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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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7Exim version 4.88
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9JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
10 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 11
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12JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
13 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
14 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
15
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16JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
17 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
18 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
19 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
20 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
21 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
22 if one fails this test.
23 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
24 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
25
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26JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
27 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
28
23bb6982 29JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 30 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 31
0bd1b1ed 32JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 33 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 34
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35JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
36 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
37
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38JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
39 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
40
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41JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
42
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43JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
44 certificate).
45
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46JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
47 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
48 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
49 connection after a verify cache hit.
50 Do not update it with the verify result either.
51
52JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
53 when routing results in more than one destination address.
54
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55JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
56 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
57 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
58 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
59 when the cutthrough connection is made).
60
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61JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
62 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
63
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64JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
65 Previously they were not counted.
66
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67JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
68 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
69 that needed the lookup.
70
803628d5 71JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a norml message arrival "<="; now
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72 distinguished as "(=".
73
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74JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
75 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
76
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77JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
78
79JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
80 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 81
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82JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quaratine results,
83 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
84
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85JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
86 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
87 compatible.
88
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89JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
90 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
91 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
92 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
93
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94JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
95
f59aaaaa 96JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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97 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
98 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 99
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100JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
101 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
102 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
103 be lost.
104
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105JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
106 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
107 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
108 itself :(
109
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110JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
111 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
112 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
113
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114JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
115 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
116 options.
117
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118JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
119
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120PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
121 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
122
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123PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
124 are not in the system include path.
125
ad7fc6eb 126JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 127 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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128 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
129 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 130
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131JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
132 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
133 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
134
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135JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
136
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137HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
138 an incoming connection.
139
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140HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
141 to rspamd.
142
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143HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
144 fallback to "prime256v1".
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146JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
147 Could leak key material. Remotely explaoitable. CVE-2016-9963.
148
149
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150Exim version 4.87
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152JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
153 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
154 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
155 client dropping the TLS connection.
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157TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
158 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
159
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160TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
161 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
162 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
163 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
164 outgoing I= field.
165
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166JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
167 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
168 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
169 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
170 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
171 check on the next write.
172
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173HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
174 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
175 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
176 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
177 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
178
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179JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
180 mime_regex ACL conditions.
181
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182JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
183 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
184 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
185
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186JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
187 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
188 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
189 an authenticate fail is not an error.
190
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191HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
192 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
193
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194JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
195 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
196
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197JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
198 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
199 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
200 distinct.
201
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202JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
203
204JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
205
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206JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
207
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208JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
209 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
210
98b98887 211JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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212 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
213
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214JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
215
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216JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
217 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
218
219JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
220
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221JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
222 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
223
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224JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
225
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226JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
227 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
228 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
229 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
230 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
231 they will retry in-clear.
232 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
233 at installation time.
234
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235HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
236 with the $config_file variable.
237
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238JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
239 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
240 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
241 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
242 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
243
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244GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
245 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
246 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
247 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
248 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
249
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250JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
251
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252JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
253 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
254 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
255 list order is no longer honoured.
256
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257JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
258 for DKIM processing.
259
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260JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
261 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 262
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263JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
264 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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265 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
266 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 267
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268JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
269 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
270
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271JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
272 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
273
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274JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
275 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
276
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277JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
278
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279JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
280 cached by the daemon.
281
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282JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
283 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
284
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285JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
286 keys are given for lookup.
287
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288JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
289 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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290 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
291 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 292
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293JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
294 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
295 server-side so match that on older versions.
296
07c73177 297JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 298 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 299 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 300
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301JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
302 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
303
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304JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
305 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
306 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 307 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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308 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
309 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
310 initial truncated version.
311
ab9152ff 312JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 313
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314JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
315
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316JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
317 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
318
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319JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
320
bc3c7bb7 321HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 322
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323JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
324 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
325 induced overflows.
326
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327JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
328 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
329 stage.
330
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331JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
332 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
333
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334JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
335 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
336 former class.
337
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338JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
339 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
340 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
341
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342JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
343 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
344 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
345 extraction. Accept either.
346
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349Exim version 4.86
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351JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
352 expanded.
353
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354JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
355
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356JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
357 it.
358
01a4a5c5 359JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 360 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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361 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
362 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
363
cb1d7830 364JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 365 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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366 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
367
610ff438 368JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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369 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
370 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
371 TLS connections
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373JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
374 sites use this now.
375
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376JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
377 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
378 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
379 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
380 have a dsn_lasthop option.
381
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382JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
383 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 384 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 385
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386JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
387
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388JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
389 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
390
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391JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
392 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
393
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394JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
395 /defer_ok option.
396
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397JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
398 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
399
fd4d8871 400JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 401 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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402 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
403
404JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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405 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
406 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 407
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408JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
409 timeout value per server.
410
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411JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
412 now have the list separator specified.
413
8a512ed5 414JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 415 option values.
8a512ed5 416
82c0c8ea 417JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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418 under OpenSSL.
419
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420JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
421
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422JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
423 rather than the verbs used.
424
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425JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
426 from 255 to 1024 chars.
427
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428JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
429
cfab9d68 430HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 431 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 432
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433JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
434 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
435
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436HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
437 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
438
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439JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
440
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441JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
442
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443JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
444 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
445 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
446 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
447
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448JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
449
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450JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
451 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
452
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453JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
454 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
455
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456JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
457
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458JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
459
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460JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
461
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462JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
463 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
464
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465JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
466 added for tls authenticator.
467
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468HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
469
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473TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
474 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
475 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
476 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
477 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
478 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
479 the script parsing/test process like normal.
480
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481TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
482 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
483 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
484 function when detected.
485
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486JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
487 cause callback expansion.
488
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489TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
490 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
491 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
492 instead of bool when processing it.
493
0f06b4f2 494JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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495 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
496
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497JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
498
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499JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
500
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501TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
502
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503TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
504 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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506JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
507 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
508 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
509 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
510 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
511 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
512
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513JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
514 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
515 exceeded it.
516
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517JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
518 version 3.3.6 or later.
519
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520JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
521 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
522 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 523 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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524 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
525 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
526 option is defined.
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528TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
529 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
530
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531JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
532 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
533 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
534 matches.
535
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536JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
537 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
538 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
539
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540JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
541 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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542
543JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
544 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
545 syntax errors.
546
3394b36a 547JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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548
549JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
550 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
551
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552TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
553 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
554 tarball.
555
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556JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
557
558JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
559 Bug 1561.
560
561JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
562 output list separator was used.
563
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567TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
568 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
569 return.
1f0ebb98 570
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571JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
572 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
573
574JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
575
576TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 577 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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582
583TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
584
585 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
586 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
587 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
588 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
589 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
590 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
591
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592TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
593 utilities have not been installed.
594
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595JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
596 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
597
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598TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
599 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
600
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601TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
602 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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603 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
604 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 605
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606JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
607
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608TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
609 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
610
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611PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
612 not dns_use_dnssec.
613
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614JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
615
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616TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
617 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
618 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
619
8ddef691 620TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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621 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
622 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
623 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
624 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 625 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 626
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627JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
628
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629JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
630 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
631
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632JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
633 failed delivery.
634
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635JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
636
511a6c14 637JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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638
639JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
640 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 641
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642JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
643 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
644
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645TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
646
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647JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
648
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649JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
650 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
651
652 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
653 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
654 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
655
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656TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
657 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
658 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
659 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 660
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661JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
662
8c51eead 663JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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664 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
665 lookup).
8c51eead 666
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667TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
668 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
669 Schlichting.
35aba663 670
fd3b6a4a 671JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 672 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 673
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674TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
675 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
676
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677JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
678
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679TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
680 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
681 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
682
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683JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
684 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
685
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686JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
687 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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688 hosts_request_ocsp.
689
ed3bba5f 690JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 691 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 692 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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694JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
695
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696TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
697 Christian Aistleitner.
698
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699JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
700
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701TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
702 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
703
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704JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
705 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
706
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707JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
708 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
709
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710TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
711 support and error reporting did not work properly.
712
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713TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
714 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
715
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716TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
717 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
718 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
719
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720JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
721
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722PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
723 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
724 Jasper Wallace.
725
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726JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
727
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728TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
729 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
730 CVE-2014-2972
731
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736PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
737
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738PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
739 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
740
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741PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
742 by GnuTLS.
743
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744PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
745 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
746 routines.
747
13363eba 748PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 749
66645890 750PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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751 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
752 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
753 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
754 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 755
a3fb9793 756PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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757 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
758 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
759 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 760 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 761 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 762
d27f98fe 763TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 764
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765TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
766
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767TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
768 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
769
ae0e32ee 770TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 771 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 772 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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773
774TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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776TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
777
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778TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
779 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
780
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781JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
782
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783JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
784
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785PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
786
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787NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
788 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 789
585121e2 790JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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792PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
793 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
794 function.
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796PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
797 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
798
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799JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
800 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
801 "acl = name arg..."
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803JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
804
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805JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
806
ea722490 807JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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808 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
809
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810JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
811 Bugzilla 884.
812
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813JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
814 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
815
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816JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
817 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
818
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819PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
820 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 821 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
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823JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
824 authenticators.
825
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826JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
827 for control.
828
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829PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
830
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831PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
832 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
833 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
834 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
835
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836TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
837
838 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
839 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
840 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
841 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
842 the retry rules.
843
844 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
845 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
846 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
847
848 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
849 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
850 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
851 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
852
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853 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
854 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
855 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
856 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
857 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
858 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
859 delivery, as in LMTP.
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861 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
862 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
863
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864TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
865
866 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
867
868 Resent-From: f
869
870 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
871 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
872 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
873 username as equal to the username.
874
875 This change corrects that bug.
876
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877GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
878 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
879 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
880
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881TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
882
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883PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
884 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
885 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
886 NULL dereference and crash.
887
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888JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
889
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890PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
891 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
892 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
893
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894SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
895
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896JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
897 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
898 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
899 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
900 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
901 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
902 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
903 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
904 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
905 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
906 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
907
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908PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
909 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
910
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911PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
912 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
913 Bugzilla 880.
914
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915PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
916 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
917 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
918 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
919 an empty string is now equivalent.
920
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921PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
922 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
923 not performing validation itself.
924
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925PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
926 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
927
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928JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
929 Bugzilla 321, 823.
930
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931TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
932
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933PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
934 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
935 other false fix of the same issue.
936 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
937 Bugzilla 1363.
938
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939PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
940 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
941
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942PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
943 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
944 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
945
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946PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
947 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
948 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
949
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950TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
951
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952JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
953
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954TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
955 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
956
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957TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
958 Alexander Miroch.
959
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960TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
961 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
962 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
963 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
964 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
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046172e6
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966TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
967 the src/util/ subdirectory.
968
581d7bee 969TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 970 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
971 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
972
973TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
974 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
975 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
976 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
977
237b2cf2
TL
978TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
979
9fc5a352
TL
980TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
981 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
982 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 983
b10e4ec2
TL
984TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
985
e2cebd74
TL
986TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
987 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
988 interaction.
