Bugtrack 1283 - Spec typo fix.
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.81
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
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41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
42
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43JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
44
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45JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
46
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47PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
48
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49NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
50 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 51
585121e2 52JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 53
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54PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
55
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56PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
57 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
58
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59JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
60 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
61 "acl = name arg..."
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63JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
64
b1770b6e 65Exim version 4.80
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67
68PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
69 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
70 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
71
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72NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
73
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74NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
75 improved.
76
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77NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
78
c1e794ba 79PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 80
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81PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
82
83PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
84 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
85
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86PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
87 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
88
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89PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
90 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
91
f1e05cc7 92PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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93 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
94 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 95
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96PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
97
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98PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
99 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
100
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101PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
102
c45dd180 103PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 104
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105PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
106 non-compliant senders.
107 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
108
eae0036b 109NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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110 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
111 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
112
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113PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
114 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
115 in spool file corruption.
116
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117PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
118 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
119 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
120 "Got SSL error 2".
121
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122TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
123 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
124 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
125
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126JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
127 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
128
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129JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
130
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131PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
132 diagnostics.
133 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
134
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135PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
136 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
137 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
138
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139PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
140 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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141 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
142 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 143
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144PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
145 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
146
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147PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
148 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
149 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
150 resolver implementation change.
151
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152PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
153 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
154
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155PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
156
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157PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
158
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159PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
160 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
161
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162PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
163 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
164
9e45c72b 165JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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166 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
167
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168PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
169 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
170 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
171 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 172 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 173
53947857 174PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 175
eae0036b 176PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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177 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
178 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 179
9e45c72b 180JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 181
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182PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
183 read-only, out of scope).
184 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
185
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186PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
187 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
188 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
189 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
190
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191PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
192
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193PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
194 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
195 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
196 real issues in debug logging.
197
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198PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
199 assignment on my part. Fixed.
200
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201PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
202 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
203 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
204
205PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
206 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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207 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
208 problems.
3375e053 209
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210PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
211 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
212
57eb9e91 213PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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214 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
215 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
216 needs to override this, it can.
217
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218PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
219 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
220 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
221
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222PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
223 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
224 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
225 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
226
3ecab157 227PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
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230Exim version 4.77
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232
233PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
234 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
235
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236TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
237
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238TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
239 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 240
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241TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
242 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
243
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244TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
245 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
246 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
247
248 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
249 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
250 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
251 not safe for signals.
252
253 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
254 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
255 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
256 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
257 exiwhat.
258
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259TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
260
261 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
262 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
263 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
264 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
265 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
266
267 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
268 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
269 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
270 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
271 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
272 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
273
274 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
275 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
276 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
277 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
278
279 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
280 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
281 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
282 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
283
284 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
285 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
286 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
287 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
288 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
289 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
290 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
291 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
292 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
293
294 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
295 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
296 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
297 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
298
299 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
300 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
301 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
302 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
303 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
304 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
305 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
306 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
307 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
308 details in the main documentation.
309
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310TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
311
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312TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
313
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314TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
315 repository when doing development or release builds.
316
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317PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
318 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 319
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320PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
321 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
322 Bugzilla 97.
323
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324PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
325
9e949f00 326PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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327 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
328
329PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
330 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 331
555ae6af 332PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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333 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
334
335PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
336 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 337
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338PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
339 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
340
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341PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
342 Bugzilla 1156.
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343 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
344 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 345
d6cc7c78 346PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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347 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
348 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
349
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350PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
351
3399bb60 352PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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353
354PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
355 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
356
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358Exim version 4.76
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360
361PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
362
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363PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
364 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
365
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366PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
367
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368PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
369
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370PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
371 Bugzilla 1098.
372
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373PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
374 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 375
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376TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
377 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
378
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379PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
380 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
381
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382PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
383 Bugzilla 1104.
384
c8d52a00 385TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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386 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
387
388TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
389 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
390 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
391 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
392
393PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
394 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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397Exim version 4.75
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399
4c9ef03a 400NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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401 Bugzilla 1073
402
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403TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
404 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
405 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
406
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407TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
408 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
409
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410PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
411 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
412 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
413
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414PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
415 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
416
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417PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
418 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
419
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420NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
421 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
422
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423NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
424 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
425
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426PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
427 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 428
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429NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
430 Fixes bug 943.
431
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432PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
433 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
434
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435PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
436 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
437
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438PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
439 SQL string expansion failure details.
440 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
441
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442PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
443 Patch from Simon Arlott.
444
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445PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
446 extern declarations in function scope.
447 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
448
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449PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
450 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
451 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
452 a kernel bug).
453
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454PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
455 Patch from Mark Zealey.
456
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457PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
458 Patch from Mark Zealey.
459
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460PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
461 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
462
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463PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
464 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
465
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466NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
467 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
468 Dennis Davis.
469
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470PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
471
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472PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
473
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474NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
475 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 476
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477TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
478 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
479
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483
484TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
485 consequences so log it to the panic log.
486
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487TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
488 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
489
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490TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
491
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492DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
493 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
494 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
495
496PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
497 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
498 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
499
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500PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
501 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
502 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
503 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
504
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505PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
506 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
507 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
508 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
509
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510PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
511 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
512 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
513 arbitrary files.
514
c0886197
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515PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
516 (Wolfgang Breyha)
517
b7487bce
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518PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
519 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
520 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
521 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
522 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
523
8c07b69f 524
97fd1e48 525Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 526-----------------
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527
528PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
529 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
530 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
531
6901c596
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532PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
533 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
534
a8c8d6b5
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535JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
536
77bb000f
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537PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
538
a29e5231
PP
539PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
540
ec5a0394 541PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 542
55c75993
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543PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
544
453a6645 545PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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546 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
547 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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548 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
549
8544e77a
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550PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
551 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
552 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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553 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
554 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 555
83e029d5
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556PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
557
ed7f7860
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558PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
559
7d9f747b
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560PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
561
4b2241d2
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562PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
563
10385c15
PP
564PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
565
dbc4b90d
PP
566PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
567
532be449
PP
568PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
569
6a8de854 570PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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571 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
572 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 573
5dc43717
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574JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
575
576JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
577 "exim" to be used
55c75993 578
3346ab01
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579PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
580 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
581
491fab4c
PP
582PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
583 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
584 Notification from John Horne.
585
13eb9497
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586PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
587 compatible.
588
589PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
590 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
591 it normally works.
592
7f36d675
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593DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
594 access.
595
c1d94452
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596DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
597 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
598 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
599
e2f5dc15
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600DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
601 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
602 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
603 configuration file.
604
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605DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
606 option (effectively making it always true).
607
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608DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
609 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
610
fa32850b
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611DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
612 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
613
79d4bc3d
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614PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
615 run-time user, instead of root.
616
43236f35 617PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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618 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
619
fb08281f
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620DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
621 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
622 arguments.
3346ab01 623
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624DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
625 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
626 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
627
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628DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
629
57730b52
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630NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
631
66581d1e 632
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633Exim version 4.72
634-----------------
635
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636JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
637 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
638 typos
465e92cf 639
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640JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
641 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
642 (Finput)
edae0343 643
9bd3e22c
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644NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
645 Patch from Alain Williams
646
bb576ff7
NM
647NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
648
5a1a5845
NM
649NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
650 Patch from Andreas Metzler
651
981a9fad
NM
652NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
653 Patch from Kirill Miazine
654
7fc497ee
NM
655NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
656
1a41defa
JJ
657JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
658
a466095c 659NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 660 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 661
94a6bd0b
NM
662TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
663
664TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
665
666MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
667 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
668 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
669
c1b141a8
NM
670NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
671 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 672
b26eacf1 673NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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674 Patch by Simon Arlott
675
179c5980 676PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 677 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 678
9bd3e22c 679
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680Exim version 4.71
681-----------------
682
7d9f747b 683TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 684
f013fb92
NM
685NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
686
0eb8eedd
NM
687NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
688
663ee6d9
NM
689NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
690
177ebd9b
NM
691NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
692
7c6d71af 693
210f147e
NM
694Exim version 4.70
695-----------------
696
cdd3bb85 697TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 698 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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699
700TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
701 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 702 Hirsch).
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703
704TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
705 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 706 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
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707
708TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
709 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
710
210f147e
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711NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
712 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
713 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
714 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
715
deafd5b3
NM
716NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
717 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 718 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 719
089793a4
TF
720TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
721
5f16ca82
TF
722TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
723
dae9d94e 724NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 725 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 726
7d9f747b 727NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 728
06864c44
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729TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
730 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
731 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
732 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
733
65a7d8c3 734NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 735 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 736
23510047 737TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 738
7d9f747b 739NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 740
7d8eec3a 741NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 742 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 743
89dec7b6
TF
744TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
745 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 746
a99de90c
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747TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
748 that they are available at delivery time.
749
e2803e40
TF
750TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
751
7199e1ee
TF
752TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
753 incoming_port log selectors.
754
e276e04b
TF
755TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
756 setting expands to an empty string.
