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1876 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1877 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1878
4e167a8c
PH
1879PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1880
4608d683
PH
1881PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1882
b8dc3e4a
PH
1883PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1884
5418e93b
PH
1885PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1886 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1887 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1888
b4a9bda2
PH
1889PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1890 libradius.
1891
45b91596
PH
1892PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1893 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1894 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1895
5547e2c5
PH
1896PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1897 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1898 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1899 its arguments.
1900
dbcef0ea
PH
1901PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1902 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1903 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1904 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1905 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1906
25257489
PH
1907PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1908 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1909
c816d124
PH
1910PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1911
a9ccd69a
PH
1912PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1913 operations in malware.c.
1914
75fa1910
PH
1915PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1916 signatures.
1917
a7d7aa58
PH
1918PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1919 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1920 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1921 all.
1922
42119b09
PH
1923PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1924 statements to "add_header".
1925
41609df5
PH
1926PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1927 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1928
a5bd321b
PH
1929PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1930 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1931 latter.
1932
e85a7ad5 1933PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1934 so that it is now:
1935
e85a7ad5
PH
1936 ${if or { \
1937 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1938 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1939 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1940 }{no}{yes}}
1941
e85a7ad5
PH
1942 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1943 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1944
d8fe1c03
PH
1945PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1946 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1947
16282d2b
PH
1948PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1949 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1950 any possible encoding problems.
1951
35d40a98
PH
1952PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1953 but not after initializing Perl.
1954
034d99ab
PH
1955PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1956 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1957 apparently, which is not desirable.
1958
6ec97b1b
PH
1959PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1960 queries.
1961
e22ca4ac
JJ
1962JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1963 --not options
1964
1965JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1966
33d73e3b
PH
1967PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1968 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1969 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1970 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1971
9ecb03f3
PH
1972PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1973 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1974 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1975
084efe8d
PH
1976PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1977 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1978 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1979 0.12.
1980
366fc9f0
PH
1981PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1982 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1983 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1984 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1985 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1986
c59f5781 1987
c887c79e
TF
1988Exim version 4.62
1989-----------------
1990
1991TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1992 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1993
1cce3af8
PH
1994PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1995 patch).
1996
afb3eaaf
PH
1997PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1998 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1999 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2000 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2001 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2002 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2003 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2004 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2005 451 error is used.
2006
e173618b
PH
2007PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2008
dd16e114
PH
2009PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2010 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2011 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2012
f7fd3850
PH
2013PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2014 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2015 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2016 odd errors.
2017
d87df92c
PH
2018PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2019 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2020
7e9f683d
PH
2021PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2022 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2023 option (which defaults to 0600).
2024
bfad5236
PH
2025PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2026
01c490df
PH
2027PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2028 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2029 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2030 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2031 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2032 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2033 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2034
d6629cdc
PH
2035PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2036
1cce3af8 2037
214e2000
PH
2038Exim version 4.61
2039-----------------
2040
2041PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2042 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2043 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2044 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2045 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2046 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2047 addresses as local.
2048
f9daeae0
PH
2049PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2050 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2051
7e66e54d
PH
2052PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2053
c8ea1597
PH
2054PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2055 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2056 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2057 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2058 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2059 grumble.
2060
911f6fde
PH
2061PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2062 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2063
47ca6d6c
PH
2064PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2065 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2066 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2067 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2068 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2069
ed0e9820
PH
2070PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2071 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2072 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2073 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2074
eff37e47
PH
2075PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2076 be the same on different OS.
2077
1921d2ea
PH
2078PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2079 testing.
2080
b3f69ca8
JJ
2081JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2082 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2083
2084JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2085 in 4.61-PH/06
2086
424a1c63
PH
2087PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2088 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2089 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2090 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2091 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2092 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2093 bounce message.
2094
7a100415
PH
2095PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2096 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2097 when Exim was called.
2098
19b9dc85
PH
2099PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2100 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2101
309bd837
PH
2102PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2103 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2104 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2105 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2106
59e82a2a
PH
2107PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2108 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2109 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2110 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2111 changes:
2112
2113 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2114 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2115 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2116
2117 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2118 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2119 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2120
9edc04ce
PH
2121PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2122 feature).
2123
1349e1e5
PH
2124PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2125 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2126 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2127 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2128 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2129 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2130 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2131 values from the SRV records were lost.
2132
ea49d0e1
PH
2133PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2134 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2135 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2136
064a94c9
PH
2137PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2138 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2139 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2140
727071f8
PH
2141PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2142 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2143 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2144 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2145 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2146 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2147 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2148 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2149 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2150 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2151
f78eb7c6
PH
2152PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2153 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2154 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2155
21c28500
PH
2156PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2157 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2158
2159PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2160 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2161 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2162 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2163 is given.
2164
1688f43b
PH
2165PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2166 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2167 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2168
2169PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2170 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2171 PH/23 above applies.
2172
9675b384
PH
2173PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2174 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2175 (for which there is an explicit test).
2176
6a3f1455
PH
2177PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2178
dac79d3e
PH
2179PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2180 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2181 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2182 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2183 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2184
5977a0b3
PH
2185PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2186 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2187 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2188 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2189
c91535f3
PH
2190PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2191 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2192 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2193
0d46a8c8
PH
2194PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2195
278c6e6c
PH
2196PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2197
2cbb4081
PH
2198PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2199 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2200 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2201
3eef829e
PH
2202PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2203 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2204 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2205 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2206 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2207
1ab95fa6
PH
2208PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2209 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2210 the message gets confusing).
2211
230205fc
PH
2212PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2213 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2214 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2215 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2216
75e0e026
PH
2217PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2218 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2219 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2220 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2221 same order.
2222
2223PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2224 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2225 the different processes.
2226
145396a6
PH
2227PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2228
3cd34f13
PH
2229PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2230
11121d3d
JJ
2231JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2232 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2233
2234JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2235 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2236
2237JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2238 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2239 messages matching specified criteria.
2240
8def5aaf
PH
2241PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2242
929ba01c
PH
2243PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2244 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2245
2632889e
PH
2246PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2247 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2248 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2249 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2250 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2251 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2252 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2253 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2254 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2255 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2256
944a9c55
PH
2257PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2258 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2259 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2260
4a23603b
PH
2261PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2262
4730f942
PH
2263PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2264 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2265 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2266 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2267 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2268 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2269 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2270 the variable.
2271
30dba1e6
PH
2272PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2273 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2274
382afc6b
PH
2275PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2276
a86229cf
PH
2277PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2278
50c99ba6
PH
2279PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2280
d35e429d
PH
2281PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2282 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2283 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2284 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2285 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2286 size of the count of files.