989
990TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
991 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
992
2519e60d
TL
993TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
994 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
995
e78e6ecf 996
4263f395
PP
997Exim version 4.80.1
998-------------------
999
1000PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1001 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1002 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1003
ea722490 1004
b1770b6e 1005Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1006-----------------
1007
1008PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1009 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1010 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1011
23c7e742
NM
1012NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1013
b322aac8
NM
1014NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1015 improved.
1016
4a891427
NM
1017NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1018
c1e794ba 1019PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1020
97753960
PP
1021PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1022
1023PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1024 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1025
df6303fa
PP
1026PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1027 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1028
7e6a8985
PP
1029PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1030 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1031
f1e05cc7 1032PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1033 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1034 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1035
4c287009
PP
1036PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1037
b98bb9ac
PP
1038PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1039 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1040
4a6a987a
PP
1041PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1042
c45dd180 1043PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1044
7db8d074
PP
1045PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1046 non-compliant senders.
1047 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1048
eae0036b 1049NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1050 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1051 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1052
dec5017e
PP
1053PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1054 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1055 in spool file corruption.
1056
c80c5570
PP
1057PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1058 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1059 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1060 "Got SSL error 2".
1061
076b11e2
PP
1062TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1063 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1064 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1065
5407bfff
JH
1066JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1067 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1068
9e45c72b
PP
1069JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1070
e74376d8
PP
1071PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1072 diagnostics.
1073 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1074
da3ad30d
PP
1075PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
1076 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1077 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1078
7be682ca
PP
1079PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1080 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1081 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1082 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1083
ef840681
PP
1084PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1085 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1086
5bfb4cdf
PP
1087PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1088 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1089 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1090 resolver implementation change.
1091
c6e95d22
PP
1092PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1093 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1094
9cbad13b
PP
1095PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1096
9ee44efb
PP
1097PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1098
6a6084f8
PP
1099PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1100 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1101
12dd53c7
PP
1102PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1103 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1104
9e45c72b 1105JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1106 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1107
17c76198
PP
1108PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1109 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1110 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1111 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1112 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1113
53947857 1114PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1115
eae0036b 1116PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1117 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1118 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1119
9e45c72b 1120JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1121
7390e768
PP
1122PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1123 read-only, out of scope).
1124 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1125
08488c86
PP
1126PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1127 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1128 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1129 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1130
6475bd82
PP
1131PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1132
81f91683
PP
1133PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1134 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1135 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1136 real issues in debug logging.
1137
5779e6aa
PP
1138PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1139 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1140
3375e053
PP
1141PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1142 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1143 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1144
1145PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1146 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1147 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1148 problems.
3375e053 1149
9d26b8c0
PP
1150PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1151 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1152
57eb9e91 1153PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1154 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1155 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1156 needs to override this, it can.
1157
16880d1a
PP
1158PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1159 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1160 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1161
a799883d
PP
1162PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1163 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1164 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1165 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1166
3ecab157 1167PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1168
0599f9cf 1169
867fcbf5
PP
1170Exim version 4.77
1171-----------------
1172
1173PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1174 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1175
f1a29782
TF
1176TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1177
ab42bd23
TK
1178TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1179 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1180
0ca0cf52
TF
1181TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1182 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1183
921b12ca
TF
1184TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1185 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1186 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1187
1188 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1189 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1190 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1191 not safe for signals.
1192
1193 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1194 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1195 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1196 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1197 exiwhat.
1198
c99ce5c9
TF
1199TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1200
1201 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1202 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1203 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1204 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1205 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1206
1207 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1208 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1209 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1210 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1211 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1212 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1213
1214 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1215 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1216 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1217 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1218
1219 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1220 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1221 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1222 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1223
1224 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1225 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1226 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1227 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1228 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1229 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1230 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1231 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1232 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1233
1234 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1235 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1236 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1237 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1238
1239 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1240 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1241 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1242 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1243 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1244 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1245 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1246 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1247 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1248 details in the main documentation.
1249
3634fc25
TF
1250TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1251
792e8a19
TF
1252TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1253
5901f0ab
TF
1254TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1255 repository when doing development or release builds.
1256
7f2a2a43
PP
1257PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1258 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1259
061b7ebd
PP
1260PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1261 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1262 Bugzilla 97.
1263
e12f8c32
PP
1264PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1265
9e949f00 1266PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1267 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1268
1269PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1270 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1271
555ae6af 1272PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1273 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1274
1275PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1276 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1277
6f7fe114
PP
1278PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1279 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1280
c566dd90
PP
1281PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1282 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1283 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1284 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1285
d6cc7c78 1286PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1287 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1288 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1289
0d0e4455
PP
1290PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1291
3399bb60 1292PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1293
1294PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1295 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1296
0ca0cf52 1297
10906672
PP
1298Exim version 4.76
1299-----------------
1300
1301PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1302
754a0503
PP
1303PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1304 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1305
c0c7b2da
PP
1306PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1307
e97d1f08
PP
1308PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1309
084c1d8c
PP
1310PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1311 Bugzilla 1098.
1312
4e7ee012
PP
1313PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1314 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1315
c8d52a00
PP
1316TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1317 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1318
54e7ce4a
PP
1319PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1320 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1321
5ee6f336
PP
1322PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1323 Bugzilla 1104.
1324
c8d52a00 1325TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1326 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1327
1328TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1329 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1330 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1331 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1332
1333PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1334 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1335
10906672 1336
aa097c4c
NM
1337Exim version 4.75
1338-----------------
1339
4c9ef03a 1340NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1341 Bugzilla 1073
1342
7f3d9eff
TF
1343TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1344 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1345 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1346
159f52d2
TF
1347TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1348 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1349
0cc9542a
PP
1350PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1351 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1352 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1353
f7274286
PP
1354PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1355 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1356
7b797365
PP
1357PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1358 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1359
caacae52
NM
1360NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1361 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1362
09dcaba9
NM
1363NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1364 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1365
bc19a55b
PP
1366PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1367 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1368
bd4c9759
NM
1369NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1370 Fixes bug 943.
1371
b72aab72
PP
1372PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1373 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1374
2fe76745
PP
1375PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1376 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1377
76aa570c
PP
1378PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1379 SQL string expansion failure details.
1380 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1381
f1e5fef5
PP
1382PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1383 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1384
4d805ee9
PP
1385PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1386 extern declarations in function scope.
1387 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1388
cd59ab18
PP
1389PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1390 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1391 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1392 a kernel bug).
1393
332f5cf3
PP
1394PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1395 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1396
29cfeb94
PP
1397PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1398 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1399
660242ad
PP
1400PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1401 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1402
bc4bc4c5
PP
1403PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1404 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1405
2e64baa9
NM
1406NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1407 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1408 Dennis Davis.
1409
bddd7526
PP
1410PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1411
6bac1a9a
PP
1412PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1413
552193f0
NM
1414NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1415 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1416
1b587e48
TF
1417TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1418 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1419
aa097c4c 1420
8c07b69f
TF
1421Exim version 4.74
1422-----------------
1423
1424TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1425 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1426
c0ea85ab
TF
1427TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1428 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1429
0761d44e
TF
1430TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1431
0a349494
PP
1432DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1433 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1434 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1435
1436PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1437 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1438 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1439
fea24b2e
PP
1440PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1441 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1442 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1443 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1444
6545de78
PP
1445PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1446 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1447 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1448 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1449
1670ef10
PP
1450PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1451 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1452 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1453 arbitrary files.
1454
c0886197
PP
1455PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1456 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1457
b7487bce
PP
1458PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1459 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1460 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1461 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1462 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1463
8c07b69f 1464
97fd1e48 1465Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1466-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1467
1468PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1469 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1470 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1471
6901c596
PP
1472PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1473 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1474
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1475JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1476
77bb000f
PP
1477PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1478
a29e5231
PP
1479PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1480
ec5a0394 1481PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1482
55c75993
PP
1483PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1484
453a6645 1485PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1486 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1487 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1488 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1489
8544e77a
PP
1490PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1491 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1492 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1493 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1494 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1495
83e029d5
PP
1496PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1497
ed7f7860
PP
1498PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1499
7d9f747b
PP
1500PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1501
4b2241d2
PP
1502PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1503
10385c15
PP
1504PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1505
dbc4b90d
PP
1506PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1507
532be449
PP
1508PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1509
6a8de854 1510PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1511 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1512 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1513
5dc43717
JJ
1514JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1515
1516JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1517 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1518
3346ab01
PP
1519PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1520 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1521
491fab4c
PP
1522PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1523 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1524 Notification from John Horne.
1525
13eb9497
PP
1526PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1527 compatible.
1528
1529PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1530 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1531 it normally works.
1532
7f36d675
DW
1533DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1534 access.
1535
c1d94452
DW
1536DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1537 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1538 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1539
e2f5dc15
DW
1540DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1541 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1542 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1543 configuration file.
1544
cd25e41d
DW
1545DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1546 option (effectively making it always true).
1547
261dc43e
DW
1548DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1549 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1550
fa32850b
DW
1551DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1552 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1553
79d4bc3d
PP
1554PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1555 run-time user, instead of root.
1556
43236f35 1557PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1558 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1559
fb08281f
DW
1560DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1561 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1562 arguments.
3346ab01 1563
74935b98
DW
1564DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1565 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1566 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1567
90b6341f
DW
1568DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1569
57730b52
ML
1570NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1571
66581d1e 1572
465e92cf
JJ
1573Exim version 4.72
1574-----------------
1575
453a6645
PP
1576JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1577 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1578 typos
465e92cf 1579
453a6645
PP
1580JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1581 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1582 (Finput)
edae0343 1583
9bd3e22c
NM
1584NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1585 Patch from Alain Williams
1586
bb576ff7
NM
1587NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1588
5a1a5845
NM
1589NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1590 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1591
981a9fad
NM
1592NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1593 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1594
7fc497ee
NM
1595NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1596
1a41defa
JJ
1597JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1598
a466095c 1599NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1600 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1601
94a6bd0b
NM
1602TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1603
1604TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1605
1606MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1607 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1608 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1609
c1b141a8
NM
1610NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1611 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1612
b26eacf1 1613NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1614 Patch by Simon Arlott
1615
179c5980 1616PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1617 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1618
9bd3e22c 1619
7c6d71af
NM
1620Exim version 4.71
1621-----------------
1622
7d9f747b 1623TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1624
f013fb92
NM
1625NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1626
0eb8eedd
NM
1627NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1628
663ee6d9
NM
1629NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1630
177ebd9b
NM
1631NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1632
7c6d71af 1633
210f147e
NM
1634Exim version 4.70
1635-----------------
1636
cdd3bb85 1637TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1638 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1639
1640TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1641 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1642 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1643
1644TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1645 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1646 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1647
1648TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1649 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1650
210f147e
NM
1651NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1652 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1653 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1654 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1655
deafd5b3
NM
1656NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1657 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1658 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1659
089793a4
TF
1660TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1661
5f16ca82
TF
1662TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1663
dae9d94e 1664NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1665 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1666
7d9f747b 1667NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1668
06864c44
TF
1669TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1670 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1671 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1672 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1673
65a7d8c3 1674NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1675 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1676
23510047 1677TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1678
7d9f747b 1679NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1680
7d8eec3a 1681NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1682 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1683
89dec7b6
TF
1684TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1685 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1686
a99de90c
TF
1687TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1688 that they are available at delivery time.