757
ce552449 758NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 759 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 760
e765a0f1 761NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 762 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 763
4f054c63 764NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 765 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 766
7d9f747b
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767NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
768 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 769
7d9f747b
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770NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
771 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 772
b52bc06e 773NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 774 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 775
447de4b0
NM
776NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
777
4c69d561 778NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 779 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 780
d5c39246 781NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 782 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 783
0b23848a
TK
784TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
785
8f3414a1 786NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 787 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 788
fb6f955d
NM
789NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
790
791NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 792
7d9f747b
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793NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
794 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 795
7d9f747b
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796NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
797 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 798
7d9f747b
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799NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
800 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 801
7d9f747b
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802NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
803 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 804
7d9f747b
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805NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
806 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 807
7d9f747b
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808NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
809 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 810
7d9f747b
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811NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
812 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 813
7d9f747b 814NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 815 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 816
7d9f747b 817NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 818
7d9f747b
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819NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
820 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 821
7d9f747b 822NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 823
7d9f747b 824NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 825
7d9f747b 826NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 827
7d9f747b 828NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 829
17792b53 830NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 831 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 832
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833NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
834 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 835
91576cec 836NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 837 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 838
7d9f747b
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839NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
840 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 841
7d9f747b 842NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 843
7d9f747b 844NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 845
7d9f747b 846NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 847
7d9f747b 848NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 849
deafd5b3 850
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851Exim version 4.69
852-----------------
853
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854TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
855 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
856 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
857
858 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
859 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
860 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
861 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
862 build errors in sieve.c.
863
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864NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
865 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
866 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
867
f13cddcb
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868SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
869
7d9f747b 870NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 871
7d9f747b 872NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 873
7d9f747b 874NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
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875
876
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877Exim version 4.68
878-----------------
879
880PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
881
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882PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
883 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
884 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
885 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
886 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
887 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
888 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
889 for iplsearch lookups.
890
891 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
892 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
893 previously such lookups could never work.
894
895 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
896 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
897 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
898
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899TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
900 version.
901
0806a9c5
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902MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
903 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
904 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
905 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
906 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
907 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
908
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909TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
910 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
911
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912MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
913 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
914 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
915 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
916 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
917 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
918
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919PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
920 local_scan API.
921
93655c46
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922PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
923
6c512171
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924PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
925 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
926 encrypted.
927
928PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
929 by clients under certain conditions.
930
aa6dc513
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931PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
932 "_responses" off the end of the name.
933
a96603a0
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934PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
935
8f240103
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936PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
937 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
938
939PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
940
d677b2f2
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941PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
942
d52120f2
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943PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
944
64f2600a
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945PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
946 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
947
8669f003
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948PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
949
a4dc33a8
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950PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
951 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
952
d6a60c0f
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953PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
954
8f128379
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955PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
956
8932dffe
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957PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
958 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
959 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
960 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 961
ddea74fa 962PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
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963 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
964 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
965
ddea74fa 966PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
967 and InterBase are left for another time.)
968
ddea74fa
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969PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
970
ce9f225c
PH
971PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
972
19897d52
PH
973PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
974
bc64a74d
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975PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
976 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
977 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
978
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980Exim version 4.67
981-----------------
982
22ad45c9
MH
983MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
984 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
985 Jan Srzednicki.
986
b4ed4da0
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987PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
988 issue a MAIL command.
989
431b7361
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990PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
991
992 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
993
994 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
995 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
996 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
997 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
998 item. This has been fixed.
999
1000PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1001 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1002
83da1223
PH
1003PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1004 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1005
54fc8428
PH
1006PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1007 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1008 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1009
34c5e8dd
SC
1010SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1011
bbe15da8
PH
1012PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1013 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1014 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1015 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1016 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1017
0e8a9471
MH
1018MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1019 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1020 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1021
f0872424
PH
1022PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1023 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1024 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1025 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1026
b01dd148
PH
1027PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1028
6bf342e1
PH
1029PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1030
273f34d0
PH
1031PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1032 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1033 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1034 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1035 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1036
cf8b11a5
PH
1037PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1038
41c7c167
PH
1039PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1040 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1041 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1042 values).
1043
9c57cbc0
PH
1044PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1045
f3f065bb
PH
1046PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1047
047bdd8c
PH
1048PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1049
0ce9abe6
PH
1050PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1051
0e22dfd1
PH
1052PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1053
4c590bd1
PH
1054PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1055 no_callout_flush is set.
1056
09945f1e
PH
1057PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1058 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1059 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1060 fixed.
1061
c51b8e75
PH
1062PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1063
e28326d8
PH
1064PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1065 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1066 other ACL rejections are.
1067
75b1493f
PH
1068PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1069 with slight modification.
1070
7c5214ec
PH
1071PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1072 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1073
4311097e
PH
1074PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1075 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1076 connection.
1077
29f89cad
PH
1078PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1079 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1080
5e687460
SC
1081SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1082
c3611384
PH
1083PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1084 expansion side effects.
1085
5a11a7b4
PH
1086PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1087 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1088 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1089 be the same.
1090
0e20aff9
MH
1091MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1092 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1093 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1094
ca86f471
PH
1095PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1096 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1097 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1098 were accidentally chopped off.
1099
a14e5636
PH
1100PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1101 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1102 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1103 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1104 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1105 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1106 pipelining has not been advertised.
1107
ec95d1a6
PH
1108PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1109
42855d71
PH
1110PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1111 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1112 This has been fixed.
1113
57c2c631
PH
1114PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1115 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1116 reported on Solaris.
1117
58c01c94
PH
1118PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1119 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1120 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1121 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1122 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1123 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1124 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1125
dee5a20a
PH
1126PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1127 cpus.
1128
d2ee6114
PH
1129PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1130
b2d5182b
PH
1131PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1132
79749a79
PH
1133PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1134 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1135 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1136 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1137 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1138 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1139
c456d9bb
PH
1140PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1141 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1142 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1143 host_all_ignored option.
1144
cd9868ec
PH
1145PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1146 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1147 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1148 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1149 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1150 is what is supposed to happen).
1151
ebeaf996
PH
1152PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1153 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1154 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1155 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1156 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1157 uses the Exim user.
1158
2679d413
PH
1159PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1160 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1161 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1162 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1163 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1164 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1165 users.
1166
84024b72
PH
1167PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1168
8005d38e
SC
1169SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1170 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1171 (Jez Hancock).
1172 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1173 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1174
3298c6c6
SC
1175SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1176
a43a27c5
PH
1177PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1178
58eb016e 1179PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1180 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1181 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1182 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1183 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1184 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1185 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1186 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1187 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1188 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1189 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1190
b43a74ea
PH
1191PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1192 advertised in response to EHLO.
1193
b4ed4da0 1194
5dd1517f
PH
1195Exim version 4.66
1196-----------------
1197
1198PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1199 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1200
1201 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1202 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1203
1204 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1205 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1206 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1207
1208 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1209 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1210 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1211 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1212 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1213
1214
93cfa765
TK
1215Exim version 4.65
1216-----------------
1217
1218TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1219 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1220 versions. (#438)
1221
d6066548
MH
1222MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1223 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1224 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1225
4362ff0d
PH
1226PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1227 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1228 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1229 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1230 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1231 rather than extend the field.
1232
93cfa765 1233
944e9e9c
TF
1234Exim version 4.64
1235-----------------
aa41d2de 1236
21d74bd9
TK
1237TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1238 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1239 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1240 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1241 these files.
1242
1243TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1244 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1245 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1246
1247TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1248 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1249 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1250
1251TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1252 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1253 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1254 in the field name.
1255
2b1c6e3a
PH
1256PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1257 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1258 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1259 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1260 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1261 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1262 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1263 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1264 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1265 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1266 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1267
1f872c80
PH
1268PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1269 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1270
1271PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1272 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1273 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1274 ignores EPIPE as well.
1275
d203e649
PH
1276PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1277 (quoted-printable decoding).
1278
cc2ed8f7 1279PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1280 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1281
ddfcd446
PH
1282PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1283
d45b1de8
PH
1284PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1285
1286PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1287
38a0a95f 1288PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1289 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1290
a2405d83
JJ
1291JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1292 in 4.64-PH/09.
1293
1294JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1295 miscellaneous code fixes
1296
6ea85e9a
PH
1297PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1298 rejections.
1299
26da7e20
PH
1300PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1301 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1302 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1303 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1304 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1305 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1306 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1307 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1308
14aa5a05 1309PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1310 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1311 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1312 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1313 function.
1314 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1315 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1316 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1317 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1318 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1319 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1320 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1321 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1322 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1323
ff75a1f7
PH
1324PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1325 decoding.
1326
e6f6568e
PH
1327PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1328 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1329 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1330 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1331 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1332 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1333 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1334 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1335
d6f6e0dc
PH
1336PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1337 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1338 list.
1339
322050c2
PH
1340PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1341 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1342 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1343 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1344 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1345 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1346 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1347 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1348 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1349 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1350 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1351 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1352 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1353
08955dd3
PH
1354PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1355 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1356 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1357 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1358 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1359 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1360 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1361
1eccaa59
PH
1362PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1363 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1364 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1365 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1366 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1367 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1368 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1369 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1370 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1371 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1372
602e59e5
PH
1373PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1374 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1375 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1376 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1377 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1378
411ef850
PH
1379PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1380 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1381 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1382 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1383 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1384 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1385 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1386
7befa435
PH
1387PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1388 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1389 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1390 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1391 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1392 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1393 been verified.
1394
48da4259 1395PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1396 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1397 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1398 and authorization.)
1399
48da4259
PH
1400PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1401 if any retry times were supplied.