2287
f90d018c
PH
2288PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2289
75def545
PH
2290PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2291 used in LMTP mode:
2292
2293 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2294 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2295 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2296 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2297
2298 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2299 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2300 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2301
2302PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2303 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2304 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2305 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2306 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2307
c46782ef
PH
2308PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2309 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2310
71fafd95
PH
2311PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2312 will now be deprecated.
2313
2c5db4fd
PH
2314PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2315
9cf6b11a
JJ
2316JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2317 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2318 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2319
2320JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2321 with very large, slow to parse queues
2322
2323JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2324
2325JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2326
898d150f
PH
2327PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2328 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2329 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2330 SMTP output lines.
2331
46218253
PH
2332PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2333 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2334 Sieve code now uses this.
2335
e97957bc
PH
2336PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2337 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2338
81e509d7
PH
2339PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2340 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2341
3d240ff7
PH
2342PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2343
b37c4101
PH
2344PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2345 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2346 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2347 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2348 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2349
79378e0f
PH
2350PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2351 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2352 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2353 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2354
e49c7bb4
PH
2355PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2356
d114ec46
PH
2357PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2358
f3d7df6c
PH
2359PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2360 is preferred over IPv4.
2361
715ab376
PH
2362PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2363 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2364 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2365 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2366 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2367 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2368 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2369
6b31b150
PH
2370PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2371 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2372 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2373
2374PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2375
d515a917
PH
2376PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2377 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2378 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2379 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2380 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2381 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2382 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2383 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2384 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2385 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2386 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2387
9b8fadde
PH
2388PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2389 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2390 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2391
214e2000 2392
5de37277
PH
2393Exim version 4.60
2394-----------------
2395
cc38ddbf
PH
2396PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2397
2398 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2399 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2400
2401 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2402 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2403 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2404
72fdd6ae
PH
2405PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2406
2407 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2408 not a single digit.
2409
2410 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2411 string.
2412
2413 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2414 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2415 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2416 silly things.
2417
2418 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2419 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2420
2421 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2422 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2423
cb741023
PH
2424PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2425 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2426 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2427
f174f16e
PH
2428PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2429 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2430
c25242d7
PH
2431PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2432 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2433
2434 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2435
2436 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2437 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2438 this:
2439
2440 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2441
82c19f95
PH
2442PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2443 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2444 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2445 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2446 identical. For example:
2447
2448 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2449
2450 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2451 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2452 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2453
d7ffbc12
PH
2454PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2455 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2456 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2457 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2458
9f526266
PH
2459PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2460 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2461 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2462 message.
2463
87fcc8b9
PH
2464PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2465
2466 o fixes some comments
2467 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2468 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2469 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2470 and documents the missing references header update
2471
2472 and most important:
2473
2474 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2475 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2476 result)
2477
456682f5
PH
2478PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2479 Electronic Mail") by including:
2480
2481 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2482
2483 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2484 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2485 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2486 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2487 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2488
2489 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2490
2491 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2492
2493 The auto-replied keyword:
2494
2495 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2496 message by an automatic process,
2497
2498 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2499
2500 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2501 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2502
2503 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2504 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2505 other messages.
2506
3e46c1aa
PH
2507PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2508 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2509
49826d12
PH
2510PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2511
eba0c039
PH
2512PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2513 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2514 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2515
a0d6ba8a
PH
2516PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2517 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2518 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2519
f0917727
PH
2520PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2521 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2522 and treats the condition as false.
2523
096fee00
PH
2524PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2525
024bd3c2
PH
2526PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2527 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2528 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2529 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2530 not changing the active code.
2531
2532 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2533 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2534
2535 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2536 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2537
df199fec
PH
2538PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2539 (Bugzilla #53).
2540
d27f1df3
PH
2541PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2542 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2543 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2544 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2545 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2546 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2547 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2548 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2549 the text comparison.
2550
96776534
PH
2551PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2552 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2553 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2554 The same fix has been applied.
2555
5de37277 2556
9a799bc0
PH
2557Exim version 4.54
2558-----------------
2559
2560PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2561 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2562 It now does.
2563
99a4b039
PH
2564PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2565 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2566
2567PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2568
4b233853
PH
2569PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2570 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2571 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2572 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2573 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2574
8857ccfd
PH
2575TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2576 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2577 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2578 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2579 or /domain=).
2580
433a2980
PH
2581PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2582 testing suite.
2583
3e46c1aa 2584
9a799bc0 2585
e3a311ba
TK
2586Exim version 4.53
2587-----------------
2588
2589TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2590 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2591
13b685f9
PH
2592PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2593
395ff96d
PH
2594PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2595
5b68f6e4
PH
2596PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2597 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2598 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2599
1ab52c69
PH
2600PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2601 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2602 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2603
b07e6aa3
PH
2604PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2605 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2606 operating systems.
2607
254e032f
PH
2608PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2609 ${stat: expansion item.
2610
3af76a81
PH
2611PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2612 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2613
2548ba04
PH
2614PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2615 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2616 file for comments.
2617
b6c6011d
PH
2618PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2619
cf39cf57
PH
2620PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2621 setting.
2622
f1513293
PH
2623PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2624 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2625
727549a4
PH
2626TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2627
af46795e
PH
2628PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2629 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2630 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2631 the end of the subprocess.
2632
d7b47fd0
PH
2633PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2634 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2635 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2636 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2637 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2638
ee744174
JJ
2639JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2640
b582ab87
PH
2641TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2642
41a13e0a
PH
2643PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2644 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2645
f625cc5a
PH
2646PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2647
2648PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2649
21f7af35
PH
2650PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2651 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2652 HP-UX compiler.
2653
31480e42
PH
2654PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2655
2d280592
PH
2656PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2657 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2658 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2659
7cd1141b
PH
2660PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2661 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2662
2663PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2664 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2665
750af86e
PH
2666PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2667 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2668
2669 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2670 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2671
2672 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2673 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2674 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2675 contributed by a Radius user.
2676
2677PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2678 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2679
4304270b
TK
2680TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2681 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2682
750af86e
PH
2683PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2684 available.
2685
64ffc24f
PH
2686PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2687 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2688 received.
2689
5dd9625b
PH
2690PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2691 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2692 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2693 header lines when this was not necessary.
2694
5591031b
PH
2695PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2696
ba18e66a
PH
2697PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2698 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2699 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2700 exists".
2701
9cec981f
PH
2702PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2703 -bV or -d is used.
2704
aa2b5c79
PH
2705PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2706 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2707 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2708 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2709
48a53b7f
PH
2710PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2711
1c59d63b
PH
2712PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2713
671012da
TK
2714TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2715
1509d3a8
PH
2716PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2717
2718PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2719 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2720 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2721 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2722 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2723 settings.