1689
e2803e40
TF
1690TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1691
7199e1ee
TF
1692TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1693 incoming_port log selectors.
1694
e276e04b
TF
1695TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1696 setting expands to an empty string.
1697
ce552449 1698NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1699 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1700
e765a0f1 1701NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1702 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1703
4f054c63 1704NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1705 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1706
7d9f747b
PP
1707NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1708 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1709
7d9f747b
PP
1710NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1711 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1712
b52bc06e 1713NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1714 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1715
447de4b0
NM
1716NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1717
4c69d561 1718NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1719 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1720
d5c39246 1721NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1722 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1723
0b23848a
TK
1724TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1725
8f3414a1 1726NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1727 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1728
fb6f955d
NM
1729NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1730
1731NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1732
7d9f747b
PP
1733NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1734 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1735
7d9f747b
PP
1736NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1737 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1738
7d9f747b
PP
1739NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1740 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1741
7d9f747b
PP
1742NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1743 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1744
7d9f747b
PP
1745NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1746 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1747
7d9f747b
PP
1748NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1749 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1750
7d9f747b
PP
1751NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1752 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1753
7d9f747b 1754NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1755 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1756
7d9f747b 1757NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1758
7d9f747b
PP
1759NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1760 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1761
7d9f747b 1762NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1763
7d9f747b 1764NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1765
7d9f747b 1766NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1767
7d9f747b 1768NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1769
17792b53 1770NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1771 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1772
7d9f747b
PP
1773NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1774 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1775
91576cec 1776NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1777 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1778
7d9f747b
PP
1779NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1780 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1781
7d9f747b 1782NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1783
7d9f747b 1784NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1785
7d9f747b 1786NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1787
7d9f747b 1788NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1789
deafd5b3 1790
47db1125
NM
1791Exim version 4.69
1792-----------------
1793
4b3504d0
TK
1794TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1795 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1796 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1797
1798 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1799 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1800 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1801 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1802 build errors in sieve.c.
1803
81ea09ca
NM
1804NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1805 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1806 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1807
f13cddcb
SC
1808SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1809
7d9f747b 1810NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1811
7d9f747b 1812NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1813
7d9f747b 1814NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1815
1816
eb4c0de6
PH
1817Exim version 4.68
1818-----------------
1819
1820PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1821
6a3bceb1
PH
1822PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1823 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1824 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1825 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1826 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1827 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1828 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1829 for iplsearch lookups.
1830
1831 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1832 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1833 previously such lookups could never work.
1834
1835 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1836 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1837 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1838
2e30fa9d
TK
1839TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1840 version.
1841
0806a9c5
MH
1842MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1843 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1844 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1845 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1846 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1847 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1848
ae276964
TK
1849TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1850 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1851
0f2cbd1b
MH
1852MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1853 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1854 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1855 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1856 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1857 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1858
2b85bce7
PH
1859PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1860 local_scan API.
1861
93655c46
PH
1862PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1863
6c512171
PH
1864PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1865 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1866 encrypted.
1867
1868PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1869 by clients under certain conditions.
1870
aa6dc513
PH
1871PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1872 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1873
a96603a0
PH
1874PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1875
8f240103
PH
1876PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1877 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1878
1879PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1880
d677b2f2
PH
1881PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1882
d52120f2
PH
1883PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1884
64f2600a
PH
1885PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1886 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1887
8669f003
PH
1888PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1889
a4dc33a8
PH
1890PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1891 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1892
d6a60c0f
PH
1893PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1894
8f128379
PH
1895PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1896
8932dffe
PH
1897PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1898 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1899 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1900 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1901
ddea74fa 1902PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1903 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1904 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1905
ddea74fa 1906PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1907 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1908
ddea74fa
PH
1909PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1910
ce9f225c
PH
1911PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1912
19897d52
PH
1913PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1914
bc64a74d
PH
1915PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1916 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1917 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1918
eb4c0de6 1919
b4ed4da0
PH
1920Exim version 4.67
1921-----------------
1922
22ad45c9
MH
1923MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1924 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1925 Jan Srzednicki.
1926
b4ed4da0
PH
1927PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1928 issue a MAIL command.
1929
431b7361
PH
1930PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1931
1932 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1933
1934 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1935 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1936 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1937 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1938 item. This has been fixed.
1939
1940PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1941 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1942
83da1223
PH
1943PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1944 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1945
54fc8428
PH
1946PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1947 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1948 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1949
34c5e8dd
SC
1950SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1951
bbe15da8
PH
1952PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1953 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1954 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1955 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1956 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1957
0e8a9471
MH
1958MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1959 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1960 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1961
f0872424
PH
1962PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1963 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1964 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1965 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1966
b01dd148
PH
1967PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1968
6bf342e1
PH
1969PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1970
273f34d0
PH
1971PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1972 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1973 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1974 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1975 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1976
cf8b11a5
PH
1977PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1978
41c7c167
PH
1979PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1980 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1981 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1982 values).
1983
9c57cbc0
PH
1984PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1985
f3f065bb
PH
1986PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1987
047bdd8c
PH
1988PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1989
0ce9abe6
PH
1990PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1991
0e22dfd1
PH
1992PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1993
4c590bd1
PH
1994PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1995 no_callout_flush is set.
1996
09945f1e
PH
1997PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1998 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1999 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2000 fixed.
2001
c51b8e75
PH
2002PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2003
e28326d8
PH
2004PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2005 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2006 other ACL rejections are.
2007
75b1493f
PH
2008PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2009 with slight modification.
2010
7c5214ec
PH
2011PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2012 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2013
4311097e
PH
2014PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2015 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2016 connection.
2017
29f89cad
PH
2018PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2019 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2020
5e687460
SC
2021SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2022
c3611384
PH
2023PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2024 expansion side effects.
2025
5a11a7b4
PH
2026PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2027 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2028 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2029 be the same.
2030
0e20aff9
MH
2031MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2032 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2033 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2034
ca86f471
PH
2035PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2036 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2037 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2038 were accidentally chopped off.
2039
a14e5636
PH
2040PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2041 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2042 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2043 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2044 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2045 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2046 pipelining has not been advertised.
2047
ec95d1a6
PH
2048PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2049
42855d71
PH
2050PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2051 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2052 This has been fixed.
2053
57c2c631
PH
2054PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2055 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2056 reported on Solaris.
2057
58c01c94
PH
2058PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2059 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2060 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2061 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2062 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2063 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2064 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2065
dee5a20a
PH
2066PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2067 cpus.
2068
d2ee6114
PH
2069PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2070
b2d5182b
PH
2071PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2072
79749a79
PH
2073PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2074 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2075 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2076 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2077 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2078 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2079
c456d9bb
PH
2080PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2081 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2082 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2083 host_all_ignored option.
2084
cd9868ec
PH
2085PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2086 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2087 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2088 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2089 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2090 is what is supposed to happen).
2091
ebeaf996
PH
2092PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2093 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2094 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2095 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2096 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2097 uses the Exim user.
2098
2679d413
PH
2099PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2100 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2101 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2102 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2103 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2104 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2105 users.
2106
84024b72
PH
2107PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2108
8005d38e
SC
2109SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2110 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2111 (Jez Hancock).
2112 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2113 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2114
3298c6c6
SC
2115SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2116
a43a27c5
PH
2117PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2118
58eb016e 2119PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2120 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2121 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2122 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2123 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2124 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2125 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2126 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2127 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2128 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2129 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2130
b43a74ea
PH
2131PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2132 advertised in response to EHLO.
2133
b4ed4da0 2134
5dd1517f
PH
2135Exim version 4.66
2136-----------------
2137
2138PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2139 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2140
2141 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2142 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2143
2144 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2145 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2146 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2147
2148 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2149 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2150 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2151 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2152 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2153
2154
93cfa765
TK
2155Exim version 4.65
2156-----------------
2157
2158TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2159 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2160 versions. (#438)
2161
d6066548
MH
2162MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2163 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2164 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2165
4362ff0d
PH
2166PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2167 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2168 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2169 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2170 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2171 rather than extend the field.
2172
93cfa765 2173
944e9e9c
TF
2174Exim version 4.64
2175-----------------
aa41d2de 2176
21d74bd9
TK
2177TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2178 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2179 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2180 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2181 these files.
2182
2183TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2184 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2185 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2186
2187TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2188 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2189 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2190
2191TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2192 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2193 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2194 in the field name.
2195
2b1c6e3a
PH
2196PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2197 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2198 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2199 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2200 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2201 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2202 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2203 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2204 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2205 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2206 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2207
1f872c80
PH
2208PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2209 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2210
2211PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2212 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2213 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2214 ignores EPIPE as well.
2215
d203e649
PH
2216PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2217 (quoted-printable decoding).
2218
cc2ed8f7 2219PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2220 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2221
ddfcd446
PH
2222PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2223
d45b1de8
PH
2224PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2225
2226PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2227
38a0a95f 2228PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2229 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2230
a2405d83
JJ
2231JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2232 in 4.64-PH/09.
2233
2234JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2235 miscellaneous code fixes
2236
6ea85e9a
PH
2237PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2238 rejections.
2239
26da7e20
PH
2240PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2241 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2242 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2243 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2244 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2245 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2246 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2247 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2248
14aa5a05 2249PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2250 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2251 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2252 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2253 function.
2254 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2255 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2256 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2257 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2258 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2259 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2260 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2261 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2262 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2263
ff75a1f7
PH
2264PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2265 decoding.
2266
e6f6568e
PH
2267PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2268 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2269 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2270 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2271 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2272 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2273 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2274 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2275
d6f6e0dc
PH
2276PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2277 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2278 list.
2279
322050c2
PH
2280PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2281 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2282 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2283 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2284 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2285 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2286 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2287 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2288 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2289 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2290 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2291 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2292 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2293
08955dd3
PH
2294PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2295 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2296 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2297 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2298 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2299 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2300 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2301
1eccaa59
PH
2302PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2303 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2304 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2305 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2306 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2307 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2308 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2309 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2310 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2311 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2312
602e59e5
PH
2313PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2314 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2315 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2316 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2317 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2318
411ef850
PH
2319PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2320 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2321 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2322 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2323 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2324 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2325 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2326
7befa435
PH
2327PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2328 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2329 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2330 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2331 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2332 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2333 been verified.
2334
48da4259 2335PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2336 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2337 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2338 and authorization.)
2339
48da4259
PH
2340PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2341 if any retry times were supplied.
2342
d1d5595c
PH
2343PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2344 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2345 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2346
0ef732d9
PH
2347PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2348
328895cc
PH
2349PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2350
fd700877
PH
2351PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2352 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2353 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2354 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2355 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2356 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2357
8dce1a6f
PH
2358PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2359 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2360
17af4a17
PH
2361PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2362 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2363 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2364
2365PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2366 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2367 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2368 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2369 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2370 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2371 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2372 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2373 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2374
2375 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2376 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2377 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2378 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2379 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2380 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2381 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2382 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2383 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2384
2385 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2386 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2387 hammering the server.