1402
d1d5595c
PH
1403PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1404 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1405 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1406
0ef732d9
PH
1407PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1408
328895cc
PH
1409PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1410
fd700877
PH
1411PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1412 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1413 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1414 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1415 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1416 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1417
8dce1a6f
PH
1418PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1419 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1420
17af4a17
PH
1421PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1422 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1423 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1424
1425PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1426 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1427 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1428 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1429 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1430 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1431 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1432 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1433 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1434
1435 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1436 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1437 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1438 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1439 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1440 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1441 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1442 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1443 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1444
1445 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1446 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1447 hammering the server.
1448
c1114884
PH
1449PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1450 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1451
7a0743eb
PH
1452PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1453
0d85fa3f
PH
1454PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1455 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1456 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1457
1bf43b78
PH
1458PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1459 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1460 one case where this was not true.
1461
520de300
PH
1462PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1463 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1464 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1465 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1466 fails.
1467
48c7f9e2
PH
1468PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1469 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1470 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1471 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1472 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1473 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1474 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1475 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1476 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1477 smtp transport.
1478
99ea1c86
PH
1479PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1480 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1481 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1482 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1483
a2042e78
PH
1484PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1485 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1486
4fbcfc2e
PH
1487PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1488 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1489 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1490
aa41d2de
PH
1491PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1492
af561417
PH
1493PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1494
3cc66b45
PH
1495PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1496
194cc0e4
PH
1497PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1498 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1499 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1500 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1501
a401ddaa
PH
1502PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1503 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1504
4e88a19f
PH
1505PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1506 be meaningful with "accept".
1507
d7d7b289
SC
1508SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1509 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1510
1511SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1512 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1513 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1514
1515SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1516 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1517 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1518 there is data to show.
1519 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1520
1521SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1522 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1523 as well as the number of messages.
1524
1525SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1526 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1527 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1528
1529SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1530 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1531 have a flag are now skipped.
1532
1533SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1534 Added the -emptyok flag.
1535
1536SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1537 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1538
0ea2a468
JJ
1539JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1540 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1541 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1542
1543JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1544 match 4.64-PH/13
1545
1546JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1547 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1548
1549JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1550
1551JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1552 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1553
8a10f5a4
PH
1554PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1555
30e18802
PH
1556PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1557 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1558 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1559 contravention of the specifications.
1560
55728a4f
PH
1561PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1562 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1563 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1564
d7837193
PH
1565PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1566 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1567 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1568
87054a31
PH
1569PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1570
ea2c01d2
MH
1571MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1572 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1573 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1574 some point in the past.
1575
e4fa6968
PH
1576PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1577 transport during callout processing was broken.
1578
56f5d9bd
PH
1579PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1580 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1581
922e1c28
PH
1582PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1583 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1584
21eb6e72
PH
1585PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1586 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1587
a0540757
PH
1588PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1589
944e9e9c 1590
478be7b0
SC
1591Exim version 4.63
1592-----------------
1593
1594SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1595 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1596
1597SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1598 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1599 there is data to show.
1600 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1601
1602SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1603 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1604
2b965a65
TF
1605TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1606 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1607
45b91596
PH
1608TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1609 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1610
c59f5781
TF
1611TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1612 submissions from trusted users.
1613
90fc3069
TF
1614TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1615 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1616
6083aca0
TF
1617TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1618 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1619 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1620 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1621 there is now a framework to start from.
1622
765b530f
PH
1623PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1624 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1625 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1626
4e167a8c
PH
1627PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1628
4608d683
PH
1629PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1630
b8dc3e4a
PH
1631PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1632
5418e93b
PH
1633PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1634 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1635 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1636
b4a9bda2
PH
1637PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1638 libradius.
1639
45b91596
PH
1640PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1641 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1642 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1643
5547e2c5
PH
1644PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1645 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1646 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1647 its arguments.
1648
dbcef0ea
PH
1649PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1650 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1651 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1652 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1653 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1654
25257489
PH
1655PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1656 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1657
c816d124
PH
1658PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1659
a9ccd69a
PH
1660PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1661 operations in malware.c.
1662
75fa1910
PH
1663PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1664 signatures.
1665
a7d7aa58
PH
1666PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1667 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1668 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1669 all.
1670
42119b09
PH
1671PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1672 statements to "add_header".
1673
41609df5
PH
1674PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1675 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1676
a5bd321b
PH
1677PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1678 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1679 latter.
1680
e85a7ad5 1681PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1682 so that it is now:
1683
e85a7ad5
PH
1684 ${if or { \
1685 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1686 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1687 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1688 }{no}{yes}}
1689
e85a7ad5
PH
1690 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1691 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1692
d8fe1c03
PH
1693PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1694 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1695
16282d2b
PH
1696PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1697 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1698 any possible encoding problems.
1699
35d40a98
PH
1700PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1701 but not after initializing Perl.
1702
034d99ab
PH
1703PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1704 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1705 apparently, which is not desirable.
1706
6ec97b1b
PH
1707PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1708 queries.
1709
e22ca4ac
JJ
1710JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1711 --not options
1712
1713JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1714
33d73e3b
PH
1715PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1716 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1717 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1718 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1719
9ecb03f3
PH
1720PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1721 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1722 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1723
084efe8d
PH
1724PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1725 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1726 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1727 0.12.
1728
366fc9f0
PH
1729PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1730 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1731 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1732 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1733 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1734
c59f5781 1735
c887c79e
TF
1736Exim version 4.62
1737-----------------
1738
1739TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1740 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1741
1cce3af8
PH
1742PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1743 patch).
1744
afb3eaaf
PH
1745PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1746 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1747 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1748 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1749 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1750 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1751 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1752 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1753 451 error is used.
1754
e173618b
PH
1755PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1756
dd16e114
PH
1757PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1758 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1759 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1760
f7fd3850
PH
1761PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1762 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1763 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1764 odd errors.
1765
d87df92c
PH
1766PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1767 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1768
7e9f683d
PH
1769PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1770 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1771 option (which defaults to 0600).
1772
bfad5236
PH
1773PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1774
01c490df
PH
1775PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1776 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1777 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1778 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1779 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1780 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1781 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1782
d6629cdc
PH
1783PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1784
1cce3af8 1785
214e2000
PH
1786Exim version 4.61
1787-----------------
1788
1789PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1790 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1791 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1792 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1793 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1794 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1795 addresses as local.
1796
f9daeae0
PH
1797PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1798 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1799
7e66e54d
PH
1800PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1801
c8ea1597
PH
1802PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1803 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1804 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1805 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1806 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1807 grumble.
1808
911f6fde
PH
1809PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1810 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1811
47ca6d6c
PH
1812PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1813 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1814 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1815 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1816 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1817
ed0e9820
PH
1818PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1819 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1820 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1821 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1822
eff37e47
PH
1823PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1824 be the same on different OS.
1825
1921d2ea
PH
1826PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1827 testing.
1828
b3f69ca8
JJ
1829JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1830 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1831
1832JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1833 in 4.61-PH/06
1834
424a1c63
PH
1835PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1836 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1837 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1838 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1839 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1840 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1841 bounce message.
1842
7a100415
PH
1843PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1844 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1845 when Exim was called.
1846
19b9dc85
PH
1847PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1848 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1849
309bd837
PH
1850PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1851 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1852 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1853 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1854
59e82a2a
PH
1855PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1856 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1857 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1858 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1859 changes:
1860
1861 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1862 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1863 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1864
1865 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1866 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1867 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1868
9edc04ce
PH
1869PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1870 feature).
1871
1349e1e5
PH
1872PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1873 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1874 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1875 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1876 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1877 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1878 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1879 values from the SRV records were lost.
1880
ea49d0e1
PH
1881PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1882 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1883 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1884
064a94c9
PH
1885PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1886 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1887 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1888
727071f8
PH
1889PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1890 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1891 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1892 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1893 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1894 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1895 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1896 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1897 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1898 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1899
f78eb7c6
PH
1900PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1901 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1902 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1903
21c28500
PH
1904PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1905 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1906
1907PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1908 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1909 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1910 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1911 is given.
1912
1688f43b
PH
1913PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1914 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1915 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1916
1917PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1918 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1919 PH/23 above applies.
1920
9675b384
PH
1921PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1922 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1923 (for which there is an explicit test).
1924
6a3f1455
PH
1925PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1926
dac79d3e
PH
1927PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1928 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1929 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1930 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1931 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1932
5977a0b3
PH
1933PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1934 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1935 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1936 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1937
c91535f3
PH
1938PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1939 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1940 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1941
0d46a8c8
PH
1942PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1943
278c6e6c
PH
1944PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1945
2cbb4081
PH
1946PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1947 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1948 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1949
3eef829e
PH
1950PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1951 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1952 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1953 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1954 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1955
1ab95fa6
PH
1956PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1957 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1958 the message gets confusing).
1959
230205fc
PH
1960PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1961 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1962 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1963 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1964
75e0e026
PH
1965PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1966 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1967 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1968 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1969 same order.
1970
1971PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1972 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1973 the different processes.
1974
145396a6
PH
1975PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1976
3cd34f13
PH
1977PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1978
11121d3d
JJ
1979JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1980 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1981
1982JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1983 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1984
1985JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1986 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1987 messages matching specified criteria.