2724
2725PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2726
2fe1a124
PH
2727PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2728 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2729 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2730 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2731 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2732 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2733 which is clearly wrong.
2734
8800895a
PH
2735PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2736
ccfdb010
PH
2737PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2738 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2739 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2740 subsequently added.
2741
1130bfb0
PH
2742PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2743 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2744
ebcb507f
PH
2745PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2746
c35e155c
PH
2747PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2748 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2749
95d1f782
PH
2750PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2751 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2752
fd6de02e
PH
2753PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2754 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2755
58de37c5
PH
2756PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2757 recipients, not senders.
2758
261cf466
TF
2759TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2760 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2761
3ee512ff
PH
2762PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2763
e08c430f
PH
2764PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2765
bef5a11f
PH
2766PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2767 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2768 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2769 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2770
7546de58
TF
2771TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2772
e5d5a95f
TF
2773TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2774 clock is set back in time.
2775
2e88a017
TF
2776TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2777 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2778
a5f65aa4
TF
2779TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2780 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2781
e7726cbf
PH
2782PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2783 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2784 (see PH/47 above).
2785
a7fdad5b
TF
2786TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2787 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2788 header rewrites.
2789
6af56900
PH
2790PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2791 type ("H").
2792
0925ede6
PH
2793PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2794
66afa403
TF
2795TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2796 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2797 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2798
0154e85a
TF
2799TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2800 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2801 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2802 helo verification defer as a failure.
2803
16f12c76
PH
2804PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2805 actual error message.
2806
bbe902f0 2807
e5a9dba6
PH
2808Exim version 4.52
2809-----------------
2810
2811TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2812
22c3b60b
PH
2813PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2814 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2815 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2816 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2817
06a9b4b5
PH
2818TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2819
c1ac6996
PH
2820PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2821 can still be requested.
2822
9c7a242c
PH
2823PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2824 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2825 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2826 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2827
87ba3f5f
PH
2828TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2829 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2830 circumstances, but probably never did.
2831
2832PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2833 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2834 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2835 in the header line.
2836
29aba418
TF
2837TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2838
fe0dab11
TF
2839TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2840 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2841
11d337a4
TK
2842TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2843
2844TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2845
415c8f3b
PH
2846PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2847 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2848 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2849 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2850 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2851 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2852
958541e9
PH
2853PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2854 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2855 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2856 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2857 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2858 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2859
c206415f
TK
2860TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2861 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2862
2a4be8f9
PH
2863PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2864 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2865
1cba11c5
SC
2866SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2867 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2868
2869SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2870
2871SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2872
2873SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2874
2875SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2876
2877SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2878
2879SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2880
1005d00e
TK
2881TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2882
2883TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2884 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2885 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2886
2887TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2888 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2889 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2890 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2891
9b4768fa
PH
2892PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2893 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2894 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2895
2896PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2897 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2898 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2899 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2900
0d7eb84a
PH
2901PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2902 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2903 to be made).
2904
2905PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2906 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2907 should work with maildirs and everything.
2908
40727bee
TK
2909TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2910 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2911
554d2369
TF
2912TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2913 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2914
1f922db1
PH
2915PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2916 function for BDB 4.3.
2917
ef213c3b
PH
2918PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2919
8ac170f3
PH
2920PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2921 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2922 involved.
2923
b1c749bb
PH
2924PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2925 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2926 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2927 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2928 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2929 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2930
4aac9b49
PH
2931PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2932 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2933 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2934 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2935 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2936 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2937 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2938 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2939
294520c8
TK
2940TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2941 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2942 details.
2943
5bd022fe
PH
2944PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2945 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2946
90e9ce59
PH
2947PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2948 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2949 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2950 test. It is now used for both.
2951
5ea81592
PH
2952PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2953 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2954 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2955 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2956 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2957 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2958
c6c2dc1d
PH
2959PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2960 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2961 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2962 string_vformat().
2963
fffffe4c
PH
2964PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2965 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2966 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2967
9a26b6b2
PH
2968PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2969 experimental DomainKeys support:
2970
2971 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2972 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2973 the control was given.
2974
2975 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2976
4aee0225
PH
2977PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2978
32d668a5
PH
2979PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2980
8187c3f3
PH
2981PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2982 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2983 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2984 db.h files).
2985
ff790e47 2986PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2987 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2988 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2989 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2990 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2991 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2992 course.
ff790e47 2993
5417f6d1
PH
2994PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2995 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2996 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2997 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2998 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2999 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3000
59cf8544
PH
3001PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3002 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3003 do -d+all out of habit.
3004
e7ad8a65
PH
3005PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3006 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3007 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3008
ade42478
PH
3009PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3010 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3011 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3012 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3013 record types that Exim uses.
3014
182ad5cf
PH
3015PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3016 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3017 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3018 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3019 non-existent file that was broken.
3020
b0d9fc80
TK
3021TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3022 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3023
3024TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3025 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3026 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3027
3028TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3029
47c7a64a
PH
3030PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3031 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3032 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3033 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3034 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3035 same time.
3036
a388bce4
SC
3037SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3038 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3039 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3040 at a slight CPU cost.
3041
3042SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3043 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3044
3045SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3046 by Marc Sherman.
3047
0793e4ed
SC
3048SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3049
c58b88df
PH
3050PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3051 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3052
e7ad8a65 3053
7982096b
PH
3054Exim version 4.51
3055-----------------
3056
1a46a8c5
PH
3057TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3058 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3059
2f079f46 3060TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3061
3062TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3063
3064PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3065 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3066
3067PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3068 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3069 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3070 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3071 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3072 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3073 file.
3074
3075PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3076 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3077 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3078 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3079 these two options.
3080
3081PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3082 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3083 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3084 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3085 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3086 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3087 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3088 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3089
3090PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3091 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3092
3093PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3094 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3095 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3096 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3097 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3098 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3099
3100PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3101 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3102 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3103 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3104
3105PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3106 Finch).
3107
3108PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3109 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3110
49c2d5ea
PH
3111PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3112 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3113 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3114 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3115 message.
49c2d5ea 3116
bf759a8b
PH
3117PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3118
83364d30
PH
3119PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3120 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3121
7999bbd7
PH
3122PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3123 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3124 to what was transported.)
3125
7dbf77c9
PH
3126TF/01 Added $received_time.
3127
74e0617f
PH
3128PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3129 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3130 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3131 spamd_address settings.
3132
2f079f46
PH
3133PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3134 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3135 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3136 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3137 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3138
8c841523
PH
3139PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3140
7766a4f0
PH
3141PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3142 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3143 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3144 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3145 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3146
8b417f2c
PH
3147PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3148 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3149
901f42cb
PH
3150PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3151 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3152 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3153 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3154 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3155 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3156 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3157 for failure.