2388
c1114884
PH
2389PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2390 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2391
7a0743eb
PH
2392PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2393
0d85fa3f
PH
2394PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2395 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2396 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2397
1bf43b78
PH
2398PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2399 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2400 one case where this was not true.
2401
520de300
PH
2402PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2403 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2404 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2405 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2406 fails.
2407
48c7f9e2
PH
2408PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2409 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2410 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2411 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2412 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2413 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2414 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2415 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2416 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2417 smtp transport.
2418
99ea1c86
PH
2419PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2420 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2421 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2422 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2423
a2042e78
PH
2424PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2425 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2426
4fbcfc2e
PH
2427PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2428 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2429 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2430
aa41d2de
PH
2431PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2432
af561417
PH
2433PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2434
3cc66b45
PH
2435PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2436
194cc0e4
PH
2437PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2438 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2439 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2440 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2441
a401ddaa
PH
2442PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2443 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2444
4e88a19f
PH
2445PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2446 be meaningful with "accept".
2447
d7d7b289
SC
2448SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2449 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2450
2451SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2452 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2453 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2454
2455SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2456 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2457 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2458 there is data to show.
2459 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2460
2461SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2462 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2463 as well as the number of messages.
2464
2465SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2466 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2467 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2468
2469SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2470 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2471 have a flag are now skipped.
2472
2473SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2474 Added the -emptyok flag.
2475
2476SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2477 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2478
0ea2a468
JJ
2479JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2480 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2481 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2482
2483JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2484 match 4.64-PH/13
2485
2486JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2487 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2488
2489JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2490
2491JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2492 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2493
8a10f5a4
PH
2494PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2495
30e18802
PH
2496PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2497 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2498 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2499 contravention of the specifications.
2500
55728a4f
PH
2501PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2502 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2503 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2504
d7837193
PH
2505PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2506 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2507 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2508
87054a31
PH
2509PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2510
ea2c01d2
MH
2511MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2512 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2513 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2514 some point in the past.
2515
e4fa6968
PH
2516PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2517 transport during callout processing was broken.
2518
56f5d9bd
PH
2519PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2520 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2521
922e1c28
PH
2522PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2523 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2524
21eb6e72
PH
2525PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2526 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2527
a0540757
PH
2528PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2529
944e9e9c 2530
478be7b0
SC
2531Exim version 4.63
2532-----------------
2533
2534SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2535 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2536
2537SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2538 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2539 there is data to show.
2540 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2541
2542SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2543 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2544
2b965a65
TF
2545TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2546 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2547
45b91596
PH
2548TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2549 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2550
c59f5781
TF
2551TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2552 submissions from trusted users.
2553
90fc3069
TF
2554TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2555 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2556
6083aca0
TF
2557TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2558 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2559 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2560 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2561 there is now a framework to start from.
2562
765b530f
PH
2563PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2564 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2565 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2566
4e167a8c
PH
2567PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2568
4608d683
PH
2569PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2570
b8dc3e4a
PH
2571PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2572
5418e93b
PH
2573PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2574 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2575 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2576
b4a9bda2
PH
2577PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2578 libradius.
2579
45b91596
PH
2580PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2581 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2582 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2583
5547e2c5
PH
2584PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2585 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2586 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2587 its arguments.
2588
dbcef0ea
PH
2589PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2590 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2591 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2592 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2593 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2594
25257489
PH
2595PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2596 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2597
c816d124
PH
2598PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2599
a9ccd69a
PH
2600PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2601 operations in malware.c.
2602
75fa1910
PH
2603PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2604 signatures.
2605
a7d7aa58
PH
2606PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2607 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2608 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2609 all.
2610
42119b09
PH
2611PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2612 statements to "add_header".
2613
41609df5
PH
2614PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2615 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2616
a5bd321b
PH
2617PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2618 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2619 latter.
2620
e85a7ad5 2621PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2622 so that it is now:
2623
e85a7ad5
PH
2624 ${if or { \
2625 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2626 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2627 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2628 }{no}{yes}}
2629
e85a7ad5
PH
2630 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2631 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2632
d8fe1c03
PH
2633PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2634 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2635
16282d2b
PH
2636PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2637 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2638 any possible encoding problems.
2639
35d40a98
PH
2640PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2641 but not after initializing Perl.
2642
034d99ab
PH
2643PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2644 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2645 apparently, which is not desirable.
2646
6ec97b1b
PH
2647PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2648 queries.
2649
e22ca4ac
JJ
2650JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2651 --not options
2652
2653JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2654
33d73e3b
PH
2655PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2656 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2657 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2658 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2659
9ecb03f3
PH
2660PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2661 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2662 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2663
084efe8d
PH
2664PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2665 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2666 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2667 0.12.
2668
366fc9f0
PH
2669PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2670 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2671 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2672 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2673 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2674
c59f5781 2675
c887c79e
TF
2676Exim version 4.62
2677-----------------
2678
2679TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2680 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2681
1cce3af8
PH
2682PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2683 patch).
2684
afb3eaaf
PH
2685PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2686 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2687 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2688 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2689 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2690 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2691 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2692 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2693 451 error is used.
2694
e173618b
PH
2695PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2696
dd16e114
PH
2697PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2698 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2699 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2700
f7fd3850
PH
2701PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2702 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2703 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2704 odd errors.
2705
d87df92c
PH
2706PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2707 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2708
7e9f683d
PH
2709PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2710 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2711 option (which defaults to 0600).
2712
bfad5236
PH
2713PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2714
01c490df
PH
2715PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2716 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2717 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2718 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2719 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2720 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2721 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2722
d6629cdc
PH
2723PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2724
1cce3af8 2725
214e2000
PH
2726Exim version 4.61
2727-----------------
2728
2729PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2730 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2731 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2732 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2733 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2734 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2735 addresses as local.
2736
f9daeae0
PH
2737PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2738 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2739
7e66e54d
PH
2740PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2741
c8ea1597
PH
2742PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2743 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2744 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2745 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2746 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2747 grumble.
2748
911f6fde
PH
2749PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2750 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2751
47ca6d6c
PH
2752PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2753 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2754 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2755 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2756 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2757
ed0e9820
PH
2758PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2759 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2760 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2761 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2762
eff37e47
PH
2763PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2764 be the same on different OS.
2765
1921d2ea
PH
2766PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2767 testing.
2768
b3f69ca8
JJ
2769JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2770 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2771
2772JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2773 in 4.61-PH/06
2774
424a1c63
PH
2775PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2776 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2777 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2778 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2779 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2780 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2781 bounce message.
2782
7a100415
PH
2783PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2784 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2785 when Exim was called.
2786
19b9dc85
PH
2787PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2788 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2789
309bd837
PH
2790PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2791 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2792 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2793 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2794
59e82a2a
PH
2795PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2796 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2797 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2798 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2799 changes:
2800
2801 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2802 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2803 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2804
2805 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2806 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2807 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2808
9edc04ce
PH
2809PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2810 feature).
2811
1349e1e5
PH
2812PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2813 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2814 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2815 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2816 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2817 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2818 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2819 values from the SRV records were lost.
2820
ea49d0e1
PH
2821PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2822 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2823 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2824
064a94c9
PH
2825PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2826 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2827 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2828
727071f8
PH
2829PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2830 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2831 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2832 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2833 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2834 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2835 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2836 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2837 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2838 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2839
f78eb7c6
PH
2840PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2841 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2842 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2843
21c28500
PH
2844PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2845 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2846
2847PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2848 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2849 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2850 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2851 is given.
2852
1688f43b
PH
2853PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2854 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2855 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2856
2857PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2858 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2859 PH/23 above applies.
2860
9675b384
PH
2861PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2862 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2863 (for which there is an explicit test).
2864
6a3f1455
PH
2865PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2866
dac79d3e
PH
2867PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2868 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2869 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2870 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2871 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2872
5977a0b3
PH
2873PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2874 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2875 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2876 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2877
c91535f3
PH
2878PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2879 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2880 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2881
0d46a8c8
PH
2882PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2883
278c6e6c
PH
2884PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2885
2cbb4081
PH
2886PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2887 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2888 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2889
3eef829e
PH
2890PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2891 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2892 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2893 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2894 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2895
1ab95fa6
PH
2896PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2897 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2898 the message gets confusing).
2899
230205fc
PH
2900PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2901 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2902 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2903 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2904
75e0e026
PH
2905PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2906 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2907 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2908 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2909 same order.
2910
2911PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2912 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2913 the different processes.
2914
145396a6
PH
2915PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2916
3cd34f13
PH
2917PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2918
11121d3d
JJ
2919JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2920 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2921
2922JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2923 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2924
2925JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2926 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2927 messages matching specified criteria.
2928
8def5aaf
PH
2929PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2930
929ba01c
PH
2931PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2932 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2933
2632889e
PH
2934PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2935 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2936 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2937 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2938 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2939 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2940 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2941 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2942 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2943 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2944
944a9c55
PH
2945PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2946 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2947 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2948
4a23603b
PH
2949PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2950
4730f942
PH
2951PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2952 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2953 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2954 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2955 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2956 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2957 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2958 the variable.
2959
30dba1e6
PH
2960PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2961 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2962
382afc6b
PH
2963PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2964
a86229cf
PH
2965PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2966
50c99ba6
PH
2967PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2968
d35e429d
PH
2969PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2970 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2971 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2972 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2973 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2974 size of the count of files.
2975
f90d018c
PH
2976PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2977
75def545
PH
2978PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2979 used in LMTP mode:
2980
2981 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2982 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2983 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2984 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2985
2986 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2987 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2988 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2989
2990PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2991 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2992 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2993 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2994 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2995
c46782ef
PH
2996PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2997 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2998
71fafd95
PH
2999PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3000 will now be deprecated.
3001
2c5db4fd
PH
3002PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3003
9cf6b11a
JJ
3004JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3005 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3006 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3007
3008JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3009 with very large, slow to parse queues
3010
3011JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3012
3013JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3014
898d150f
PH
3015PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3016 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3017 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3018 SMTP output lines.
3019
46218253
PH
3020PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3021 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3022 Sieve code now uses this.
3023
e97957bc
PH
3024PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3025 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3026
81e509d7
PH
3027PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3028 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3029
3d240ff7
PH
3030PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3031
b37c4101
PH
3032PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3033 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3034 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3035 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3036 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3037
79378e0f
PH
3038PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3039 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3040 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3041 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3042
e49c7bb4
PH
3043PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3044
d114ec46
PH
3045PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3046
f3d7df6c
PH
3047PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3048 is preferred over IPv4.
3049
715ab376
PH
3050PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3051 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3052 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3053 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3054 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3055 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3056 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3057
6b31b150
PH
3058PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3059 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3060 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3061
3062PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3063
d515a917
PH
3064PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3065 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3066 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3067 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3068 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3069 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3070 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3071 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3072 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3073 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3074 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3075
9b8fadde
PH
3076PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3077 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3078 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3079
214e2000 3080
5de37277
PH
3081Exim version 4.60
3082-----------------
3083
cc38ddbf
PH
3084PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3085
3086 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3087 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3088
3089 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3090 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3091 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3092
72fdd6ae
PH
3093PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3094
3095 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3096 not a single digit.
