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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
9
10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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28 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
29 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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31JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
32
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33TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
34 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
35
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36PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
37 not dns_use_dnssec.
38
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39JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
40
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41TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
42 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
43 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
44
8ddef691 45TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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46 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
47 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
48 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
49 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 50 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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52JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
53
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54JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
55 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
56
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57JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
58 failed delivery.
59
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60JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
61
511a6c14 62JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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63
64JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
65 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 66
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67JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
68 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
69
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70TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
71
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72JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
73
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74JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
75 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
76
77 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
78 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
79 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
80
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81TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
82 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
83 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
84 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 85
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86JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
87
8c51eead 88JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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89 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
90 lookup).
8c51eead 91
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92TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
93 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
94 Schlichting.
35aba663 95
fd3b6a4a 96JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 97 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 98
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99TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
100 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
101
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102JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
103
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104TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
105 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
106 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
107
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108JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
109 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
110
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111JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
112 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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113 hosts_request_ocsp.
114
ed3bba5f 115JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 116 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 117 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 118
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119JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
120
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121TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
122 Christian Aistleitner.
123
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124JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
125
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126TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
127 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
128
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129JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
130 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
131
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132JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
133 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
134
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135TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
136 support and error reporting did not work properly.
137
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2c422e6f 139Exim version 4.82
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142PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
143
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144PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
145 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
146
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147PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
148 by GnuTLS.
149
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150PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
151 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
152 routines.
153
13363eba 154PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 155
66645890 156PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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157 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
158 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
159 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
160 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 161
a3fb9793 162PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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163 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
164 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
165 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 166 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 167 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 168
d27f98fe 169TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 170
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171TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
172
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173TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
174 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
175
ae0e32ee 176TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 177 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 178 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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180TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 181
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182TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
183
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184TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
185 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
186
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187JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
188
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189JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
190
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191PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
192
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193NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
194 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 195
585121e2 196JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 197
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198PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
199 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
200 function.
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202PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
203 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
204
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205JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
206 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
207 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 208
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209JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
210
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211JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
212
ea722490 213JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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214 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
215
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216JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
217 Bugzilla 884.
218
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219JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
220 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
221
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222JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
223 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
224
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225PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
226 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 227 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 228
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229JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
230 authenticators.
231
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232JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
233 for control.
234
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235PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
236
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237PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
238 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
239 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
240 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
241
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242TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
243
244 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
245 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
246 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
247 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
248 the retry rules.
249
250 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
251 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
252 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
253
254 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
255 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
256 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
257 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
258
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259 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
260 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
261 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
262 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
263 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
264 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
265 delivery, as in LMTP.
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266
267 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
268 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
269
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270TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
271
272 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
273
274 Resent-From: f
275
276 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
277 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
278 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
279 username as equal to the username.
280
281 This change corrects that bug.
282
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283GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
284 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
285 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
286
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287TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
288
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289PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
290 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
291 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
292 NULL dereference and crash.
293
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294JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
295
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296PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
297 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
298 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
299
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300SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
301
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302JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
303 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
304 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
305 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
306 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
307 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
308 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
309 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
310 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
311 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
312 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
313
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314PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
315 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
316
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317PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
318 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
319 Bugzilla 880.
320
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321PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
322 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
323 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
324 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
325 an empty string is now equivalent.
326
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327PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
328 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
329 not performing validation itself.
330
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331PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
332 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
333
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334JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
335 Bugzilla 321, 823.
336
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337TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
338
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339PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
340 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
341 other false fix of the same issue.
342 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
343 Bugzilla 1363.
344
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345PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
346 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
347
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348PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
349 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
350 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
351
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352PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
353 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
354 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
355
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356TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
357
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358JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
359
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360TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
361 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
362
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363TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
364 Alexander Miroch.
365
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366TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
367 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
368 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
369 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
370 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 371
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372TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
373 the src/util/ subdirectory.
374
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375TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
376 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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377 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
378
379TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
380 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
381 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
382 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
383
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384TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
385
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386TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
387 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
388 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 389
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390TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
391
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392TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
393 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
394 interaction.
395
396TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
397 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
398
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399TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
400 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
401
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406PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
407 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 408 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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b1770b6e 411Exim version 4.80
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413
414PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
415 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
416 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
417
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418NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
419
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420NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
421 improved.
422
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423NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
424
c1e794ba 425PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 426
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427PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
428
429PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
430 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
431
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432PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
433 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
434
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435PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
436 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
437
f1e05cc7 438PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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439 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
440 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 441
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442PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
443
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444PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
445 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
446
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447PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
448
c45dd180 449PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 450
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451PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
452 non-compliant senders.
453 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
454
eae0036b 455NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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456 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
457 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
458
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459PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
460 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
461 in spool file corruption.