3158
f9b9210e
PH
3159PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3160 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3161 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3162 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3163 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3164 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3165 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3166 "input=".
3167
54cdb463
PH
3168PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3169
cf00dad6
PH
3170PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3171 driver and ACL definitions.
3172
acb1b346
PH
3173PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3174 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3175
c5ddb310
PH
3176PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3177 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3178 understands it better than I do:
3179
3180 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3181 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3182
3183 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3184 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3185 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3186 => three warnings about OTP not working
3187 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3188
3189 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3190 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3191 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3192 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3193 for each call.)
3194 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3195 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3196
3197 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3198 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3199 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3200
31619da6
PH
3201PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3202 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3203 specified.
3204
bebaf0fc
PH
3205PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3206 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3207 "Linux".
3208
475fe28a
PH
3209PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3210 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3211 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3212
3213 warn !verify = sender
3214 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3215
3216 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3217 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3218
7e8bec7a
PH
3219PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3220
3221 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3222 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3223
3224 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3225 nomenclature these days.)
3226
e4a89c47
PH
3227PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3228 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3229
5ca2a9a1
PH
3230PH/30 In these circumstances:
3231 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3232 . First host does not offer TLS;
3233 . First host accepts first address;
3234 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3235 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3236 . Second host accepts second address.
3237 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3238 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3239 address.
7e8bec7a 3240
c688b954
PH
3241PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3242 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3243 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3244 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3245 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3246
fed77020
PH
3247PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3248 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3249
7fe1560f
PH
3250PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3251 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3252
ebb6e6d5
PH
3253PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3254 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3255 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3256
9c4e8f60
PH
3257PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3258 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3259 overlooked.
3260
3261PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3262
d7174846
PH
3263PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3264 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3265 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3266 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3267 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3268 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3269 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3270
3271 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3272 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3273 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3274 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3275 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3276
3277 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3278 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3279 routed further.
3280
cfe75fc3
PH
3281PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3282 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3283 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3284 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3285 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3286 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3287
be22d70e
PH
3288PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3289
0612b098
PH
3290PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3291 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3292 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3293 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3294 printable escape sequences.
3295
2e0c1448
PH
3296PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3297 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3298 body only.
3299
447d236c
PH
3300PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3301 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3302 are as follows:
3303
3304 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3305 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3306 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3307 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3308 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3309
3310 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3311 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3312 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3313
d20976dc
PH
3314PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3315
f656d135
PH
3316PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3317 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3318 play with."
3319
2e2a30b4
PH
3320PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3321 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3322 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3323 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3324 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3325 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3326 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3327 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3328 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3329 the log output.
3330
9176e9f0
PH
3331PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3332 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3333 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3334 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3335 "make".
3336
7982096b 3337
bbe902f0
PH
3338A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3339----------------------------------------
3340
3341Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3342changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3343needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3344in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3345that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3346release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3347from 4.43.
3348
3349I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
33504.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3351those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3352historical information.
3353
3354
f7b63901 3355Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3356-----------------
3357
5fe762f6
PH
3358 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3359
139059f6 3360 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3361 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3362
7086e875
PH
3363 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3364 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3365 place.
3366
35af9f61
PH
3367 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3368 filter fails to execute.
3369
b668c215
PH
3370 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3371 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3372 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3373 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3374 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3375
a494b1e1
PH
3376 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3377
3378 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3379 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3380 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3381 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3382
c5fcb476
PH
3383 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3384 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3385 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3386 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3387 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3388
69358f02
PH
3389 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3390
5be20824
PH
339110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3392
eb2c0248
PH
339311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3394 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3395 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3396 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3397
2a3eea10
PH
339812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3399 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3400 sender verification.
3401
340213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3403 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3404
23c7ff99
PH
340514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3406
4deaf07d
PH
340715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3408 connection timeout.
3409
926e1192
PH
341016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3411 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3412
650edc6f
PH
341317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3414 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3415
2c7db3f5
PH
341618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3417 information about exactly what failed.
3418
3d235903
PH
341919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3420
7c7ad977
PH
342120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3422 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3423 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3424
981756db
PH
342521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3426 It is now set to "smtps".
3427
d4eb88df
PH
342822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3429 ignore_target_hosts.
3430
343123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3432 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3433 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3434 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3435 "[x.x.x.x]".
3436
7d468ab8
PH
343724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3438 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3439 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3440
344125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3442 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3443 wake it up if nothing else does.
3444
62c0818f
PH
344526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3446 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3447 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3448 end up negative.
3449
26034054
PH
345027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3451 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3452
af66f652
PH
345328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3454
90af77f4
PH
345529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3456 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3457 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3458 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3459 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3460 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3461 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3462 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3463
d8ef3577
PH
346430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3465 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3466 than one IP address.
3467
5cb8cbc6
PH
346831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3469 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3470 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3471 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3472
14702f5b
PH
347332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3474 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3475 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3476 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3477 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3478 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3479
063b1e99
PH
348033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3481 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3482 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3483 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3484
652e1b65
PH
348534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3486 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3487 respected.
3488
6f0c9a4f
PH
348935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3490 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3491 $sender_host_address.
3492
33397d19
PH
349336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3494 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3495 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3496 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3497 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3498 very small.
3499
7bb56e1f
PH
350037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3501
3502 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3503 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3504
ea3bc19b
PH
3505 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3506 just the host names, not the priorities.
3507
3508 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3509 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3510 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3511
ea3bc19b 3512 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3513 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3514
0bcb2a0e
PH
351538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3516 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3517 domain.
3518
2ac0e484
PH
351939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3520
4e1fde53
PH
352140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3522 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3523
de365ded
PH
352441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3525 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3526 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3527
f05da2e8
PH
352842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3529
d6453af2
PH
353043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3531
f7b63901
PH
353244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3533
353445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3535 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3536 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3537 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3538 because the tests only now provoked it.
3539
a444213a
PH
354046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3541 (this can affect the format of dates).
3542
0ec020ea
PH
354347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3544 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3545 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3546 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3547
b1206957
PH
354848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3549
355049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3551 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3552 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3553 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3554
26dd5a95
PH
355550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3556 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3557 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3558
343b2385
PH
355951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3560 autoreply.
3561
1c5466b9
PH
356252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3563 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3564 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3565 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3566 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3567 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3568 is going on).
3569
55ee9ee3
PH
357053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3571 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3572 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3573 the line.
3574
d38f8232
PH
357554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3576 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3577 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3578
3579 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3580 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3581 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3582 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3583 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3584 so I produce this patch..."