3097
3098 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3099 string.
3100
3101 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3102 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3103 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3104 silly things.
3105
3106 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3107 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3108
3109 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3110 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3111
cb741023
PH
3112PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3113 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3114 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3115
f174f16e
PH
3116PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3117 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3118
c25242d7
PH
3119PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3120 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3121
3122 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3123
3124 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3125 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3126 this:
3127
3128 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3129
82c19f95
PH
3130PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3131 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3132 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3133 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3134 identical. For example:
3135
3136 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3137
3138 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3139 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3140 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3141
d7ffbc12
PH
3142PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3143 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3144 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3145 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3146
9f526266
PH
3147PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3148 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3149 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3150 message.
3151
87fcc8b9
PH
3152PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3153
3154 o fixes some comments
3155 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3156 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3157 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3158 and documents the missing references header update
3159
3160 and most important:
3161
3162 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3163 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3164 result)
3165
456682f5
PH
3166PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3167 Electronic Mail") by including:
3168
3169 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3170
3171 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3172 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3173 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3174 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3175 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3176
3177 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3178
3179 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3180
3181 The auto-replied keyword:
3182
3183 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3184 message by an automatic process,
3185
3186 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3187
3188 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3189 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3190
3191 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3192 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3193 other messages.
3194
3e46c1aa
PH
3195PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3196 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3197
49826d12
PH
3198PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3199
eba0c039
PH
3200PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3201 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3202 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3203
a0d6ba8a
PH
3204PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3205 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3206 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3207
f0917727
PH
3208PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3209 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3210 and treats the condition as false.
3211
096fee00
PH
3212PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3213
024bd3c2
PH
3214PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3215 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3216 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3217 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3218 not changing the active code.
3219
3220 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3221 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3222
3223 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3224 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3225
df199fec
PH
3226PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3227 (Bugzilla #53).
3228
d27f1df3
PH
3229PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3230 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3231 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3232 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3233 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3234 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3235 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3236 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3237 the text comparison.
3238
96776534
PH
3239PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3240 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3241 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3242 The same fix has been applied.
3243
5de37277 3244
9a799bc0
PH
3245Exim version 4.54
3246-----------------
3247
3248PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3249 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3250 It now does.
3251
99a4b039
PH
3252PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3253 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3254
3255PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3256
4b233853
PH
3257PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3258 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3259 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3260 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3261 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3262
8857ccfd
PH
3263TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3264 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3265 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3266 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3267 or /domain=).
3268
433a2980
PH
3269PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3270 testing suite.
3271
3e46c1aa 3272
9a799bc0 3273
e3a311ba
TK
3274Exim version 4.53
3275-----------------
3276
3277TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3278 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3279
13b685f9
PH
3280PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3281
395ff96d
PH
3282PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3283
5b68f6e4
PH
3284PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3285 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3286 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3287
1ab52c69
PH
3288PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3289 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3290 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3291
b07e6aa3
PH
3292PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3293 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3294 operating systems.
3295
254e032f
PH
3296PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3297 ${stat: expansion item.
3298
3af76a81
PH
3299PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3300 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3301
2548ba04
PH
3302PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3303 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3304 file for comments.
3305
b6c6011d
PH
3306PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3307
cf39cf57
PH
3308PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3309 setting.
3310
f1513293
PH
3311PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3312 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3313
727549a4
PH
3314TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3315
af46795e
PH
3316PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3317 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3318 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3319 the end of the subprocess.
3320
d7b47fd0
PH
3321PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3322 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3323 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3324 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3325 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3326
ee744174
JJ
3327JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3328
b582ab87
PH
3329TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3330
41a13e0a
PH
3331PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3332 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3333
f625cc5a
PH
3334PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3335
3336PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3337
21f7af35
PH
3338PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3339 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3340 HP-UX compiler.
3341
31480e42
PH
3342PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3343
2d280592
PH
3344PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3345 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3346 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3347
7cd1141b
PH
3348PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3349 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3350
3351PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3352 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3353
750af86e
PH
3354PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3355 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3356
3357 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3358 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3359
3360 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3361 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3362 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3363 contributed by a Radius user.
3364
3365PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3366 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3367
4304270b
TK
3368TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3369 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3370
750af86e
PH
3371PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3372 available.
3373
64ffc24f
PH
3374PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3375 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3376 received.
3377
5dd9625b
PH
3378PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3379 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3380 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3381 header lines when this was not necessary.
3382
5591031b
PH
3383PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3384
ba18e66a
PH
3385PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3386 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3387 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3388 exists".
3389
9cec981f
PH
3390PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3391 -bV or -d is used.
3392
aa2b5c79
PH
3393PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3394 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3395 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3396 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3397
48a53b7f
PH
3398PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3399
1c59d63b
PH
3400PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3401
671012da
TK
3402TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3403
1509d3a8
PH
3404PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3405
3406PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3407 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3408 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3409 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3410 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3411 settings.
3412
3413PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3414
2fe1a124
PH
3415PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3416 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3417 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3418 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3419 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3420 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3421 which is clearly wrong.
3422
8800895a
PH
3423PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3424
ccfdb010
PH
3425PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3426 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3427 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3428 subsequently added.
3429
1130bfb0
PH
3430PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3431 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3432
ebcb507f
PH
3433PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3434
c35e155c
PH
3435PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3436 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3437
95d1f782
PH
3438PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3439 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3440
fd6de02e
PH
3441PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3442 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3443
58de37c5
PH
3444PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3445 recipients, not senders.
3446
261cf466
TF
3447TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3448 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3449
3ee512ff
PH
3450PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3451
e08c430f
PH
3452PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3453
bef5a11f
PH
3454PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3455 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3456 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3457 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3458
7546de58
TF
3459TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3460
e5d5a95f
TF
3461TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3462 clock is set back in time.
3463
2e88a017
TF
3464TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3465 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3466
a5f65aa4
TF
3467TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3468 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3469
e7726cbf
PH
3470PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3471 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3472 (see PH/47 above).
3473
a7fdad5b
TF
3474TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3475 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3476 header rewrites.
3477
6af56900
PH
3478PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3479 type ("H").
3480
0925ede6
PH
3481PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3482
66afa403
TF
3483TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3484 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3485 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3486
0154e85a
TF
3487TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3488 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3489 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3490 helo verification defer as a failure.
3491
16f12c76
PH
3492PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3493 actual error message.
3494
bbe902f0 3495
e5a9dba6
PH
3496Exim version 4.52
3497-----------------
3498
3499TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3500
22c3b60b
PH
3501PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3502 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3503 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3504 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3505
06a9b4b5
PH
3506TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3507
c1ac6996
PH
3508PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3509 can still be requested.
3510
9c7a242c
PH
3511PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3512 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3513 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3514 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3515
87ba3f5f
PH
3516TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3517 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3518 circumstances, but probably never did.
3519
3520PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3521 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3522 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3523 in the header line.
3524
29aba418
TF
3525TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3526
fe0dab11
TF
3527TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3528 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3529
11d337a4
TK
3530TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3531
3532TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3533
415c8f3b
PH
3534PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3535 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3536 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3537 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3538 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3539 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3540
958541e9
PH
3541PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3542 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3543 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3544 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3545 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3546 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3547
c206415f
TK
3548TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3549 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3550
2a4be8f9
PH
3551PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3552 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3553
1cba11c5
SC
3554SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3555 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3556
3557SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3558
3559SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3560
3561SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3562
3563SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3564
3565SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3566
3567SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3568
1005d00e
TK
3569TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3570
3571TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3572 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3573 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3574
3575TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3576 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3577 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3578 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3579
9b4768fa
PH
3580PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3581 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3582 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3583
3584PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3585 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3586 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3587 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3588
0d7eb84a
PH
3589PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3590 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3591 to be made).
3592
3593PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3594 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3595 should work with maildirs and everything.
3596
40727bee
TK
3597TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3598 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3599
554d2369
TF
3600TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3601 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3602
1f922db1
PH
3603PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3604 function for BDB 4.3.
3605
ef213c3b
PH
3606PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3607
8ac170f3
PH
3608PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3609 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3610 involved.
3611
b1c749bb
PH
3612PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3613 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3614 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3615 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3616 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3617 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3618
4aac9b49
PH
3619PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3620 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3621 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3622 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3623 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3624 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3625 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3626 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3627
294520c8
TK
3628TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3629 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3630 details.
3631
5bd022fe
PH
3632PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3633 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3634
90e9ce59
PH
3635PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3636 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3637 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3638 test. It is now used for both.
3639
5ea81592
PH
3640PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3641 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3642 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3643 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3644 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3645 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3646
c6c2dc1d
PH
3647PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3648 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3649 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3650 string_vformat().
3651
fffffe4c
PH
3652PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3653 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3654 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3655
9a26b6b2
PH
3656PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3657 experimental DomainKeys support:
3658
3659 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3660 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3661 the control was given.
3662
3663 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3664
4aee0225
PH
3665PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3666
32d668a5
PH
3667PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3668
8187c3f3
PH
3669PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3670 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3671 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3672 db.h files).
3673
ff790e47 3674PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3675 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3676 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3677 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3678 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3679 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3680 course.
ff790e47 3681
5417f6d1
PH
3682PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3683 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3684 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3685 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3686 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3687 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3688
59cf8544
PH
3689PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3690 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3691 do -d+all out of habit.
3692
e7ad8a65
PH
3693PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3694 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3695 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3696
ade42478
PH
3697PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3698 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3699 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3700 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3701 record types that Exim uses.
3702
182ad5cf
PH
3703PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3704 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3705 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3706 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3707 non-existent file that was broken.
3708
b0d9fc80
TK
3709TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3710 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3711
3712TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3713 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3714 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3715
3716TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3717
47c7a64a
PH
3718PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3719 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3720 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3721 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3722 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3723 same time.
3724
a388bce4
SC
3725SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3726 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3727 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3728 at a slight CPU cost.
3729
3730SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3731 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3732
3733SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3734 by Marc Sherman.
3735
0793e4ed
SC
3736SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3737
c58b88df
PH
3738PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3739 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3740
e7ad8a65 3741
7982096b
PH
3742Exim version 4.51
3743-----------------
3744
1a46a8c5
PH
3745TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3746 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3747
2f079f46 3748TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3749
3750TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3751
3752PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3753 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3754
3755PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3756 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3757 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3758 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3759 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3760 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3761 file.
3762
3763PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3764 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3765 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3766 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3767 these two options.
3768
3769PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3770 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3771 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3772 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3773 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3774 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3775 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3776 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3777
3778PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3779 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3780
3781PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3782 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3783 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3784 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3785 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3786 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3787
3788PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3789 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3790 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3791 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3792
3793PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3794 Finch).
3795
3796PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3797 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3798
49c2d5ea
PH
3799PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3800 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3801 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3802 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3803 message.
49c2d5ea 3804
bf759a8b
PH
3805PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3806
83364d30
PH
3807PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3808 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3809
7999bbd7
PH
3810PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3811 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3812 to what was transported.)