462
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463PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
464 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
465 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
466 "Got SSL error 2".
467
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468TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
469 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
470 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
471
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472JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
473 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
474
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475JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
476
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477PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
478 diagnostics.
479 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
480
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481PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
482 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
483 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
484
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485PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
486 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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487 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
488 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 489
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490PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
491 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
492
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493PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
494 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
495 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
496 resolver implementation change.
497
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498PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
499 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
500
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501PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
502
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503PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
504
6a6084f8
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505PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
506 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
507
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508PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
509 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
510
9e45c72b 511JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
512 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
513
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514PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
515 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
516 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
517 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 518 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 519
53947857 520PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 521
eae0036b 522PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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523 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
524 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 525
9e45c72b 526JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 527
7390e768
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528PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
529 read-only, out of scope).
530 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
531
08488c86
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532PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
533 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
534 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
535 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
536
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537PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
538
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539PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
540 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
541 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
542 real issues in debug logging.
543
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544PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
545 assignment on my part. Fixed.
546
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547PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
548 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
549 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
550
551PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
552 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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553 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
554 problems.
3375e053 555
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556PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
557 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
558
57eb9e91 559PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
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560 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
561 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
562 needs to override this, it can.
563
16880d1a
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564PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
565 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
566 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
567
a799883d
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568PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
569 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
570 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
571 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
572
3ecab157 573PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 574
0599f9cf 575
867fcbf5
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576Exim version 4.77
577-----------------
578
579PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
580 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
581
f1a29782
TF
582TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
583
ab42bd23
TK
584TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
585 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 586
0ca0cf52
TF
587TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
588 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
589
921b12ca
TF
590TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
591 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
592 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
593
594 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
595 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
596 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
597 not safe for signals.
598
599 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
600 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
601 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
602 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
603 exiwhat.
604
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605TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
606
607 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
608 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
609 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
610 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
611 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
612
613 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
614 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
615 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
616 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
617 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
618 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
619
620 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
621 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
622 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
623 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
624
625 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
626 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
627 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
628 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
629
630 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
631 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
632 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
633 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
634 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
635 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
636 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
637 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
638 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
639
640 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
641 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
642 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
643 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
644
645 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
646 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
647 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
648 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
649 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
650 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
651 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
652 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
653 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
654 details in the main documentation.
655
3634fc25
TF
656TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
657
792e8a19
TF
658TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
659
5901f0ab
TF
660TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
661 repository when doing development or release builds.
662
7f2a2a43
PP
663PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
664 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 665
061b7ebd
PP
666PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
667 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
668 Bugzilla 97.
669
e12f8c32
PP
670PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
671
9e949f00 672PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
673 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
674
675PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
676 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 677
555ae6af 678PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
679 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
680
681PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
682 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 683
6f7fe114
PP
684PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
685 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
686
c566dd90
PP
687PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
688 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
689 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
690 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 691
d6cc7c78 692PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
693 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
694 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
695
0d0e4455
PP
696PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
697
3399bb60 698PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
699
700PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
701 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
702
0ca0cf52 703
10906672
PP
704Exim version 4.76
705-----------------
706
707PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
708
754a0503
PP
709PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
710 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
711
c0c7b2da
PP
712PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
713
e97d1f08
PP
714PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
715
084c1d8c
PP
716PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
717 Bugzilla 1098.
718
4e7ee012
PP
719PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
720 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 721
c8d52a00
PP
722TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
723 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
724
54e7ce4a
PP
725PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
726 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
727
5ee6f336
PP
728PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
729 Bugzilla 1104.
730
c8d52a00 731TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
732 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
733
734TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
735 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
736 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
737 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
738
739PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
740 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 741
10906672 742
aa097c4c
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743Exim version 4.75
744-----------------
745
4c9ef03a 746NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
747 Bugzilla 1073
748
7f3d9eff
TF
749TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
750 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
751 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
752
159f52d2
TF
753TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
754 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
755
0cc9542a
PP
756PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
757 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
758 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
759
f7274286
PP
760PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
761 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
762
7b797365
PP
763PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
764 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
765
caacae52
NM
766NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
767 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
768
09dcaba9
NM
769NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
770 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
771
bc19a55b
PP
772PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
773 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 774
bd4c9759
NM
775NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
776 Fixes bug 943.
777
b72aab72
PP
778PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
779 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
780
2fe76745
PP
781PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
782 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
783
76aa570c
PP
784PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
785 SQL string expansion failure details.
786 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
787
f1e5fef5
PP
788PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
789 Patch from Simon Arlott.
790
4d805ee9
PP
791PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
792 extern declarations in function scope.