1988
8def5aaf
PH
1989PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1990
929ba01c
PH
1991PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1992 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1993
2632889e
PH
1994PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1995 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1996 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1997 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1998 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1999 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2000 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2001 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2002 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2003 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2004
944a9c55
PH
2005PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2006 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2007 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2008
4a23603b
PH
2009PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2010
4730f942
PH
2011PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2012 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2013 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2014 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2015 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2016 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2017 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2018 the variable.
2019
30dba1e6
PH
2020PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2021 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2022
382afc6b
PH
2023PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2024
a86229cf
PH
2025PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2026
50c99ba6
PH
2027PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2028
d35e429d
PH
2029PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2030 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2031 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2032 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2033 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2034 size of the count of files.
2035
f90d018c
PH
2036PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2037
75def545
PH
2038PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2039 used in LMTP mode:
2040
2041 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2042 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2043 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2044 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2045
2046 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2047 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2048 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2049
2050PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2051 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2052 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2053 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2054 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2055
c46782ef
PH
2056PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2057 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2058
71fafd95
PH
2059PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2060 will now be deprecated.
2061
2c5db4fd
PH
2062PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2063
9cf6b11a
JJ
2064JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2065 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2066 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2067
2068JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2069 with very large, slow to parse queues
2070
2071JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2072
2073JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2074
898d150f
PH
2075PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2076 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2077 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2078 SMTP output lines.
2079
46218253
PH
2080PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2081 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2082 Sieve code now uses this.
2083
e97957bc
PH
2084PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2085 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2086
81e509d7
PH
2087PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2088 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2089
3d240ff7
PH
2090PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2091
b37c4101
PH
2092PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2093 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2094 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2095 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2096 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2097
79378e0f
PH
2098PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2099 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2100 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2101 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2102
e49c7bb4
PH
2103PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2104
d114ec46
PH
2105PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2106
f3d7df6c
PH
2107PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2108 is preferred over IPv4.
2109
715ab376
PH
2110PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2111 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2112 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2113 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2114 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2115 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2116 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2117
6b31b150
PH
2118PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2119 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2120 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2121
2122PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2123
d515a917
PH
2124PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2125 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2126 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2127 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2128 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2129 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2130 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2131 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2132 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2133 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2134 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2135
9b8fadde
PH
2136PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2137 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2138 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2139
214e2000 2140
5de37277
PH
2141Exim version 4.60
2142-----------------
2143
cc38ddbf
PH
2144PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2145
2146 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2147 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2148
2149 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2150 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2151 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2152
72fdd6ae
PH
2153PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2154
2155 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2156 not a single digit.
2157
2158 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2159 string.
2160
2161 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2162 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2163 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2164 silly things.
2165
2166 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2167 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2168
2169 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2170 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2171
cb741023
PH
2172PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2173 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2174 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2175
f174f16e
PH
2176PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2177 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2178
c25242d7
PH
2179PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2180 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2181
2182 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2183
2184 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2185 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2186 this:
2187
2188 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2189
82c19f95
PH
2190PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2191 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2192 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2193 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2194 identical. For example:
2195
2196 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2197
2198 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2199 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2200 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2201
d7ffbc12
PH
2202PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2203 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2204 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2205 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2206
9f526266
PH
2207PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2208 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2209 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2210 message.
2211
87fcc8b9
PH
2212PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2213
2214 o fixes some comments
2215 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2216 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2217 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2218 and documents the missing references header update
2219
2220 and most important:
2221
2222 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2223 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2224 result)
2225
456682f5
PH
2226PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2227 Electronic Mail") by including:
2228
2229 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2230
2231 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2232 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2233 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2234 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2235 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2236
2237 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2238
2239 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2240
2241 The auto-replied keyword:
2242
2243 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2244 message by an automatic process,
2245
2246 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2247
2248 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2249 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2250
2251 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2252 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2253 other messages.
2254
3e46c1aa
PH
2255PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2256 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2257
49826d12
PH
2258PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2259
eba0c039
PH
2260PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2261 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2262 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2263
a0d6ba8a
PH
2264PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2265 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2266 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2267
f0917727
PH
2268PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2269 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2270 and treats the condition as false.
2271
096fee00
PH
2272PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2273
024bd3c2
PH
2274PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2275 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2276 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2277 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2278 not changing the active code.
2279
2280 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2281 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2282
2283 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2284 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2285
df199fec
PH
2286PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2287 (Bugzilla #53).
2288
d27f1df3
PH
2289PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2290 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2291 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2292 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2293 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2294 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2295 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2296 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2297 the text comparison.
2298
96776534
PH
2299PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2300 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2301 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2302 The same fix has been applied.
2303
5de37277 2304
9a799bc0
PH
2305Exim version 4.54
2306-----------------
2307
2308PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2309 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2310 It now does.
2311
99a4b039
PH
2312PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2313 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2314
2315PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2316
4b233853
PH
2317PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2318 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2319 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2320 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2321 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2322
8857ccfd
PH
2323TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2324 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2325 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2326 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2327 or /domain=).
2328
433a2980
PH
2329PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2330 testing suite.
2331
3e46c1aa 2332
9a799bc0 2333
e3a311ba
TK
2334Exim version 4.53
2335-----------------
2336
2337TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2338 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2339
13b685f9
PH
2340PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2341
395ff96d
PH
2342PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2343
5b68f6e4
PH
2344PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2345 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2346 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2347
1ab52c69
PH
2348PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2349 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2350 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2351
b07e6aa3
PH
2352PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2353 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2354 operating systems.
2355
254e032f
PH
2356PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2357 ${stat: expansion item.
2358
3af76a81
PH
2359PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2360 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2361
2548ba04
PH
2362PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2363 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2364 file for comments.
2365
b6c6011d
PH
2366PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2367
cf39cf57
PH
2368PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2369 setting.
2370
f1513293
PH
2371PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2372 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2373
727549a4
PH
2374TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2375
af46795e
PH
2376PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2377 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2378 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2379 the end of the subprocess.
2380
d7b47fd0
PH
2381PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2382 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2383 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2384 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2385 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2386
ee744174
JJ
2387JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2388
b582ab87
PH
2389TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2390
41a13e0a
PH
2391PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2392 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2393
f625cc5a
PH
2394PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2395
2396PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2397
21f7af35
PH
2398PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2399 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2400 HP-UX compiler.
2401
31480e42
PH
2402PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2403
2d280592
PH
2404PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2405 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2406 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2407
7cd1141b
PH
2408PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2409 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2410
2411PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2412 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2413
750af86e
PH
2414PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2415 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2416
2417 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2418 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2419
2420 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2421 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2422 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2423 contributed by a Radius user.
2424
2425PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2426 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2427
4304270b
TK
2428TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2429 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2430
750af86e
PH
2431PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2432 available.
2433
64ffc24f
PH
2434PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2435 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2436 received.
2437
5dd9625b
PH
2438PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2439 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2440 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2441 header lines when this was not necessary.
2442
5591031b
PH
2443PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2444
ba18e66a
PH
2445PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2446 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2447 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2448 exists".
2449
9cec981f
PH
2450PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2451 -bV or -d is used.
2452
aa2b5c79
PH
2453PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2454 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2455 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2456 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2457
48a53b7f
PH
2458PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2459
1c59d63b
PH
2460PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2461
671012da
TK
2462TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2463
1509d3a8
PH
2464PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2465
2466PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2467 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2468 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2469 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2470 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2471 settings.
2472
2473PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2474
2fe1a124
PH
2475PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2476 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2477 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2478 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2479 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2480 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2481 which is clearly wrong.
2482
8800895a
PH
2483PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2484
ccfdb010
PH
2485PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2486 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2487 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2488 subsequently added.
2489
1130bfb0
PH
2490PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2491 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2492
ebcb507f
PH
2493PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2494
c35e155c
PH
2495PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2496 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2497
95d1f782
PH
2498PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2499 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2500
fd6de02e
PH
2501PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2502 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2503
58de37c5
PH
2504PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2505 recipients, not senders.
2506
261cf466
TF
2507TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2508 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2509
3ee512ff
PH
2510PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2511
e08c430f
PH
2512PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2513
bef5a11f
PH
2514PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2515 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2516 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2517 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2518
7546de58
TF
2519TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2520
e5d5a95f
TF
2521TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2522 clock is set back in time.
2523
2e88a017
TF
2524TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2525 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2526
a5f65aa4
TF
2527TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2528 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2529
e7726cbf
PH
2530PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2531 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2532 (see PH/47 above).
2533
a7fdad5b
TF
2534TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2535 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2536 header rewrites.
2537
6af56900
PH
2538PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2539 type ("H").
2540
0925ede6
PH
2541PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2542
66afa403
TF
2543TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2544 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2545 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2546
0154e85a
TF
2547TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2548 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2549 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2550 helo verification defer as a failure.
2551
16f12c76
PH
2552PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2553 actual error message.
2554
bbe902f0 2555
e5a9dba6
PH
2556Exim version 4.52
2557-----------------
2558
2559TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2560
22c3b60b
PH
2561PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2562 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2563 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2564 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2565
06a9b4b5
PH
2566TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2567
c1ac6996
PH
2568PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2569 can still be requested.
2570
9c7a242c
PH
2571PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2572 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2573 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2574 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2575
87ba3f5f
PH
2576TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2577 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2578 circumstances, but probably never did.
2579
2580PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2581 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2582 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2583 in the header line.