3813
7dbf77c9
PH
3814TF/01 Added $received_time.
3815
74e0617f
PH
3816PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3817 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3818 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3819 spamd_address settings.
3820
2f079f46
PH
3821PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3822 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3823 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3824 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3825 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3826
8c841523
PH
3827PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3828
7766a4f0
PH
3829PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3830 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3831 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3832 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3833 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3834
8b417f2c
PH
3835PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3836 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3837
901f42cb
PH
3838PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3839 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3840 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3841 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3842 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3843 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3844 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3845 for failure.
3846
f9b9210e
PH
3847PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3848 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3849 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3850 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3851 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3852 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3853 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3854 "input=".
3855
54cdb463
PH
3856PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3857
cf00dad6
PH
3858PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3859 driver and ACL definitions.
3860
acb1b346
PH
3861PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3862 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3863
c5ddb310
PH
3864PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3865 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3866 understands it better than I do:
3867
3868 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3869 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3870
3871 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3872 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3873 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3874 => three warnings about OTP not working
3875 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3876
3877 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3878 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3879 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3880 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3881 for each call.)
3882 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3883 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3884
3885 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3886 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3887 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3888
31619da6
PH
3889PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3890 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3891 specified.
3892
bebaf0fc
PH
3893PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3894 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3895 "Linux".
3896
475fe28a
PH
3897PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3898 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3899 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3900
3901 warn !verify = sender
3902 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3903
3904 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3905 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3906
7e8bec7a
PH
3907PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3908
3909 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3910 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3911
3912 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3913 nomenclature these days.)
3914
e4a89c47
PH
3915PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3916 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3917
5ca2a9a1
PH
3918PH/30 In these circumstances:
3919 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3920 . First host does not offer TLS;
3921 . First host accepts first address;
3922 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3923 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3924 . Second host accepts second address.
3925 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3926 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3927 address.
7e8bec7a 3928
c688b954
PH
3929PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3930 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3931 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3932 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3933 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3934
fed77020
PH
3935PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3936 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3937
7fe1560f
PH
3938PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3939 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3940
ebb6e6d5
PH
3941PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3942 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3943 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3944
9c4e8f60
PH
3945PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3946 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3947 overlooked.
3948
3949PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3950
d7174846
PH
3951PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3952 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3953 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3954 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3955 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3956 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3957 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3958
3959 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3960 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3961 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3962 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3963 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3964
3965 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3966 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3967 routed further.
3968
cfe75fc3
PH
3969PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3970 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3971 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3972 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3973 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3974 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3975
be22d70e
PH
3976PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3977
0612b098
PH
3978PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3979 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3980 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3981 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3982 printable escape sequences.
3983
2e0c1448
PH
3984PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3985 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3986 body only.
3987
447d236c
PH
3988PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3989 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3990 are as follows:
3991
3992 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3993 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3994 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3995 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3996 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3997
3998 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3999 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4000 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4001
d20976dc
PH
4002PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4003
f656d135
PH
4004PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4005 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4006 play with."
4007
2e2a30b4
PH
4008PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4009 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4010 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4011 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4012 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4013 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4014 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4015 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4016 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4017 the log output.
4018
9176e9f0
PH
4019PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4020 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4021 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4022 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4023 "make".
4024
7982096b 4025
bbe902f0
PH
4026A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4027----------------------------------------
4028
4029Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4030changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4031needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4032in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4033that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4034release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4035from 4.43.
4036
4037I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
40384.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4039those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4040historical information.
4041
4042
f7b63901 4043Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4044-----------------
4045
5fe762f6
PH
4046 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4047
139059f6 4048 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4049 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4050
7086e875
PH
4051 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4052 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4053 place.
4054
35af9f61
PH
4055 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4056 filter fails to execute.
4057
b668c215
PH
4058 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4059 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4060 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4061 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4062 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4063
a494b1e1
PH
4064 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4065
4066 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4067 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4068 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4069 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4070
c5fcb476
PH
4071 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4072 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4073 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4074 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4075 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4076
69358f02
PH
4077 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4078
5be20824
PH
407910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4080
eb2c0248
PH
408111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4082 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4083 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4084 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4085
2a3eea10
PH
408612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4087 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4088 sender verification.
4089
409013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4091 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4092
23c7ff99
PH
409314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4094
4deaf07d
PH
409515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4096 connection timeout.
4097
926e1192
PH
409816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4099 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4100
650edc6f
PH
410117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4102 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4103
2c7db3f5
PH
410418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4105 information about exactly what failed.
4106
3d235903
PH
410719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4108
7c7ad977
PH
410920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4110 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4111 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4112
981756db
PH
411321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4114 It is now set to "smtps".
4115
d4eb88df
PH
411622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4117 ignore_target_hosts.
4118
411923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4120 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4121 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4122 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4123 "[x.x.x.x]".
4124
7d468ab8
PH
412524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4126 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4127 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4128
412925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4130 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4131 wake it up if nothing else does.
4132
62c0818f
PH
413326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4134 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4135 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4136 end up negative.
4137
26034054
PH
413827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4139 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4140
af66f652
PH
414128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4142
90af77f4
PH
414329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4144 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4145 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4146 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4147 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4148 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4149 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4150 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4151
d8ef3577
PH
415230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4153 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4154 than one IP address.
4155
5cb8cbc6
PH
415631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4157 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4158 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4159 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4160
14702f5b
PH
416132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4162 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4163 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4164 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4165 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4166 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4167
063b1e99
PH
416833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4169 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4170 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4171 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4172
652e1b65
PH
417334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4174 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4175 respected.
4176
6f0c9a4f
PH
417735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4178 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4179 $sender_host_address.
4180
33397d19
PH
418136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4182 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4183 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4184 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4185 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4186 very small.
4187
7bb56e1f
PH
418837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4189
4190 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4191 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4192
ea3bc19b
PH
4193 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4194 just the host names, not the priorities.
4195
4196 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4197 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4198 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4199
ea3bc19b 4200 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4201 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4202
0bcb2a0e
PH
420338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4204 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4205 domain.
4206
2ac0e484
PH
420739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4208
4e1fde53
PH
420940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4210 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4211
de365ded
PH
421241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4213 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4214 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4215
f05da2e8
PH
421642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4217
d6453af2
PH
421843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4219
f7b63901
PH
422044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4221
422245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4223 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4224 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4225 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4226 because the tests only now provoked it.
4227
a444213a
PH
422846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4229 (this can affect the format of dates).
4230
0ec020ea
PH
423147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4232 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4233 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4234 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4235
b1206957
PH
423648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4237
423849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4239 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4240 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4241 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4242
26dd5a95
PH
424350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4244 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4245 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4246
343b2385
PH
424751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4248 autoreply.
4249
1c5466b9
PH
425052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4251 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4252 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4253 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4254 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4255 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4256 is going on).
4257
55ee9ee3
PH
425853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4259 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4260 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4261 the line.
4262
d38f8232
PH
426354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4264 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4265 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4266
4267 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4268 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4269 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4270 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4271 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4272 so I produce this patch..."
4273
3295e65b
PH
4274 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4275 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4276 is not defined.
4277
7102e136
PH
427855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4279 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4280 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4281 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4282 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4283
3ca0ba97
PH
428456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4285
c2bcbe20
PH
428657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4287 long debug lines gets shown.
4288
18ce445d
PH
428958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4290 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4291
1f5b4c3d
PH
429259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4293
4294 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4295 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4296 of $primary_hostname.
4297
b975ba52
PH
429860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4299 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4300 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4301 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4302 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4303 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4304 by change 4.50/55 above.
4305
4306 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4307 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4308 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4309 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4310 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4311 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4312 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4313
431461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4315 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4316 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4317 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4318
17ffcae7
PH
431962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4320 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4321
d95f9fdb
PH
432263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4323 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4324 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4325 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4326 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4327
86b8287f
PH
432864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4329 This has been fixed.
4330
60dc5e56
PH
433165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4332 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4333 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4334 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4335 the caching.)
4336
533244af
PH
433766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4338
a5a28604
PH
433967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4340 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4341 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4342 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4343
7e634d24
PH
434468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4345 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4346
3e11c26b
PH
434769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4348 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4349 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4350
6729cf78
PH
435170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4352 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4353 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4354 message there.
4355
00f00ca5
PH
435671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4357 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4358 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4359
c9bdd01c
PH
436072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4361 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4362 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4363 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4364
d43194df
PH
436573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4366 during host lookups.
4367
fe5b5d0b
PH
436874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4369 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4370
4371 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4372
76a2d7ba
PH
437375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4374 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4375 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4376 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4377 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4378 background.
4379
438076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4381 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4382
04f7d5b9
PH
438377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4384 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4385 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4386
bc60667e
PH
438778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4388
bb6e88ff
PH
438979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4390 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4391 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4392 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4393 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4394 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4395 process earlier.
4396
1e70f85b
PH
439780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4398 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4399 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4400 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4401 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4402
440381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4404 tables).
4405
4e01f9d6
PH
440682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4407
1ee1cef2
PH
440883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4409 "vacation" handling.
4410
6e2b4ccc
PH
441184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4412 OS variants using glibc.
4413
8e669ac1
PH
441485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4415
495ae4b0 4416
bbe902f0
PH
4417----------------------------------------------------
4418See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4419----------------------------------------------------
4420
4421
4422Exim version 4.44
4423-----------------
4424
4425 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4426 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4427 transport
4428
4429 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4430 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4431 place.
4432
4433 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4434 filter fails to execute.
4435
4436 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4437 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4438 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4439 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4440 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4441
4442 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4443 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4444 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4445 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4446
4447 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4448 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4449 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4450 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4451 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4452
4453 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4454
4455 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4456 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4457 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4458 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4459
4460 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4461 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4462 sender verification.
4463
446410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4465 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4466
446711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4468 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4469
447012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4471 ignore_target_hosts.
4472
447313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4474 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4475 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4476 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4477 "[x.x.x.x]".
4478
447914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4480 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4481 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4482
448315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4484 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4485 wake it up if nothing else does.
4486
448716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4488 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4489 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4490 end up negative.
4491
449217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4493 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4494
ea3a6f44 449518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4496
449719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4498 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4499 empty pattern.
4500
450120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4502 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4503 one IP address.
4504
ea3a6f44
NM
450521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4506 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4507 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4508 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4509 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4510 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4511
ea3a6f44
NM
451222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4513 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4514 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4515
451623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4517 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4518 $sender_host_address.