3585
3295e65b
PH
3586 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3587 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3588 is not defined.
3589
7102e136
PH
359055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3591 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3592 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3593 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3594 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3595
3ca0ba97
PH
359656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3597
c2bcbe20
PH
359857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3599 long debug lines gets shown.
3600
18ce445d
PH
360158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3602 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3603
1f5b4c3d
PH
360459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3605
3606 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3607 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3608 of $primary_hostname.
3609
b975ba52
PH
361060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3611 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3612 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3613 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3614 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3615 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3616 by change 4.50/55 above.
3617
3618 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3619 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3620 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3621 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3622 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3623 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3624 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3625
362661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3627 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3628 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3629 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3630
17ffcae7
PH
363162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3632 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3633
d95f9fdb
PH
363463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3635 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3636 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3637 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3638 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3639
86b8287f
PH
364064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3641 This has been fixed.
3642
60dc5e56
PH
364365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3644 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3645 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3646 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3647 the caching.)
3648
533244af
PH
364966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3650
a5a28604
PH
365167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3652 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3653 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3654 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3655
7e634d24
PH
365668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3657 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3658
3e11c26b
PH
365969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3660 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3661 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3662
6729cf78
PH
366370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3664 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3665 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3666 message there.
3667
00f00ca5
PH
366871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3669 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3670 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3671
c9bdd01c
PH
367272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3673 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3674 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3675 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3676
d43194df
PH
367773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3678 during host lookups.
3679
fe5b5d0b
PH
368074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3681 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3682
3683 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3684
76a2d7ba
PH
368575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3686 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3687 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3688 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3689 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3690 background.
3691
369276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3693 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3694
04f7d5b9
PH
369577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3696 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3697 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3698
bc60667e
PH
369978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3700
bb6e88ff
PH
370179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3702 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3703 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3704 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3705 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3706 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3707 process earlier.
3708
1e70f85b
PH
370980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3710 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3711 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3712 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3713 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3714
371581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3716 tables).
3717
4e01f9d6
PH
371882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3719
1ee1cef2
PH
372083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3721 "vacation" handling.
3722
6e2b4ccc
PH
372384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3724 OS variants using glibc.
3725
8e669ac1
PH
372685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3727
495ae4b0 3728
bbe902f0
PH
3729----------------------------------------------------
3730See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3731----------------------------------------------------
3732
3733
3734Exim version 4.44
3735-----------------
3736
3737 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3738 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3739 transport
3740
3741 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3742 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3743 place.
3744
3745 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3746 filter fails to execute.
3747
3748 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3749 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3750 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3751 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3752 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3753
3754 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3755 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3756 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3757 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3758
3759 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3760 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3761 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3762 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3763 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3764
3765 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3766
3767 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3768 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3769 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3770 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3771
3772 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3773 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3774 sender verification.
3775
377610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3777 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3778
377911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3780 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3781
378212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3783 ignore_target_hosts.
3784
378513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3786 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3787 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3788 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3789 "[x.x.x.x]".
3790
379114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3792 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3793 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3794
379515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3796 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3797 wake it up if nothing else does.
3798
379916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3800 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3801 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3802 end up negative.
3803
380417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3805 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3806
ea3a6f44 380718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3808
380919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3810 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3811 empty pattern.
3812
381320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3814 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3815 one IP address.
3816
ea3a6f44
NM
381721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3818 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3819 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3820 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3821 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3822 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3823
ea3a6f44
NM
382422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3825 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3826 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3827
382823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3829 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3830 $sender_host_address.
3831
383224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3833
ea3a6f44
NM
383425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3835 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3836 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3837
383826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3839 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3840
ea3a6f44
NM
384127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3842 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3843
ea3a6f44
NM
384428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3845 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3846 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3847 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3848
384929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3850 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3851 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3852
ea3a6f44
NM
385330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3854 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3855 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3856 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3857
ea3a6f44
NM
385831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3859 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3860 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3861
ea3a6f44
NM
386231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3863 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3864
ea3a6f44
NM
386532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3866 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3867 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3868 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3869 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3870 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3871 is going on).
bbe902f0 3872
ea3a6f44
NM
387333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3874 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3875 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3876 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3877 CAN-2005-0021
3878
ea3a6f44
NM
387934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3880 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3881 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3882 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3883 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3884 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3885 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3886
3887 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3888 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3889 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3890 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3891 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3892 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3893 CAN-2005-0021
3894
ea3a6f44
NM
389535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3896 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3897 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3898 CAN-2005-0022
3899
ea3a6f44
NM
390036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3901 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3902 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3903 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3904 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3905
ea3a6f44
NM
390637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3907 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3908 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3909 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3910 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3911
ea3a6f44
NM
391238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3913 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3914 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3915 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3916 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3917
3918
495ae4b0
PH
3919Exim version 4.43
3920-----------------
3921
3922 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3923 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3924 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3925 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3926 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3927 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3928 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3929
3930 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3931 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3932 the delivery.
3933
3934 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3935
3936 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3937
3938 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3939 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3940 to local_scan().
3941
3942 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3943 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3944 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3945 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3946 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3947
3948 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3949 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3950
3951 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3952
3953 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3954
395510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3956 header_sender only.
3957
395811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3959 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3960
396112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3962 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3963 affecting debugging statements).
3964
396513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3966
396714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3968 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3969 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3970 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3971 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3972 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3973 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3974 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3975 after the received time, and all would be well.
3976
397715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3978 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3979 condition in an expansion string.
3980
398116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3982
398317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3984 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3985 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3986 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3987 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3988 job under whatever limits there are.
3989
399018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3991
399219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3993 space).
3994
399520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3996 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3997 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3998 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3999 return path is set.
4000
400121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4002 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4003 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4004 binary data in such strings.
4005
400622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4007
400823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4009 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4010 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4011 failure, which is pointless.
4012
401324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4014
401525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4016
401726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4018 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4019 Sender: header lines.
4020
402127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4022 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4023 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4024
402528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4026 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4027 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4028 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4029 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4030 happens.
4031
403229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4033 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4034 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4035 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4036 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4037
403830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4039 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4040 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4041 1024.
4042
404331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4044 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4045
404632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4047 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4048
404933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4050
405132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4052
405333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4054
405534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4056 syntax error.
4057
405835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4059
406036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4061
406237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4063 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4064 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4065 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4066
406738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4068 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4069
4070
4071Exim version 4.42
4072-----------------
4073
4074 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4075 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4076 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4077 it was not quoted.
4078 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4079 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4080 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4081 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4082 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4083 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4084
4085 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4086 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4087 verification failure".