2584
29aba418
TF
2585TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2586
fe0dab11
TF
2587TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2588 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2589
11d337a4
TK
2590TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2591
2592TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2593
415c8f3b
PH
2594PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2595 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2596 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2597 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2598 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2599 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2600
958541e9
PH
2601PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2602 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2603 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2604 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2605 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2606 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2607
c206415f
TK
2608TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2609 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2610
2a4be8f9
PH
2611PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2612 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2613
1cba11c5
SC
2614SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2615 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2616
2617SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2618
2619SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2620
2621SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2622
2623SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2624
2625SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2626
2627SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2628
1005d00e
TK
2629TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2630
2631TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2632 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2633 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2634
2635TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2636 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2637 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2638 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2639
9b4768fa
PH
2640PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2641 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2642 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2643
2644PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2645 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2646 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2647 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2648
0d7eb84a
PH
2649PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2650 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2651 to be made).
2652
2653PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2654 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2655 should work with maildirs and everything.
2656
40727bee
TK
2657TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2658 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2659
554d2369
TF
2660TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2661 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2662
1f922db1
PH
2663PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2664 function for BDB 4.3.
2665
ef213c3b
PH
2666PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2667
8ac170f3
PH
2668PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2669 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2670 involved.
2671
b1c749bb
PH
2672PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2673 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2674 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2675 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2676 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2677 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2678
4aac9b49
PH
2679PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2680 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2681 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2682 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2683 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2684 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2685 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2686 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2687
294520c8
TK
2688TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2689 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2690 details.
2691
5bd022fe
PH
2692PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2693 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2694
90e9ce59
PH
2695PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2696 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2697 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2698 test. It is now used for both.
2699
5ea81592
PH
2700PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2701 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2702 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2703 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2704 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2705 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2706
c6c2dc1d
PH
2707PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2708 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2709 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2710 string_vformat().
2711
fffffe4c
PH
2712PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2713 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2714 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2715
9a26b6b2
PH
2716PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2717 experimental DomainKeys support:
2718
2719 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2720 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2721 the control was given.
2722
2723 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2724
4aee0225
PH
2725PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2726
32d668a5
PH
2727PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2728
8187c3f3
PH
2729PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2730 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2731 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2732 db.h files).
2733
ff790e47 2734PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2735 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2736 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2737 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2738 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2739 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2740 course.
ff790e47 2741
5417f6d1
PH
2742PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2743 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2744 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2745 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2746 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2747 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2748
59cf8544
PH
2749PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2750 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2751 do -d+all out of habit.
2752
e7ad8a65
PH
2753PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2754 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2755 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2756
ade42478
PH
2757PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2758 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2759 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2760 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2761 record types that Exim uses.
2762
182ad5cf
PH
2763PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2764 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2765 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2766 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2767 non-existent file that was broken.
2768
b0d9fc80
TK
2769TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2770 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2771
2772TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2773 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2774 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2775
2776TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2777
47c7a64a
PH
2778PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2779 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2780 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2781 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2782 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2783 same time.
2784
a388bce4
SC
2785SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2786 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2787 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2788 at a slight CPU cost.
2789
2790SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2791 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2792
2793SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2794 by Marc Sherman.
2795
0793e4ed
SC
2796SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2797
c58b88df
PH
2798PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2799 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2800
e7ad8a65 2801
7982096b
PH
2802Exim version 4.51
2803-----------------
2804
1a46a8c5
PH
2805TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2806 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2807
2f079f46 2808TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2809
2810TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2811
2812PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2813 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2814
2815PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2816 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2817 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2818 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2819 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2820 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2821 file.
2822
2823PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2824 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2825 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2826 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2827 these two options.
2828
2829PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2830 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2831 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2832 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2833 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2834 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2835 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2836 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2837
2838PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2839 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2840
2841PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2842 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2843 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2844 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2845 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2846 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2847
2848PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2849 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2850 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2851 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2852
2853PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2854 Finch).
2855
2856PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2857 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2858
49c2d5ea
PH
2859PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2860 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2861 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2862 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2863 message.
49c2d5ea 2864
bf759a8b
PH
2865PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2866
83364d30
PH
2867PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2868 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2869
7999bbd7
PH
2870PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2871 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2872 to what was transported.)
2873
7dbf77c9
PH
2874TF/01 Added $received_time.
2875
74e0617f
PH
2876PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2877 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2878 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2879 spamd_address settings.
2880
2f079f46
PH
2881PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2882 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2883 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2884 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2885 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2886
8c841523
PH
2887PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2888
7766a4f0
PH
2889PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2890 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2891 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2892 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2893 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2894
8b417f2c
PH
2895PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2896 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2897
901f42cb
PH
2898PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2899 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2900 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2901 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2902 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2903 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2904 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2905 for failure.
2906
f9b9210e
PH
2907PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2908 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2909 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2910 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2911 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2912 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2913 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2914 "input=".
2915
54cdb463
PH
2916PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2917
cf00dad6
PH
2918PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2919 driver and ACL definitions.
2920
acb1b346
PH
2921PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2922 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2923
c5ddb310
PH
2924PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2925 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2926 understands it better than I do:
2927
2928 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2929 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2930
2931 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2932 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2933 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2934 => three warnings about OTP not working
2935 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2936
2937 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2938 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2939 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2940 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2941 for each call.)
2942 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2943 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2944
2945 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2946 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2947 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2948
31619da6
PH
2949PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2950 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2951 specified.
2952
bebaf0fc
PH
2953PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2954 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2955 "Linux".
2956
475fe28a
PH
2957PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2958 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2959 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2960
2961 warn !verify = sender
2962 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2963
2964 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2965 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2966
7e8bec7a
PH
2967PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2968
2969 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2970 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2971
2972 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2973 nomenclature these days.)
2974
e4a89c47
PH
2975PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2976 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2977
5ca2a9a1
PH
2978PH/30 In these circumstances:
2979 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2980 . First host does not offer TLS;
2981 . First host accepts first address;
2982 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2983 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2984 . Second host accepts second address.
2985 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2986 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2987 address.
7e8bec7a 2988
c688b954
PH
2989PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2990 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2991 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2992 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2993 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2994
fed77020
PH
2995PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2996 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2997
7fe1560f
PH
2998PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2999 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3000
ebb6e6d5
PH
3001PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3002 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3003 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3004
9c4e8f60
PH
3005PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3006 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3007 overlooked.
3008
3009PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3010
d7174846
PH
3011PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3012 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3013 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3014 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3015 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3016 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3017 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3018
3019 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3020 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3021 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3022 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3023 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3024
3025 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3026 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3027 routed further.
3028
cfe75fc3
PH
3029PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3030 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3031 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3032 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3033 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3034 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3035
be22d70e
PH
3036PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3037
0612b098
PH
3038PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3039 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3040 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3041 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3042 printable escape sequences.
3043
2e0c1448
PH
3044PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3045 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3046 body only.
3047
447d236c
PH
3048PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3049 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3050 are as follows:
3051
3052 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3053 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3054 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3055 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3056 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3057
3058 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3059 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3060 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3061
d20976dc
PH
3062PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3063
f656d135
PH
3064PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3065 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3066 play with."
3067
2e2a30b4
PH
3068PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3069 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3070 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3071 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3072 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3073 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3074 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3075 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3076 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3077 the log output.
3078
9176e9f0
PH
3079PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3080 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3081 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3082 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3083 "make".
3084
7982096b 3085
bbe902f0
PH
3086A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3087----------------------------------------
3088
3089Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3090changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3091needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3092in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3093that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3094release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3095from 4.43.
3096
3097I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30984.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3099those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3100historical information.
3101
3102
f7b63901 3103Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3104-----------------
3105
5fe762f6
PH
3106 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3107
139059f6 3108 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3109 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3110
7086e875
PH
3111 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3112 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3113 place.
3114
35af9f61
PH
3115 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3116 filter fails to execute.
3117
b668c215
PH
3118 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3119 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3120 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3121 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3122 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3123
a494b1e1
PH
3124 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3125
3126 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3127 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3128 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3129 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3130
c5fcb476
PH
3131 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3132 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3133 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3134 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3135 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3136
69358f02
PH
3137 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3138
5be20824
PH
313910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3140
eb2c0248
PH
314111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3142 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3143 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3144 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3145
2a3eea10
PH
314612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3147 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3148 sender verification.
3149
315013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3151 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3152
23c7ff99
PH
315314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3154
4deaf07d
PH
315515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3156 connection timeout.
3157
926e1192
PH
315816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3159 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3160
650edc6f
PH
316117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3162 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3163
2c7db3f5
PH
316418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3165 information about exactly what failed.
3166
3d235903
PH
316719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3168
7c7ad977
PH
316920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3170 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3171 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3172
981756db
PH
317321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3174 It is now set to "smtps".
3175
d4eb88df
PH
317622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3177 ignore_target_hosts.
3178
317923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3180 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3181 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3182 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3183 "[x.x.x.x]".
3184
7d468ab8
PH
318524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3186 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3187 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3188
318925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3190 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3191 wake it up if nothing else does.
3192
62c0818f
PH
319326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3194 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3195 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3196 end up negative.
3197
26034054
PH
319827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3199 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3200
af66f652
PH
320128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3202
90af77f4
PH
320329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3204 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3205 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3206 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3207 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3208 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3209 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3210 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3211
d8ef3577
PH
321230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3213 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3214 than one IP address.