4519
452024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4521
ea3a6f44
NM
452225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4523 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4524 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4525
452626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4527 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4528
ea3a6f44
NM
452927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4530 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4531
ea3a6f44
NM
453228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4533 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4534 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4535 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4536
453729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4538 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4539 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4540
ea3a6f44
NM
454130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4542 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4543 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4544 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4545
ea3a6f44
NM
454631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4547 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4548 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4549
ea3a6f44
NM
455031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4551 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4552
ea3a6f44
NM
455332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4554 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4555 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4556 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4557 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4558 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4559 is going on).
bbe902f0 4560
ea3a6f44
NM
456133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4562 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4563 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4564 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4565 CAN-2005-0021
4566
ea3a6f44
NM
456734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4568 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4569 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4570 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4571 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4572 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4573 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4574
4575 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4576 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4577 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4578 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4579 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4580 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4581 CAN-2005-0021
4582
ea3a6f44
NM
458335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4584 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4585 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4586 CAN-2005-0022
4587
ea3a6f44
NM
458836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4589 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4590 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4591 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4592 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4593
ea3a6f44
NM
459437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4595 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4596 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4597 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4598 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4599
ea3a6f44
NM
460038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4601 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4602 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4603 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4604 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4605
4606
495ae4b0
PH
4607Exim version 4.43
4608-----------------
4609
4610 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4611 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4612 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4613 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4614 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4615 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4616 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4617
4618 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4619 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4620 the delivery.
4621
4622 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4623
4624 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4625
4626 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4627 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4628 to local_scan().
4629
4630 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4631 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4632 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4633 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4634 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4635
4636 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4637 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4638
4639 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4640
4641 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4642
464310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4644 header_sender only.
4645
464611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4647 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4648
464912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4650 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4651 affecting debugging statements).
4652
465313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4654
465514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4656 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4657 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4658 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4659 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4660 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4661 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4662 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4663 after the received time, and all would be well.
4664
466515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4666 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4667 condition in an expansion string.
4668
466916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4670
467117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4672 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4673 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4674 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4675 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4676 job under whatever limits there are.
4677
467818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4679
468019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4681 space).
4682
468320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4684 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4685 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4686 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4687 return path is set.
4688
468921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4690 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4691 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4692 binary data in such strings.
4693
469422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4695
469623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4697 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4698 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4699 failure, which is pointless.
4700
470124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4702
470325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4704
470526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4706 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4707 Sender: header lines.
4708
470927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4710 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4711 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4712
471328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4714 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4715 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4716 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4717 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4718 happens.
4719
472029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4721 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4722 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4723 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4724 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4725
472630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4727 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4728 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4729 1024.
4730
473131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4732 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4733
473432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4735 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4736
473733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4738
473932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4740
474133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4742
474334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4744 syntax error.
4745
474635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4747
474836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4749
475037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4751 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4752 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4753 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4754
475538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4756 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4757
4758
4759Exim version 4.42
4760-----------------
4761
4762 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4763 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4764 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4765 it was not quoted.
4766 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4767 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4768 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4769 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4770 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4771 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4772
4773 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4774 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4775 verification failure".
4776
4777 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4778 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4779 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4780 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4781
4782 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4783 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4784 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4785 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4786 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4787 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4788 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4789 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4790 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4791 treated as a timeout.
4792
4793 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4794 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4795 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4796 not set for Exim filters).
4797
4798 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4799 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4800 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4801
4802 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4803
4804 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4805 try to make them clearer.
4806
4807 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4808 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4809
4810 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4811
4812 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4813
481410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4815 only the Cygwin environment.
4816
481711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4818 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4819 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4820 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4821 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4822
482312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4824 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4825 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4826 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4827 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4828 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4829 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4830
483113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4832 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4833
483414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4835
4836 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4837 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4838 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4839
4840 To: susanne@some.where
4841
4842 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4843 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4844 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4845 of addresses in From: header lines).
4846
4847 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4848 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4849 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4850
4851 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4852 treated as non-personal.
4853
4854 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4855 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4856
485715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4858
485916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4860
486117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4862 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4863 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4864
486518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4866 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4867
486819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4869 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4870 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4871 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4872 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4873 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4874
487520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4876 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4877 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4878 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4879 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4880 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4881 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4882 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4883
4884 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4885
488621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4887 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4888
488922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4890 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4891 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4892
489323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4894 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4895
489624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4897 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4898 rather than long int.
4899
490025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4901
490226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4903
4904
4905Exim version 4.41
4906-----------------
4907
4908 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4909 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4910 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4911 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4912 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4913 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4914
4915
4916Exim version 4.40
4917-----------------
4918
4919 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4920 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4921
4922 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4923 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4924 socklen_t is defined.
4925
4926 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4927 always exist.
4928
4929 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4930 configured.
4931
4932 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4933 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4934 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4935 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4936 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4937
4938 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4939 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4940 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4941 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4942
4943 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4944 of flapping under certain conditions.
4945
4946 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4947 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4948 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4949
4950 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4951
495210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4953
495411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4955 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4956 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4957 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4958
495912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4960 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4961 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4962 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4963 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4964 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4965 preserved with the message after it was received.
4966
496713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4968 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4969 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4970 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4971 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4972 test suite worked just fine.
4973
497414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4975 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4976 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4977
497815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4979 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4980 string.
4981
498216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4983 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4984 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4985 does not fully solve it.
4986
498717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4988 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4989 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4990 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4991 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4992
499318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4994 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4995 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4996
499719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4998 string, for example:
4999
5000 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5001
5002 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5003 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5004 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5005 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5006 the routers could not see them.
5007
500820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5009 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5010
501121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5012 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5013 output).
5014
501522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5016 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5017 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5018 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5019 that needed quoting.
5020
502123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5022 was not being matched caselessly.
5023
502424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5025 backslashes.
5026
502725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5028 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5029 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5030 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5031 when use_sender is false.
5032
503326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5034
503527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5036
503728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5038
503929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5040 the configuration file.
5041
504230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5043 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5044
504531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5046
504732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5048 bytes in the message body.
5049
505033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5051 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5052 delivery.
5053
505434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5055
505635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5057
505836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5059 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5060 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5061 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5062 another IP address.
5063
5064
5065Exim version 4.34
5066-----------------
5067
5068 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5069 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5070
5071 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5072 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5073 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5074 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5075 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5076
5077 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5078 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5079
5080 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5081 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5082 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5083
5084 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5085 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5086 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5087
5088 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5089 for routers.
5090
5091 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5092 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5093 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5094 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5095 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5096 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5097 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5098
5099
5100Exim version 4.33
5101-----------------
5102
5103 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5104 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5105 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5106 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5107 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5108 default (and expected) setting.
5109
5110 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5111 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5112 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5113 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5114
5115 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5116 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5117
5118 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5119 in domain lists.
5120
5121 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5122 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5123 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5124 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5125 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5126 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5127
5128 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5129 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5130 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5131
5132 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5133 part (NOT match_host).
5134
5135 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5136
5137 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5138 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5139 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5140 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5141 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5142 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5143 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5144 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5145 the same named file.
5146
514710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5148 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5149 when Exim is built.
5150
515111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5152 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5153 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5154 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5155 a host name.
5156
515712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5158 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5159 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5160
516113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5162
516314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5164
516515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5166
516716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5168 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5169
517017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5171 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5172 before starting the TLS session.
5173
517418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5175
517619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5177 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5178
517920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5180 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5181 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5182 colon in the middle).
5183
5184
5185Exim version 4.32
5186-----------------
5187
5188 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5189 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5190 multiple configurations are in use.
5191
5192 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5193 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5194 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5195 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5196 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5197 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5198
5199 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5200 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5201
5202 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5203 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5204 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5205
5206 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5207 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5208 occurs.
5209
5210 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5211 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5212
5213 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5214
5215 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5216 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5217
5218 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5219
5220 -prval:sval
5221
5222 is equivalent to
5223
5224 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5225
5226 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5227 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5228 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5229 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5230 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5231
523210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5233 Exim's behaviour:
5234
5235 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5236 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5237 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5238 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5239 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5240 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5241
5242 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5243 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5244 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5245 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5246 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5247 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5248 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5249 string.
5250
5251 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5252 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5253 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5254 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5255 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5256
525711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5258
525912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5260 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5261 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5262
526313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5264
526514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5266 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5267 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5268 information.
5269
527015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5271 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5272
527316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5274 Three changes have been made:
5275
5276 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5277 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5278 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5279 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5280 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5281
5282 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5283 been restored.
5284
5285 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5286 the modified behaviour.
5287
5288
5289Exim version 4.31
5290-----------------
5291
5292 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5293 Larry Rosenman.
5294
5295 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5296 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5297
5298 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5299 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5300 try to track down a specific problem.
5301
5302 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5303 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5304 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5305
5306 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5307 warning.
5308
5309 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5310 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5311 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5312 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5313 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5314 some earlier ones do not.
5315
5316 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5317
5318 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5319 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5320 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5321 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5322 address literals are enabled, of course).
5323
5324 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5325
532610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5327 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5328 by a command such as
5329
5330 exim -f "" ...
5331
5332 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5333
533411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5335
533612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5337 remained set. It is now erased.
5338
533913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5340 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5341
534214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5343 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5344 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5345 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5346 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5347 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5348 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5349 appropriate error code.
5350
535115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5352 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5353 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5354 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5355 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5356 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5357
535816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5359 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5360 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5361
536217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5363 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5364 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5365 terminate the header.
5366
536718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5368 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5369 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5370
537119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5372 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5373 (4.30/29). In particular:
5374
5375 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5376 imposed.
5377
5378 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5379 to write a maildirsize file.
5380
5381 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5382 the transport, the new value overrides.
5383
5384 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5385 count.
5386
538720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5388 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5389 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5390 space or a tab.
5391
539221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5393 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5394 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5395 the fallback hosts.
5396
539722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5398 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5399 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5400
540123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5402 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5403 using a union.
5404
540524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5406 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5407 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5408
540925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5410
541126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5412
541327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5414
541528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5416 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5417 become corrupted.
5418
541929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5420 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5421 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5422 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5423 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5424 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5425 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5426 too great.
5427
542830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5429 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5430 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5431 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5432 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5433 incorrectly.
5434
543531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5436 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5437 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5438 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5439 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5440 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5441 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5442 cached value only when the same options are set.
5443
544432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5445
544633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5447 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5448 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5449 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5450 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5451
545234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5453 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5454 it is clearly obsolete.
5455
545635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5457 transport.
5458
545936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5460 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5461 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5462 times.
5463
546437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5465 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5466 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5467 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5468 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5469
547038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5471 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5472 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5473 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5474
547539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5476
5477 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5478
5479 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5480 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5481 2^31.
5482
548340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5484 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5485 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5486 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5487 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5488 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5489 $localpart_data.
5490
549141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5492 with the -f command-line option.
5493
549442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5495 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5496 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5497 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5498 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5499 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5500
550143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5502 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5503 line.
5504
550544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5506 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5507 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5508 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5509 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5510 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5511 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5512 buffer is too small.
5513
551445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5515 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5516
551746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5518 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5519 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5520 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5521 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5522 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5523 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5524 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5525 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5526
552747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5528 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5529 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5530
553148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5532 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5533 ACL").
5534
553549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5536 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5537 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5538 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5539 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5540
554150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5542 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5543 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5544 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5545 is set.
5546
554751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5548
554952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5550
555153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5552 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5553
555454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5555 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5556 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5557
555855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5559 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5560 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5561 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5562 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5563
556456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5565 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5566 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5567 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5568 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5569 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5570 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5571
557257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5573 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5574 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5575 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5576 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5577 the test of how many are available.
5578
557958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5580 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5581 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5582 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5583 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5584 new message is started.