4088
4089 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4090 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4091 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4092 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4093
4094 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4095 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4096 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4097 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4098 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4099 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4100 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4101 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4102 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4103 treated as a timeout.
4104
4105 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4106 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4107 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4108 not set for Exim filters).
4109
4110 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4111 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4112 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4113
4114 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4115
4116 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4117 try to make them clearer.
4118
4119 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4120 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4121
4122 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4123
4124 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4125
412610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4127 only the Cygwin environment.
4128
412911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4130 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4131 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4132 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4133 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4134
413512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4136 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4137 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4138 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4139 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4140 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4141 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4142
414313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4144 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4145
414614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4147
4148 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4149 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4150 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4151
4152 To: susanne@some.where
4153
4154 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4155 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4156 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4157 of addresses in From: header lines).
4158
4159 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4160 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4161 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4162
4163 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4164 treated as non-personal.
4165
4166 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4167 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4168
416915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4170
417116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4172
417317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4174 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4175 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4176
417718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4178 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4179
418019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4181 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4182 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4183 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4184 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4185 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4186
418720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4188 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4189 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4190 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4191 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4192 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4193 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4194 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4195
4196 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4197
419821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4199 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4200
420122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4202 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4203 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4204
420523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4206 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4207
420824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4209 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4210 rather than long int.
4211
421225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4213
421426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4215
4216
4217Exim version 4.41
4218-----------------
4219
4220 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4221 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4222 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4223 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4224 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4225 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4226
4227
4228Exim version 4.40
4229-----------------
4230
4231 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4232 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4233
4234 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4235 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4236 socklen_t is defined.
4237
4238 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4239 always exist.
4240
4241 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4242 configured.
4243
4244 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4245 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4246 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4247 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4248 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4249
4250 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4251 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4252 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4253 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4254
4255 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4256 of flapping under certain conditions.
4257
4258 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4259 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4260 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4261
4262 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4263
426410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4265
426611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4267 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4268 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4269 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4270
427112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4272 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4273 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4274 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4275 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4276 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4277 preserved with the message after it was received.
4278
427913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4280 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4281 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4282 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4283 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4284 test suite worked just fine.
4285
428614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4287 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4288 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4289
429015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4291 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4292 string.
4293
429416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4295 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4296 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4297 does not fully solve it.
4298
429917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4300 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4301 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4302 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4303 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4304
430518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4306 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4307 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4308
430919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4310 string, for example:
4311
4312 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4313
4314 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4315 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4316 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4317 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4318 the routers could not see them.
4319
432020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4321 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4322
432321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4324 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4325 output).
4326
432722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4328 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4329 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4330 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4331 that needed quoting.
4332
433323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4334 was not being matched caselessly.
4335
433624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4337 backslashes.
4338
433925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4340 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4341 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4342 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4343 when use_sender is false.
4344
434526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4346
434727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4348
434928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4350
435129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4352 the configuration file.
4353
435430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4355 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4356
435731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4358
435932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4360 bytes in the message body.
4361
436233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4363 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4364 delivery.
4365
436634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4367
436835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4369
437036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4371 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4372 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4373 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4374 another IP address.
4375
4376
4377Exim version 4.34
4378-----------------
4379
4380 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4381 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4382
4383 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4384 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4385 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4386 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4387 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4388
4389 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4390 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4391
4392 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4393 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4394 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4395
4396 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4397 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4398 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4399
4400 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4401 for routers.
4402
4403 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4404 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4405 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4406 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4407 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4408 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4409 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4410
4411
4412Exim version 4.33
4413-----------------
4414
4415 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4416 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4417 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4418 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4419 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4420 default (and expected) setting.
4421
4422 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4423 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4424 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4425 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4426
4427 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4428 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4429
4430 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4431 in domain lists.
4432
4433 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4434 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4435 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4436 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4437 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4438 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4439
4440 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4441 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4442 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4443
4444 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4445 part (NOT match_host).
4446
4447 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4448
4449 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4450 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4451 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4452 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4453 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4454 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4455 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4456 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4457 the same named file.
4458
445910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4460 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4461 when Exim is built.
4462
446311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4464 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4465 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4466 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4467 a host name.
4468
446912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4470 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4471 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4472
447313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4474
447514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4476
447715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4478
447916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4480 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4481
448217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4483 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4484 before starting the TLS session.
4485
448618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4487
448819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4489 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4490
449120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4492 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4493 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4494 colon in the middle).
4495
4496
4497Exim version 4.32
4498-----------------
4499
4500 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4501 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4502 multiple configurations are in use.
4503
4504 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4505 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4506 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4507 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4508 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4509 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4510
4511 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4512 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4513
4514 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4515 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4516 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4517
4518 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4519 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4520 occurs.
4521
4522 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4523 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4524
4525 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4526
4527 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4528 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4529
4530 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4531
4532 -prval:sval
4533
4534 is equivalent to
4535
4536 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4537
4538 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4539 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4540 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4541 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4542 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4543
454410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4545 Exim's behaviour:
4546
4547 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4548 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4549 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4550 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4551 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4552 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4553
4554 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4555 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4556 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4557 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4558 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4559 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4560 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4561 string.
4562
4563 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4564 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4565 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4566 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4567 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4568
456911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4570
457112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4572 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4573 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4574
457513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4576
457714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4578 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4579 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4580 information.
4581
458215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4583 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4584
458516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4586 Three changes have been made:
4587
4588 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4589 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4590 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4591 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4592 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4593
4594 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4595 been restored.
4596
4597 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4598 the modified behaviour.
4599
4600
4601Exim version 4.31
4602-----------------
4603
4604 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4605 Larry Rosenman.
4606
4607 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4608 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4609
4610 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4611 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4612 try to track down a specific problem.
4613
4614 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4615 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4616 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4617
4618 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4619 warning.
4620
4621 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4622 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4623 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4624 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4625 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4626 some earlier ones do not.
4627
4628 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4629
4630 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4631 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4632 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4633 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4634 address literals are enabled, of course).
4635
4636 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4637
463810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4639 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4640 by a command such as
4641
4642 exim -f "" ...
4643
4644 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4645
464611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4647
464812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4649 remained set. It is now erased.
4650
465113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4652 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4653
465414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4655 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4656 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4657 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4658 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4659 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4660 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4661 appropriate error code.
4662
466315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4664 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4665 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4666 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4667 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4668 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4669
467016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4671 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4672 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4673
467417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4675 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4676 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4677 terminate the header.
4678
467918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4680 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4681 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4682
468319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4684 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4685 (4.30/29). In particular:
4686
4687 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4688 imposed.
4689
4690 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4691 to write a maildirsize file.
4692
4693 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4694 the transport, the new value overrides.
4695
4696 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4697 count.