3215
5cb8cbc6
PH
321631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3217 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3218 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3219 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3220
14702f5b
PH
322132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3222 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3223 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3224 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3225 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3226 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3227
063b1e99
PH
322833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3229 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3230 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3231 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3232
652e1b65
PH
323334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3234 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3235 respected.
3236
6f0c9a4f
PH
323735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3238 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3239 $sender_host_address.
3240
33397d19
PH
324136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3242 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3243 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3244 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3245 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3246 very small.
3247
7bb56e1f
PH
324837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3249
3250 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3251 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3252
ea3bc19b
PH
3253 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3254 just the host names, not the priorities.
3255
3256 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3257 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3258 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3259
ea3bc19b 3260 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3261 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3262
0bcb2a0e
PH
326338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3264 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3265 domain.
3266
2ac0e484
PH
326739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3268
4e1fde53
PH
326940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3270 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3271
de365ded
PH
327241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3273 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3274 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3275
f05da2e8
PH
327642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3277
d6453af2
PH
327843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3279
f7b63901
PH
328044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3281
328245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3283 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3284 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3285 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3286 because the tests only now provoked it.
3287
a444213a
PH
328846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3289 (this can affect the format of dates).
3290
0ec020ea
PH
329147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3292 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3293 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3294 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3295
b1206957
PH
329648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3297
329849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3299 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3300 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3301 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3302
26dd5a95
PH
330350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3304 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3305 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3306
343b2385
PH
330751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3308 autoreply.
3309
1c5466b9
PH
331052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3311 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3312 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3313 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3314 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3315 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3316 is going on).
3317
55ee9ee3
PH
331853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3319 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3320 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3321 the line.
3322
d38f8232
PH
332354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3324 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3325 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3326
3327 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3328 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3329 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3330 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3331 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3332 so I produce this patch..."
3333
3295e65b
PH
3334 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3335 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3336 is not defined.
3337
7102e136
PH
333855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3339 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3340 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3341 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3342 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3343
3ca0ba97
PH
334456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3345
c2bcbe20
PH
334657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3347 long debug lines gets shown.
3348
18ce445d
PH
334958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3350 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3351
1f5b4c3d
PH
335259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3353
3354 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3355 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3356 of $primary_hostname.
3357
b975ba52
PH
335860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3359 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3360 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3361 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3362 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3363 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3364 by change 4.50/55 above.
3365
3366 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3367 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3368 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3369 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3370 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3371 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3372 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3373
337461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3375 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3376 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3377 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3378
17ffcae7
PH
337962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3380 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3381
d95f9fdb
PH
338263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3383 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3384 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3385 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3386 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3387
86b8287f
PH
338864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3389 This has been fixed.
3390
60dc5e56
PH
339165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3392 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3393 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3394 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3395 the caching.)
3396
533244af
PH
339766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3398
a5a28604
PH
339967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3400 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3401 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3402 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3403
7e634d24
PH
340468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3405 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3406
3e11c26b
PH
340769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3408 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3409 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3410
6729cf78
PH
341170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3412 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3413 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3414 message there.
3415
00f00ca5
PH
341671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3417 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3418 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3419
c9bdd01c
PH
342072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3421 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3422 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3423 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3424
d43194df
PH
342573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3426 during host lookups.
3427
fe5b5d0b
PH
342874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3429 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3430
3431 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3432
76a2d7ba
PH
343375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3434 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3435 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3436 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3437 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3438 background.
3439
344076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3441 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3442
04f7d5b9
PH
344377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3444 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3445 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3446
bc60667e
PH
344778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3448
bb6e88ff
PH
344979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3450 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3451 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3452 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3453 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3454 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3455 process earlier.
3456
1e70f85b
PH
345780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3458 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3459 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3460 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3461 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3462
346381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3464 tables).
3465
4e01f9d6
PH
346682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3467
1ee1cef2
PH
346883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3469 "vacation" handling.
3470
6e2b4ccc
PH
347184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3472 OS variants using glibc.
3473
8e669ac1
PH
347485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3475
495ae4b0 3476
bbe902f0
PH
3477----------------------------------------------------
3478See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3479----------------------------------------------------
3480
3481
3482Exim version 4.44
3483-----------------
3484
3485 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3486 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3487 transport
3488
3489 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3490 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3491 place.
3492
3493 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3494 filter fails to execute.
3495
3496 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3497 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3498 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3499 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3500 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3501
3502 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3503 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3504 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3505 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3506
3507 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3508 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3509 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3510 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3511 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3512
3513 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3514
3515 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3516 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3517 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3518 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3519
3520 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3521 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3522 sender verification.
3523
352410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3525 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3526
352711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3528 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3529
353012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3531 ignore_target_hosts.
3532
353313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3534 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3535 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3536 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3537 "[x.x.x.x]".
3538
353914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3540 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3541 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3542
354315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3544 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3545 wake it up if nothing else does.
3546
354716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3548 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3549 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3550 end up negative.
3551
355217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3553 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3554
ea3a6f44 355518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3556
355719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3558 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3559 empty pattern.
3560
356120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3562 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3563 one IP address.
3564
ea3a6f44
NM
356521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3566 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3567 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3568 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3569 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3570 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3571
ea3a6f44
NM
357222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3573 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3574 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3575
357623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3577 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3578 $sender_host_address.
3579
358024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3581
ea3a6f44
NM
358225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3583 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3584 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3585
358626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3587 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3588
ea3a6f44
NM
358927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3590 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3591
ea3a6f44
NM
359228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3593 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3594 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3595 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3596
359729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3598 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3599 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3600
ea3a6f44
NM
360130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3602 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3603 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3604 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3605
ea3a6f44
NM
360631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3607 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3608 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3609
ea3a6f44
NM
361031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3611 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3612
ea3a6f44
NM
361332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3614 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3615 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3616 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3617 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3618 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3619 is going on).
bbe902f0 3620
ea3a6f44
NM
362133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3622 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3623 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3624 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3625 CAN-2005-0021
3626
ea3a6f44
NM
362734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3628 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3629 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3630 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3631 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3632 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3633 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3634
3635 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3636 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3637 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3638 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3639 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3640 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3641 CAN-2005-0021
3642
ea3a6f44
NM
364335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3644 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3645 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3646 CAN-2005-0022
3647
ea3a6f44
NM
364836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3649 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3650 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3651 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3652 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3653
ea3a6f44
NM
365437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3655 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3656 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3657 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3658 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3659
ea3a6f44
NM
366038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3661 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3662 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3663 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3664 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3665
3666
495ae4b0
PH
3667Exim version 4.43
3668-----------------
3669
3670 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3671 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3672 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3673 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3674 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3675 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3676 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3677
3678 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3679 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3680 the delivery.
3681
3682 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3683
3684 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3685
3686 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3687 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3688 to local_scan().
3689
3690 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3691 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3692 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3693 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3694 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3695
3696 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3697 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3698
3699 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3700
3701 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3702
370310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3704 header_sender only.
3705
370611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3707 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3708
370912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3710 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3711 affecting debugging statements).
3712
371313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3714
371514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3716 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3717 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3718 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3719 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3720 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3721 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3722 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3723 after the received time, and all would be well.
3724
372515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3726 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3727 condition in an expansion string.
3728
372916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3730
373117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3732 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3733 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3734 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3735 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3736 job under whatever limits there are.
3737
373818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3739
374019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3741 space).
3742
374320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3744 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3745 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3746 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3747 return path is set.
3748
374921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3750 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3751 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3752 binary data in such strings.
3753
375422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3755
375623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3757 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3758 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3759 failure, which is pointless.
3760
376124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3762
376325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3764
376526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3766 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3767 Sender: header lines.
3768
376927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3770 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3771 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3772
377328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3774 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3775 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3776 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3777 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3778 happens.
3779
378029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3781 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3782 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3783 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3784 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3785
378630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3787 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3788 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3789 1024.
3790
379131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3792 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3793
379432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3795 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3796
379733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3798
379932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3800
380133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3802
380334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3804 syntax error.
3805
380635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3807
380836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3809
381037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3811 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3812 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3813 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3814
381538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3816 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3817
3818
3819Exim version 4.42
3820-----------------
3821
3822 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3823 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3824 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3825 it was not quoted.
3826 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3827 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3828 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3829 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3830 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3831 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3832
3833 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3834 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3835 verification failure".
3836
3837 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3838 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3839 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3840 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3841
3842 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3843 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3844 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3845 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3846 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3847 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3848 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3849 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3850 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3851 treated as a timeout.
3852
3853 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3854 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3855 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3856 not set for Exim filters).
3857
3858 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3859 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3860 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3861
3862 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3863
3864 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3865 try to make them clearer.
3866
3867 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3868 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3869
3870 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3871
3872 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3873
387410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3875 only the Cygwin environment.
3876
387711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3878 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3879 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3880 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3881 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3882
388312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3884 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3885 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3886 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3887 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3888 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3889 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3890
389113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3892 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3893
389414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3895
3896 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3897 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3898 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3899
3900 To: susanne@some.where
3901
3902 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3903 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3904 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3905 of addresses in From: header lines).
3906
3907 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3908 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3909 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3910
3911 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3912 treated as non-personal.
3913
3914 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3915 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3916
391715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3918
391916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3920
392117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3922 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3923 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3924
392518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3926 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3927
392819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3929 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3930 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3931 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3932 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3933 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3934
393520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3936 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3937 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3938 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3939 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3940 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3941 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3942 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3943
3944 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3945
394621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3947 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3948
394922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3950 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3951 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3952
395323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3954 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3955
395624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3957 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3958 rather than long int.