5585
558659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5587 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5588
558960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5590 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5591
559261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5593 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5594 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5595 is no long logged.
5596
559762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5598 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5599 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5600 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5601 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5602 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5603 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5604
560563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5606 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5607 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5608 interpreted as octal.
5609
561064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5611 setting.
5612
561365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5614 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5615 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5616 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5617 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5618 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5619
562066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5621 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5622 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5623 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5624
5625 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5626 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5627 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5628 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5629
5630 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5631 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5632 is a bug fix.
5633
5634 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5635 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5636
563767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5638
563968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5640 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5641 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5642 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5643
564469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5645 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5646 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5647 supplied", which is not helpful.
5648
564970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5650 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5651 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5652
565371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5654 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5655 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5656 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5657 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5658 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5659 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5660 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5661
566272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5663 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5664 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5665 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5666 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5667
566873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5669 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5670 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5671 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5672 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5673 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5674
567574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5676 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5677 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5678
567975. Added write_rejectlog option.
5680
568176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5682 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5683 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5684 variables.
5685
568677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5687
568878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5689 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5690 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5691 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5692 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5693 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5694 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5695 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5696
569779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5698 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5699 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5700 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5701 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5702
570380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5704 Haardt.
5705
570681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5707 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5708 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5709 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5710 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5711 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5712 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5713 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5714 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5715
5716
5717Exim version 4.30
5718-----------------
5719
5720 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5721 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5722 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5723
5724 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5725 fixed.
5726
5727 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5728 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5729 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5730
5731 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5732 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5733 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5734 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5735 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5736 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5737
5738 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5739 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5740 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5741 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5742 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5743 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5744 the Exim test suite.
5745
5746 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5747 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5748 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5749 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5750
5751 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5752 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5753 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5754 specify it in this variable.
5755
5756 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5757 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5758 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5759 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5760
5761 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5762 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5763 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5764 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5765
5766 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5767 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5768 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5769 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5770 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5771
5772 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5773
577410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5775 they are logged.
5776
577711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5778 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5779 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5780 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5781 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5782
578312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5784 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5785
578613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5787 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5788 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5789 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5790 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5791
579214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5793 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5794
579515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5796 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5797 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5798
579916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5800 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5801
580217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5803 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5804
580518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5806 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5807 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5808
580919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5810 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5811
581220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5813 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5814 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5815 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5816
581721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5818
581922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5820 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5821 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5822 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5823
582423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5825
582624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5827 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5828
582925. Added .include_if_exists.
5830
583126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5832 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5833 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5834 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5835 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5836 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5837
583827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5839
584028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5841 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5842 this.
5843
584429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5845
584630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5847 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5848
5849 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5850 550 Sender verify failed
5851
5852 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5853 the final line of the response.
5854
585531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5856 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5857 all other user lookups.
5858
585932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5860 delivery time.
5861
586233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5863 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5864 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5865 result into an int without checking.
5866
586734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5868 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5869 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5870
587135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5872 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5873 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5874 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5875
587636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5877 correctly.
5878
587937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5880 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5881
588238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5883 to the empty sender.
5884
588539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5886 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5887 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5888 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5889 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5890 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5891 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5892 panic log.
5893
589440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5895 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5896 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5897 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5898 used.
5899
590041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5901 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5902
590342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5904 timestamps.
5905
590643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5907 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5908
590944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5910
591145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5912 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5913 logs.
5914
591546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5916 as soon as it is encountered.
5917
591847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5919
592048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5921 rewritten to "<>".
5922
592349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5924 recognizes a tab character.
5925
592650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5927 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5928 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5929 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5930
593151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5932
593352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5934 crash.
5935
593653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5937
593854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5939
594055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5941 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5942 2822.
5943
594456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5945 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5946 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5947 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5948 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5949
595057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5951 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5952
595358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5954 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5955 list (.included file names were always shown).
5956
595759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5958 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5959 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5960 root at that time.
5961
596260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5963 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5964
596561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5966
596762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5968
596963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5970
597164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5972 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5973 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5974 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5975 failures to open the logs.
5976
597765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5978 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5979 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5980 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5981 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5982 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5983 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5984
5985
5986Exim version 4.24
5987-----------------
5988
5989 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5990 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5991 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5992 change 4.23/1.
5993
5994 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5995 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5996 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5997
5998 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5999 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6000 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6001
6002 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6003 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6004 causing some misleading effects.
6005
6006 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6007 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6008 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6009
6010 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6011 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6012 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6013 queue-runner function directly.
6014
6015
6016Exim version 4.23
6017-----------------
6018
6019 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6020 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6021
6022 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6023 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6024 was always written to the default place.
6025
6026 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6027 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6028 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6029
6030 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6031
6032 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6033
6034 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6035 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6036 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6037
6038 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6039 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6040 must start.
6041
6042 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6043 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6044 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6045
6046 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6047 command line option is disabled.
6048
6049 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6050 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6051
6052 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6053
6054 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6055
6056 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6057 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6058
605910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6060
606111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6062 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6063 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6064 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6065 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6066 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6067
606812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6069 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6070 timeout.
6071
607213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6073 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6074
607514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6076 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6077
607815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6079 received was valid base64.
6080
608116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6082 name of the variable that was being set.
6083
608417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6085
608618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6087 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6088 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6089 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6090 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6091 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6092
609319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6094
609520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6096 nor realm was specified.
6097
609821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6099 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6100 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6101 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6102
610322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6104 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6105 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6106
610723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6108 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6109 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6110
611124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6112 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6113 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6114 some systems use these upper case variants.
6115
611625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6117 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6118 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6119 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6120
612126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6122
612327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6124 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6125
612628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6127 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6128 expansion variable.
6129
613029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6131
613230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6133 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6134 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6135 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6136
613731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6138 using it.
6139
614032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6141 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6142 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6143
614433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6145 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6146
614734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6148 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6149 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6150 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6151
615235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6153 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6154 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6155
615636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6157
615837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6159 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6160 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6161 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6162 aborted.
6163
616438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6165 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6166 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6167
616839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6169
617040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6171 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6172
617341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6174 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6175
617642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6177 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6178 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6179 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6180 when emails are that large.
6181
6182
6183
6184Exim version 4.22
6185-----------------
6186
6187 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6188 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6189
6190 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6191 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6192 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6193
6194 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6195 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6196 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6197
6198 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6199 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6200 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6201 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6202 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6203
6204 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6205 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6206 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6207 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6208 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6209 ever.
6210
6211 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6212 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6213 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6214 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6215 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6216 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6217 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6218 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6219 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6220 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6221 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6222 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6223 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6224 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6225
6226 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6227 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6228 parameterised it.
6229
6230 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6231 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6232 error should be diagnosed.
6233
6234 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6235 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6236 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6237 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6238 appeared instead of "NULL".
6239
624010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6241 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6242 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6243 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6244 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6245 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6246 proceeds).
6247
6248 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6249 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6250 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6251
6252
6253Exim version 4.21
6254-----------------
6255
6256 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6257 or receiver verification errors.
6258
6259 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6260 name.
6261
6262 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6263 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6264 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6265 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6266
6267 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6268 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6269 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6270 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6271 shouldn't happen again.
6272
6273 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6274 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6275 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6276
6277 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6278 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6279
6280 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6281
6282 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6283 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6284
6285 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6286 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6287 RFC.
6288
628910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6290 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6291 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6292
629311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6294 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6295 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6296 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6297
629812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6299 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6300 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6301 to define what should happen).
6302
630313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6304 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6305 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6306
630714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6308
630915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6310
631116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6312 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6313
631417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6315 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6316 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6317 structure in all cases.
6318
6319 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6320 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6321 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6322 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6323
632418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6325 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6326 domain name.
6327
632819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6329 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6330
633120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6332 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6333
633421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6335 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6336 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6337
633822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6339 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6340 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6341
634223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6343 the book and for uniformity.
6344
634524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6346
634725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6348 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6349 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6350 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6351 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6352 non-existent command as the problem.
6353
635426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6355 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6356 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6357
635827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6359
636028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6361 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6362 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6363
636429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6365 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6366 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6367 timestamps using strftime().
6368
636930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6370 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6371
637232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6373 transport-time rewrites.
6374
637533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6376 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6377 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6378 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6379
638034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6381 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6382
638335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6384 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6385 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6386 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6387 comma and a space.
6388
638936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6390 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6391 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6392 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6393 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6394 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6395 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6396
639737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6398 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6399 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6400 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6401 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6402
640338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6404 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6405 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6406 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6407 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6408 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6409 remaining text gets split now.
6410
641139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6412 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6413 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6414 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6415
641640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6417 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6418 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6419 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6420 $return_path.
6421
642241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6423 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6424 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6425 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6426 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6427 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6428 passed through if needed.
6429
643042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6431 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6432 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6433 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6434 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6435 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6436
643743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6438 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6439 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6440 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6441 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6442
644344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6444 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6445 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6446 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6447 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6448
644945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6450 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6451 noticed.
6452
645346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6454 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6455 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6456 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6457 mayhem of various kinds.
6458
645947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6460 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6461 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6462 the right test for positive values.
6463
646448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6465 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6466 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6467 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6468 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6469 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6470 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6471 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6472 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6473 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6474 envelope.
6475
647649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6477 module.
6478
647950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6480 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6481 forbidding it.
6482
648351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6484 the existing equality matching.
6485
648652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6487 dealing with inode numbers.
6488
648953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6490 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6491 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6492
649354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6494 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6495 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6496 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6497 local_scan().
6498
649955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6500 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6501 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6502 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6503 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6504 relay addresses has also been removed.
6505
650656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6507
650857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6509 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6510 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6511
651258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6513 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6514 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6515 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6516 processing applies to CR:
6517
6518 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6519 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6520
6521 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6522 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6523 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6524 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6525
652659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6527 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6528 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6529
653060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6531 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6532 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6533 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6534 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6535 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6536 arisen.
6537
653861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6539 program routers.
6540
654162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6542 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6543 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6544 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6545 adds:
6546
6547 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6548
6549 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6550
6551 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6552
655363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6554 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6555 not considered personal.
6556
655764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6558
655965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6560
656166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6562
656367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6564 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6565 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6566 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6567 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6568 header lines, and spool format errors.
6569
657068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6571 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6572 for more flexibility.
6573
657469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6575 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6576 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6577
657870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6579 Sabourenkov.
6580
658171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6582 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6583 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6584 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6585 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6586 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6587 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6588 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6589 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6590
659172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6592 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6593 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6594 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6595 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6596 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6597 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6598
659973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6600 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6601 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6602
660374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6604 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6605 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6606 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6607 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6608 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6609 instead of killing the process with assert().
6610
661175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6612 than Unicode encoding.
6613
661476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6615 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6616 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6617 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6618
661977. Added process_log_path.
6620
662178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6622 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6623
662479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6625 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6626
662780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6628 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6629 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6630
663181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6632 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6633 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6634 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6635 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6636 were applied:
6637
6638 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6639 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6640 as invalid.
6641
664282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6643 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6644 they will be used during message reception.
6645
6646
6647Exim version 4.20
6648-----------------
6649
6650The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6651
6652****