4698
469920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4700 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4701 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4702 space or a tab.
4703
470421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4705 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4706 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4707 the fallback hosts.
4708
470922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4710 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4711 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4712
471323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4714 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4715 using a union.
4716
471724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4718 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4719 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4720
472125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4722
472326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4724
472527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4726
472728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4728 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4729 become corrupted.
4730
473129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4732 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4733 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4734 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4735 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4736 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4737 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4738 too great.
4739
474030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4741 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4742 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4743 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4744 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4745 incorrectly.
4746
474731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4748 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4749 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4750 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4751 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4752 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4753 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4754 cached value only when the same options are set.
4755
475632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4757
475833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4759 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4760 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4761 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4762 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4763
476434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4765 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4766 it is clearly obsolete.
4767
476835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4769 transport.
4770
477136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4772 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4773 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4774 times.
4775
477637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4777 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4778 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4779 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4780 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4781
478238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4783 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4784 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4785 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4786
478739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4788
4789 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4790
4791 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4792 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4793 2^31.
4794
479540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4796 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4797 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4798 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4799 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4800 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4801 $localpart_data.
4802
480341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4804 with the -f command-line option.
4805
480642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4807 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4808 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4809 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4810 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4811 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4812
481343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4814 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4815 line.
4816
481744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4818 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4819 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4820 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4821 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4822 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4823 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4824 buffer is too small.
4825
482645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4827 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4828
482946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4830 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4831 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4832 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4833 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4834 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4835 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4836 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4837 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4838
483947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4840 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4841 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4842
484348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4844 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4845 ACL").
4846
484749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4848 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4849 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4850 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4851 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4852
485350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4854 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4855 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4856 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4857 is set.
4858
485951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4860
486152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4862
486353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4864 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4865
486654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4867 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4868 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4869
487055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4871 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4872 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4873 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4874 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4875
487656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4877 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4878 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4879 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4880 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4881 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4882 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4883
488457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4885 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4886 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4887 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4888 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4889 the test of how many are available.
4890
489158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4892 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4893 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4894 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4895 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4896 new message is started.
4897
489859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4899 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4900
490160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4902 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4903
490461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4905 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4906 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4907 is no long logged.
4908
490962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4910 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4911 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4912 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4913 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4914 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4915 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4916
491763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4918 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4919 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4920 interpreted as octal.
4921
492264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4923 setting.
4924
492565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4926 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4927 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4928 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4929 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4930 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4931
493266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4933 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4934 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4935 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4936
4937 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4938 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4939 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4940 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4941
4942 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4943 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4944 is a bug fix.
4945
4946 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4947 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4948
494967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4950
495168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4952 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4953 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4954 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4955
495669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4957 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4958 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4959 supplied", which is not helpful.
4960
496170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4962 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4963 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4964
496571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4966 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4967 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4968 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4969 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4970 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4971 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4972 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4973
497472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4975 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4976 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4977 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4978 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4979
498073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4981 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4982 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4983 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4984 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4985 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4986
498774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4988 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4989 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4990
499175. Added write_rejectlog option.
4992
499376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4994 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4995 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4996 variables.
4997
499877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4999
500078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5001 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5002 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5003 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5004 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5005 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5006 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5007 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5008
500979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5010 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5011 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5012 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5013 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5014
501580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5016 Haardt.
5017
501881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5019 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5020 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5021 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5022 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5023 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5024 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5025 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5026 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5027
5028
5029Exim version 4.30
5030-----------------
5031
5032 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5033 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5034 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5035
5036 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5037 fixed.
5038
5039 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5040 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5041 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5042
5043 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5044 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5045 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5046 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5047 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5048 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5049
5050 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5051 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5052 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5053 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5054 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5055 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5056 the Exim test suite.
5057
5058 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5059 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5060 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5061 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5062
5063 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5064 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5065 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5066 specify it in this variable.
5067
5068 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5069 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5070 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5071 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5072
5073 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5074 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5075 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5076 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5077
5078 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5079 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5080 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5081 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5082 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5083
5084 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5085
508610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5087 they are logged.
5088
508911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5090 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5091 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5092 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5093 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5094
509512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5096 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5097
509813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5099 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5100 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5101 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5102 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5103
510414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5105 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5106
510715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5108 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5109 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5110
511116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5112 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5113
511417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5115 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5116
511718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5118 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5119 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5120
512119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5122 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5123
512420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5125 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5126 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5127 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5128
512921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5130
513122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5132 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5133 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5134 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5135
513623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5137
513824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5139 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5140
514125. Added .include_if_exists.
5142
514326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5144 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5145 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5146 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5147 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5148 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5149
515027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5151
515228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5153 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5154 this.
5155
515629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5157
515830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5159 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5160
5161 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5162 550 Sender verify failed
5163
5164 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5165 the final line of the response.
5166
516731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5168 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5169 all other user lookups.
5170
517132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5172 delivery time.
5173
517433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5175 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5176 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5177 result into an int without checking.
5178
517934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5180 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5181 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5182
518335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5184 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5185 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5186 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5187
518836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5189 correctly.
5190
519137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5192 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5193
519438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5195 to the empty sender.
5196
519739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5198 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5199 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5200 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5201 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5202 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5203 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5204 panic log.
5205
520640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5207 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5208 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5209 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5210 used.
5211
521241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5213 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5214
521542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5216 timestamps.
5217
521843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5219 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5220
522144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5222
522345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5224 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5225 logs.
5226
522746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5228 as soon as it is encountered.
5229
523047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5231
523248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5233 rewritten to "<>".
5234
523549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5236 recognizes a tab character.
5237
523850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5239 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5240 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5241 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5242
524351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5244
524552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5246 crash.
5247
524853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5249
525054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5251
525255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5253 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5254 2822.
5255
525656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5257 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5258 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5259 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5260 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5261
526257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5263 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5264
526558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5266 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5267 list (.included file names were always shown).
5268
526959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5270 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5271 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5272 root at that time.
5273
527460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5275 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5276
527761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5278
527962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5280
528163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5282
528364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5284 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5285 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5286 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5287 failures to open the logs.
5288
528965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5290 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5291 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5292 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5293 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5294 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5295 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5296
5297
5298Exim version 4.24
5299-----------------
5300
5301 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5302 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5303 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5304 change 4.23/1.
5305
5306 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5307 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5308 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5309
5310 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5311 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5312 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5313
5314 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5315 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5316 causing some misleading effects.
5317
5318 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5319 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5320 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5321
5322 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5323 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5324 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5325 queue-runner function directly.
5326
5327
5328Exim version 4.23
5329-----------------
5330
5331 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5332 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5333
5334 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5335 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5336 was always written to the default place.