3959
396025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3961
396226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3963
3964
3965Exim version 4.41
3966-----------------
3967
3968 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3969 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3970 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3971 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3972 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3973 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3974
3975
3976Exim version 4.40
3977-----------------
3978
3979 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3980 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3981
3982 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3983 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3984 socklen_t is defined.
3985
3986 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3987 always exist.
3988
3989 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3990 configured.
3991
3992 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3993 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3994 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3995 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3996 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3997
3998 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3999 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4000 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4001 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4002
4003 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4004 of flapping under certain conditions.
4005
4006 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4007 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4008 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4009
4010 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4011
401210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4013
401411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4015 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4016 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4017 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4018
401912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4020 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4021 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4022 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4023 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4024 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4025 preserved with the message after it was received.
4026
402713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4028 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4029 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4030 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4031 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4032 test suite worked just fine.
4033
403414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4035 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4036 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4037
403815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4039 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4040 string.
4041
404216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4043 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4044 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4045 does not fully solve it.
4046
404717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4048 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4049 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4050 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4051 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4052
405318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4054 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4055 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4056
405719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4058 string, for example:
4059
4060 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4061
4062 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4063 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4064 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4065 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4066 the routers could not see them.
4067
406820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4069 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4070
407121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4072 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4073 output).
4074
407522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4076 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4077 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4078 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4079 that needed quoting.
4080
408123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4082 was not being matched caselessly.
4083
408424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4085 backslashes.
4086
408725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4088 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4089 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4090 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4091 when use_sender is false.
4092
409326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4094
409527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4096
409728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4098
409929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4100 the configuration file.
4101
410230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4103 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4104
410531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4106
410732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4108 bytes in the message body.
4109
411033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4111 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4112 delivery.
4113
411434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4115
411635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4117
411836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4119 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4120 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4121 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4122 another IP address.
4123
4124
4125Exim version 4.34
4126-----------------
4127
4128 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4129 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4130
4131 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4132 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4133 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4134 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4135 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4136
4137 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4138 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4139
4140 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4141 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4142 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4143
4144 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4145 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4146 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4147
4148 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4149 for routers.
4150
4151 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4152 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4153 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4154 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4155 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4156 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4157 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4158
4159
4160Exim version 4.33
4161-----------------
4162
4163 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4164 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4165 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4166 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4167 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4168 default (and expected) setting.
4169
4170 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4171 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4172 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4173 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4174
4175 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4176 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4177
4178 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4179 in domain lists.
4180
4181 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4182 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4183 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4184 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4185 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4186 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4187
4188 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4189 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4190 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4191
4192 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4193 part (NOT match_host).
4194
4195 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4196
4197 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4198 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4199 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4200 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4201 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4202 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4203 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4204 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4205 the same named file.
4206
420710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4208 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4209 when Exim is built.
4210
421111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4212 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4213 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4214 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4215 a host name.
4216
421712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4218 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4219 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4220
422113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4222
422314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4224
422515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4226
422716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4228 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4229
423017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4231 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4232 before starting the TLS session.
4233
423418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4235
423619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4237 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4238
423920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4240 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4241 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4242 colon in the middle).
4243
4244
4245Exim version 4.32
4246-----------------
4247
4248 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4249 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4250 multiple configurations are in use.
4251
4252 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4253 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4254 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4255 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4256 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4257 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4258
4259 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4260 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4261
4262 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4263 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4264 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4265
4266 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4267 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4268 occurs.
4269
4270 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4271 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4272
4273 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4274
4275 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4276 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4277
4278 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4279
4280 -prval:sval
4281
4282 is equivalent to
4283
4284 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4285
4286 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4287 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4288 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4289 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4290 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4291
429210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4293 Exim's behaviour:
4294
4295 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4296 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4297 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4298 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4299 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4300 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4301
4302 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4303 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4304 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4305 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4306 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4307 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4308 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4309 string.
4310
4311 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4312 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4313 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4314 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4315 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4316
431711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4318
431912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4320 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4321 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4322
432313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4324
432514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4326 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4327 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4328 information.
4329
433015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4331 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4332
433316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4334 Three changes have been made:
4335
4336 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4337 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4338 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4339 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4340 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4341
4342 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4343 been restored.
4344
4345 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4346 the modified behaviour.
4347
4348
4349Exim version 4.31
4350-----------------
4351
4352 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4353 Larry Rosenman.
4354
4355 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4356 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4357
4358 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4359 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4360 try to track down a specific problem.
4361
4362 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4363 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4364 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4365
4366 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4367 warning.
4368
4369 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4370 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4371 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4372 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4373 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4374 some earlier ones do not.
4375
4376 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4377
4378 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4379 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4380 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4381 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4382 address literals are enabled, of course).
4383
4384 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4385
438610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4387 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4388 by a command such as
4389
4390 exim -f "" ...
4391
4392 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4393
439411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4395
439612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4397 remained set. It is now erased.
4398
439913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4400 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4401
440214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4403 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4404 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4405 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4406 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4407 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4408 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4409 appropriate error code.
4410
441115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4412 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4413 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4414 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4415 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4416 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4417
441816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4419 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4420 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4421
442217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4423 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4424 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4425 terminate the header.
4426
442718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4428 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4429 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4430
443119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4432 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4433 (4.30/29). In particular:
4434
4435 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4436 imposed.
4437
4438 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4439 to write a maildirsize file.
4440
4441 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4442 the transport, the new value overrides.
4443
4444 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4445 count.
4446
444720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4448 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4449 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4450 space or a tab.
4451
445221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4453 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4454 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4455 the fallback hosts.
4456
445722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4458 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4459 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4460
446123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4462 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4463 using a union.
4464
446524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4466 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4467 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4468
446925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4470
447126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4472
447327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4474
447528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4476 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4477 become corrupted.
4478
447929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4480 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4481 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4482 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4483 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4484 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4485 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4486 too great.
4487
448830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4489 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4490 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4491 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4492 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4493 incorrectly.
4494
449531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4496 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4497 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4498 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4499 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4500 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4501 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4502 cached value only when the same options are set.
4503
450432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4505
450633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4507 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4508 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4509 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4510 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4511
451234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4513 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4514 it is clearly obsolete.
4515
451635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4517 transport.
4518
451936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4520 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4521 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4522 times.
4523
452437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4525 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4526 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4527 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4528 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4529
453038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4531 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4532 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4533 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4534
453539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4536
4537 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4538
4539 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4540 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4541 2^31.
4542
454340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4544 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4545 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4546 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4547 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4548 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4549 $localpart_data.
4550
455141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4552 with the -f command-line option.
4553
455442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4555 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4556 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4557 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4558 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4559 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4560
456143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4562 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4563 line.
4564
456544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4566 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4567 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4568 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4569 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4570 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4571 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4572 buffer is too small.
4573
457445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4575 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4576
457746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4578 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4579 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4580 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4581 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4582 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4583 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4584 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4585 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4586
458747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4588 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4589 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4590
459148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4592 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4593 ACL").
4594
459549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4596 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4597 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4598 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4599 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4600
460150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4602 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4603 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4604 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4605 is set.
4606
460751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4608
460952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4610
461153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4612 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4613
461454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4615 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4616 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4617
461855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4619 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4620 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4621 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4622 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4623
462456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4625 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4626 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4627 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4628 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4629 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4630 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4631
463257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4633 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4634 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4635 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4636 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4637 the test of how many are available.
4638
463958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4640 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4641 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4642 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4643 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4644 new message is started.
4645
464659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4647 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4648
464960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4650 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4651
465261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4653 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4654 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4655 is no long logged.
4656
465762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4658 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4659 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4660 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4661 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4662 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4663 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4664
466563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4666 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4667 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4668 interpreted as octal.
4669
467064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4671 setting.
4672
467365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4674 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4675 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4676 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4677 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4678 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4679
468066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4681 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4682 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4683 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4684
4685 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4686 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4687 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4688 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4689
4690 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4691 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4692 is a bug fix.
4693
4694 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4695 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4696
469767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4698
469968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4700 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4701 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4702 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4703
470469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4705 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4706 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4707 supplied", which is not helpful.
4708
470970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4710 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4711 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4712
471371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4714 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4715 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4716 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4717 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4718 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4719 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4720 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4721
472272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4723 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4724 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4725 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4726 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4727
472873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4729 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4730 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4731 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4732 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4733 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4734
473574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4736 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4737 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4738
473975. Added write_rejectlog option.
4740
474176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4742 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4743 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4744 variables.
4745
474677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4747
474878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4749 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4750 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4751 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4752 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4753 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4754 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4755 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4756
475779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4758 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4759 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4760 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4761 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4762
476380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4764 Haardt.
4765
476681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4767 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4768 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4769 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4770 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4771 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4772 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4773 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4774 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4775
4776
4777Exim version 4.30
4778-----------------
4779
4780 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4781 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4782 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4783
4784 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4785 fixed.
4786
4787 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4788 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4789 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4790
4791 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4792 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4793 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4794 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4795 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4796 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4797
4798 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4799 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4800 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4801 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4802 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4803 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4804 the Exim test suite.
4805
4806 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4807 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4808 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4809 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4810
4811 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4812 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4813 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4814 specify it in this variable.