5337
5338 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5339 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5340 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5341
5342 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5343
5344 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5345
5346 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5347 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5348 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5349
5350 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5351 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5352 must start.
5353
5354 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5355 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5356 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5357
5358 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5359 command line option is disabled.
5360
5361 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5362 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5363
5364 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5365
5366 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5367
5368 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5369 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5370
537110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5372
537311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5374 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5375 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5376 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5377 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5378 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5379
538012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5381 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5382 timeout.
5383
538413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5385 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5386
538714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5388 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5389
539015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5391 received was valid base64.
5392
539316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5394 name of the variable that was being set.
5395
539617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5397
539818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5399 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5400 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5401 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5402 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5403 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5404
540519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5406
540720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5408 nor realm was specified.
5409
541021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5411 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5412 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5413 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5414
541522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5416 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5417 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5418
541923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5420 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5421 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5422
542324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5424 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5425 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5426 some systems use these upper case variants.
5427
542825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5429 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5430 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5431 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5432
543326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5434
543527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5436 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5437
543828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5439 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5440 expansion variable.
5441
544229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5443
544430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5445 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5446 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5447 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5448
544931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5450 using it.
5451
545232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5453 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5454 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5455
545633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5457 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5458
545934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5460 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5461 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5462 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5463
546435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5465 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5466 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5467
546836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5469
547037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5471 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5472 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5473 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5474 aborted.
5475
547638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5477 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5478 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5479
548039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5481
548240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5483 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5484
548541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5486 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5487
548842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5489 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5490 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5491 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5492 when emails are that large.
5493
5494
5495
5496Exim version 4.22
5497-----------------
5498
5499 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5500 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5501
5502 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5503 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5504 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5505
5506 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5507 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5508 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5509
5510 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5511 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5512 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5513 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5514 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5515
5516 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5517 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5518 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5519 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5520 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5521 ever.
5522
5523 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5524 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5525 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5526 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5527 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5528 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5529 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5530 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5531 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5532 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5533 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5534 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5535 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5536 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5537
5538 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5539 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5540 parameterised it.
5541
5542 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5543 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5544 error should be diagnosed.
5545
5546 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5547 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5548 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5549 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5550 appeared instead of "NULL".
5551
555210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5553 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5554 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5555 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5556 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5557 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5558 proceeds).
5559
5560 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5561 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5562 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5563
5564
5565Exim version 4.21
5566-----------------
5567
5568 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5569 or receiver verification errors.
5570
5571 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5572 name.
5573
5574 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5575 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5576 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5577 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5578
5579 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5580 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5581 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5582 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5583 shouldn't happen again.
5584
5585 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5586 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5587 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5588
5589 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5590 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5591
5592 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5593
5594 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5595 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5596
5597 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5598 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5599 RFC.
5600
560110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5602 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5603 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5604
560511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5606 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5607 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5608 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5609
561012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5611 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5612 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5613 to define what should happen).
5614
561513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5616 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5617 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5618
561914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5620
562115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5622
562316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5624 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5625
562617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5627 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5628 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5629 structure in all cases.
5630
5631 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5632 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5633 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5634 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5635
563618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5637 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5638 domain name.
5639
564019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5641 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5642
564320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5644 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5645
564621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5647 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5648 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5649
565022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5651 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5652 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5653
565423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5655 the book and for uniformity.
5656
565724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5658
565925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5660 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5661 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5662 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5663 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5664 non-existent command as the problem.
5665
566626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5667 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5668 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5669
567027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5671
567228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5673 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5674 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5675
567629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5677 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5678 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5679 timestamps using strftime().
5680
568130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5682 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5683
568432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5685 transport-time rewrites.
5686
568733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5688 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5689 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5690 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5691
569234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5693 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5694
569535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5696 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5697 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5698 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5699 comma and a space.
5700
570136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5702 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5703 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5704 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5705 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5706 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5707 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5708
570937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5710 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5711 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5712 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5713 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5714
571538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5716 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5717 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5718 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5719 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5720 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5721 remaining text gets split now.
5722
572339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5724 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5725 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5726 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5727
572840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5729 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5730 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5731 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5732 $return_path.
5733
573441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5735 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5736 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5737 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5738 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5739 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5740 passed through if needed.
5741
574242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5743 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5744 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5745 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5746 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5747 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5748
574943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5750 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5751 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5752 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5753 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5754
575544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5756 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5757 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5758 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5759 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5760
576145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5762 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5763 noticed.
5764
576546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5766 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5767 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5768 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5769 mayhem of various kinds.
5770
577147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5772 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5773 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5774 the right test for positive values.
5775
577648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5777 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5778 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5779 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5780 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5781 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5782 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5783 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5784 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5785 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5786 envelope.
5787
578849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5789 module.
5790
579150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5792 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5793 forbidding it.
5794
579551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5796 the existing equality matching.
5797
579852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5799 dealing with inode numbers.
5800
580153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5802 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5803 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5804
580554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5806 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5807 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5808 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5809 local_scan().
5810
581155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5812 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5813 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5814 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5815 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5816 relay addresses has also been removed.
5817
581856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5819
582057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5821 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5822 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5823
582458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5825 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5826 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5827 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5828 processing applies to CR:
5829
5830 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5831 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5832
5833 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5834 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5835 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5836 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5837
583859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5839 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5840 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5841
584260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5843 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5844 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5845 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5846 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5847 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5848 arisen.
5849
585061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5851 program routers.
5852
585362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5854 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5855 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5856 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5857 adds:
5858
5859 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5860
5861 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5862
5863 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5864
586563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5866 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5867 not considered personal.
5868
586964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5870
587165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5872
587366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5874
587567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5876 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5877 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5878 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5879 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5880 header lines, and spool format errors.
5881
588268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5883 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5884 for more flexibility.
5885
588669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5887 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5888 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5889
589070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5891 Sabourenkov.
5892
589371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5894 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5895 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5896 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5897 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5898 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5899 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5900 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5901 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5902
590372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5904 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5905 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5906 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5907 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5908 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5909 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5910
591173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5912 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5913 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5914
591574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5916 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5917 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5918 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5919 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5920 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5921 instead of killing the process with assert().
5922
592375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5924 than Unicode encoding.
5925
592676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5927 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5928 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5929 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5930
593177. Added process_log_path.
5932
593378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5934 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5935
593679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5937 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5938
593980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5940 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5941 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5942
594381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5944 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5945 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5946 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5947 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5948 were applied:
5949
5950 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5951 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5952 as invalid.
5953
595482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5955 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5956 they will be used during message reception.
5957
5958
5959Exim version 4.20
5960-----------------
5961
5962The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5963
5964****