4815
4816 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4817 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4818 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4819 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4820
4821 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4822 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4823 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4824 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4825
4826 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4827 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4828 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4829 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4830 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4831
4832 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4833
483410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4835 they are logged.
4836
483711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4838 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4839 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4840 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4841 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4842
484312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4844 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4845
484613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4847 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4848 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4849 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4850 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4851
485214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4853 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4854
485515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4856 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4857 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4858
485916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4860 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4861
486217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4863 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4864
486518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4866 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4867 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4868
486919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4870 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4871
487220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4873 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4874 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4875 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4876
487721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4878
487922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4880 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4881 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4882 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4883
488423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4885
488624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4887 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4888
488925. Added .include_if_exists.
4890
489126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4892 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4893 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4894 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4895 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4896 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4897
489827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4899
490028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4901 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4902 this.
4903
490429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4905
490630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4907 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4908
4909 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4910 550 Sender verify failed
4911
4912 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4913 the final line of the response.
4914
491531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4916 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4917 all other user lookups.
4918
491932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4920 delivery time.
4921
492233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4923 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4924 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4925 result into an int without checking.
4926
492734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4928 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4929 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4930
493135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4932 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4933 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4934 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4935
493636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4937 correctly.
4938
493937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4940 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4941
494238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4943 to the empty sender.
4944
494539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4946 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4947 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4948 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4949 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4950 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4951 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4952 panic log.
4953
495440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4955 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4956 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4957 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4958 used.
4959
496041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4961 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4962
496342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4964 timestamps.
4965
496643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4967 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4968
496944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4970
497145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4972 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4973 logs.
4974
497546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4976 as soon as it is encountered.
4977
497847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4979
498048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4981 rewritten to "<>".
4982
498349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4984 recognizes a tab character.
4985
498650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4987 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4988 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4989 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4990
499151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4992
499352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4994 crash.
4995
499653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4997
499854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4999
500055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5001 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5002 2822.
5003
500456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5005 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5006 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5007 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5008 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5009
501057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5011 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5012
501358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5014 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5015 list (.included file names were always shown).
5016
501759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5018 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5019 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5020 root at that time.
5021
502260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5023 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5024
502561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5026
502762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5028
502963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5030
503164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5032 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5033 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5034 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5035 failures to open the logs.
5036
503765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5038 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5039 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5040 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5041 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5042 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5043 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5044
5045
5046Exim version 4.24
5047-----------------
5048
5049 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5050 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5051 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5052 change 4.23/1.
5053
5054 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5055 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5056 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5057
5058 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5059 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5060 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5061
5062 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5063 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5064 causing some misleading effects.
5065
5066 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5067 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5068 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5069
5070 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5071 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5072 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5073 queue-runner function directly.
5074
5075
5076Exim version 4.23
5077-----------------
5078
5079 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5080 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5081
5082 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5083 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5084 was always written to the default place.
5085
5086 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5087 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5088 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5089
5090 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5091
5092 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5093
5094 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5095 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5096 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5097
5098 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5099 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5100 must start.
5101
5102 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5103 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5104 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5105
5106 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5107 command line option is disabled.
5108
5109 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5110 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5111
5112 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5113
5114 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5115
5116 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5117 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5118
511910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5120
512111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5122 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5123 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5124 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5125 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5126 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5127
512812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5129 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5130 timeout.
5131
513213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5133 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5134
513514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5136 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5137
513815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5139 received was valid base64.
5140
514116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5142 name of the variable that was being set.
5143
514417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5145
514618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5147 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5148 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5149 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5150 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5151 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5152
515319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5154
515520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5156 nor realm was specified.
5157
515821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5159 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5160 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5161 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5162
516322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5164 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5165 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5166
516723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5168 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5169 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5170
517124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5172 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5173 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5174 some systems use these upper case variants.
5175
517625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5177 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5178 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5179 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5180
518126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5182
518327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5184 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5185
518628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5187 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5188 expansion variable.
5189
519029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5191
519230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5193 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5194 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5195 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5196
519731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5198 using it.
5199
520032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5201 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5202 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5203
520433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5205 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5206
520734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5208 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5209 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5210 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5211
521235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5213 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5214 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5215
521636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5217
521837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5219 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5220 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5221 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5222 aborted.
5223
522438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5225 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5226 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5227
522839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5229
523040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5231 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5232
523341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5234 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5235
523642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5237 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5238 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5239 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5240 when emails are that large.
5241
5242
5243
5244Exim version 4.22
5245-----------------
5246
5247 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5248 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5249
5250 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5251 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5252 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5253
5254 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5255 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5256 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5257
5258 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5259 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5260 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5261 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5262 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5263
5264 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5265 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5266 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5267 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5268 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5269 ever.
5270
5271 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5272 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5273 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5274 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5275 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5276 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5277 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5278 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5279 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5280 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5281 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5282 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5283 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5284 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5285
5286 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5287 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5288 parameterised it.
5289
5290 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5291 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5292 error should be diagnosed.
5293
5294 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5295 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5296 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5297 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5298 appeared instead of "NULL".
5299
530010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5301 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5302 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5303 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5304 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5305 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5306 proceeds).
5307
5308 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5309 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5310 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5311
5312
5313Exim version 4.21
5314-----------------
5315
5316 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5317 or receiver verification errors.
5318
5319 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5320 name.
5321
5322 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5323 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5324 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5325 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5326
5327 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5328 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5329 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5330 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5331 shouldn't happen again.
5332
5333 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5334 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5335 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5336
5337 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5338 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5339
5340 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5341
5342 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5343 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5344
5345 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5346 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5347 RFC.
5348
534910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5350 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5351 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5352
535311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5354 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5355 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5356 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5357
535812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5359 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5360 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5361 to define what should happen).
5362
536313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5364 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5365 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5366
536714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5368
536915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5370
537116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5372 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5373
537417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5375 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5376 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5377 structure in all cases.
5378
5379 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5380 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5381 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5382 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5383
538418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5385 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5386 domain name.
5387
538819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5389 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5390
539120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5392 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5393
539421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5395 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5396 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5397
539822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5399 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5400 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5401
540223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5403 the book and for uniformity.
5404
540524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5406
540725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5408 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5409 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5410 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5411 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5412 non-existent command as the problem.
5413
541426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5415 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5416 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5417
541827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5419
542028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5421 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5422 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5423
542429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5425 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5426 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5427 timestamps using strftime().
5428
542930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5430 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5431
543232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5433 transport-time rewrites.
5434
543533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5436 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5437 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5438 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5439
544034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5441 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5442
544335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5444 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5445 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5446 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5447 comma and a space.
5448
544936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5450 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5451 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5452 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5453 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5454 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5455 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5456
545737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5458 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5459 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5460 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5461 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5462
546338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5464 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5465 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5466 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5467 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5468 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5469 remaining text gets split now.
5470
547139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5472 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5473 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5474 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5475
547640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5477 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5478 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5479 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5480 $return_path.
5481
548241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5483 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5484 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5485 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5486 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5487 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5488 passed through if needed.
5489
549042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5491 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5492 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5493 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5494 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5495 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5496
549743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5498 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5499 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5500 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5501 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5502
550344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5504 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5505 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5506 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5507 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5508
550945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5510 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5511 noticed.
5512
551346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5514 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5515 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5516 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5517 mayhem of various kinds.
5518
551947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5520 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5521 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5522 the right test for positive values.
5523
552448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5525 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5526 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5527 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5528 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5529 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5530 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5531 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5532 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5533 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5534 envelope.
5535
553649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5537 module.
5538
553950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5540 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5541 forbidding it.
5542
554351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5544 the existing equality matching.
5545
554652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5547 dealing with inode numbers.
5548
554953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5550 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5551 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5552
555354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5554 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5555 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5556 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5557 local_scan().
5558
555955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5560 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5561 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5562 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5563 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5564 relay addresses has also been removed.
5565
556656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5567
556857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5569 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5570 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5571
557258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5573 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5574 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5575 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5576 processing applies to CR:
5577
5578 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5579 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5580
5581 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5582 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5583 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5584 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5585
558659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5587 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5588 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5589
559060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5591 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5592 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5593 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5594 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5595 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5596 arisen.
5597
559861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5599 program routers.
5600
560162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5602 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5603 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5604 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5605 adds:
5606
5607 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5608
5609 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5610
5611 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5612
561363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5614 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5615 not considered personal.
5616
561764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5618
561965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5620
562166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5622
562367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5624 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5625 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5626 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5627 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5628 header lines, and spool format errors.
5629
563068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5631 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5632 for more flexibility.
5633
563469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5635 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5636 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5637
563870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5639 Sabourenkov.
5640
564171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5642 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5643 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5644 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5645 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5646 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5647 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5648 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5649 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5650
565172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5652 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5653 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5654 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5655 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5656 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5657 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5658
565973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5660 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5661 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5662
566374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5664 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5665 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5666 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5667 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5668 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5669 instead of killing the process with assert().
5670
567175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5672 than Unicode encoding.
5673
567476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5675 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5676 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5677 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5678
567977. Added process_log_path.
5680
568178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5682 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5683
568479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5685 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5686
568780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5688 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5689 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5690
569181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5692 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5693 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5694 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5695 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5696 were applied:
5697
5698 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5699 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5700 as invalid.
5701
570282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5703 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5704 they will be used during message reception.
5705
5706
5707Exim version 4.20
5708-----------------
5709
5710The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5711
5712****