793 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
794
cd59ab18
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795PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
796 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
797 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
798 a kernel bug).
799
332f5cf3
PP
800PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
801 Patch from Mark Zealey.
802
29cfeb94
PP
803PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
804 Patch from Mark Zealey.
805
660242ad
PP
806PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
807 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
808
bc4bc4c5
PP
809PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
810 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
811
2e64baa9
NM
812NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
813 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
814 Dennis Davis.
815
bddd7526
PP
816PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
817
6bac1a9a
PP
818PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
819
552193f0
NM
820NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
821 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 822
1b587e48
TF
823TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
824 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
825
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827Exim version 4.74
828-----------------
829
830TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
831 consequences so log it to the panic log.
832
c0ea85ab
TF
833TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
834 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
835
0761d44e
TF
836TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
837
0a349494
PP
838DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
839 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
840 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
841
842PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
843 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
844 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
845
fea24b2e
PP
846PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
847 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
848 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
849 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
850
6545de78
PP
851PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
852 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
853 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
854 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
855
1670ef10
PP
856PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
857 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
858 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
859 arbitrary files.
860
c0886197
PP
861PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
862 (Wolfgang Breyha)
863
b7487bce
PP
864PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
865 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
866 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
867 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
868 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
869
8c07b69f 870
97fd1e48 871Exim version 4.73
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873
874PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
875 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
876 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
877
6901c596
PP
878PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
879 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
880
a8c8d6b5
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881JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
882
77bb000f
PP
883PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
884
a29e5231
PP
885PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
886
ec5a0394 887PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 888
55c75993
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889PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
890
453a6645 891PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
892 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
893 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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894 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
895
8544e77a
PP
896PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
897 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
898 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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899 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
900 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 901
83e029d5
PP
902PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
903
ed7f7860
PP
904PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
905
7d9f747b
PP
906PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
907
4b2241d2
PP
908PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
909
10385c15
PP
910PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
911
dbc4b90d
PP
912PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
913
532be449
PP
914PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
915
6a8de854 916PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
917 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
918 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 919
5dc43717
JJ
920JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
921
922JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
923 "exim" to be used
55c75993 924
3346ab01
PP
925PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
926 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
927
491fab4c
PP
928PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
929 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
930 Notification from John Horne.
931
13eb9497
PP
932PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
933 compatible.
934
935PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
936 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
937 it normally works.
938
7f36d675
DW
939DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
940 access.
941
c1d94452
DW
942DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
943 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
944 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
945
e2f5dc15
DW
946DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
947 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
948 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
949 configuration file.
950
cd25e41d
DW
951DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
952 option (effectively making it always true).
953
261dc43e
DW
954DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
955 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
956
fa32850b
DW
957DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
958 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
959
79d4bc3d
PP
960PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
961 run-time user, instead of root.
962
43236f35 963PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
964 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
965
fb08281f
DW
966DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
967 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
968 arguments.
3346ab01 969
74935b98
DW
970DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
971 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
972 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
973
90b6341f
DW
974DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
975
57730b52
ML
976NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
977
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465e92cf
JJ
979Exim version 4.72
980-----------------
981
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982JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
983 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
984 typos
465e92cf 985
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986JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
987 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
988 (Finput)
edae0343 989
9bd3e22c
NM
990NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
991 Patch from Alain Williams
992
bb576ff7
NM
993NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
994
5a1a5845
NM
995NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
996 Patch from Andreas Metzler
997
981a9fad
NM
998NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
999 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1000
7fc497ee
NM
1001NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1002
1a41defa
JJ
1003JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1004
a466095c 1005NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1006 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1007
94a6bd0b
NM
1008TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1009
1010TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1011
1012MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1013 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1014 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1015
c1b141a8
NM
1016NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1017 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1018
b26eacf1 1019NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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1020 Patch by Simon Arlott
1021
179c5980 1022PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1023 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1024
9bd3e22c 1025
7c6d71af
NM
1026Exim version 4.71
1027-----------------
1028
7d9f747b 1029TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1030
f013fb92
NM
1031NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1032
0eb8eedd
NM
1033NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1034
663ee6d9
NM
1035NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1036
177ebd9b
NM
1037NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1038
7c6d71af 1039
210f147e
NM
1040Exim version 4.70
1041-----------------
1042
cdd3bb85 1043TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1044 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1045
1046TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1047 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1048 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1049
1050TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1051 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1052 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1053
1054TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1055 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1056
210f147e
NM
1057NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1058 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1059 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1060 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1061
deafd5b3
NM
1062NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1063 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1064 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1065
089793a4
TF
1066TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1067
5f16ca82
TF
1068TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1069
dae9d94e 1070NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1071 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1072
7d9f747b 1073NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1074
06864c44
TF
1075TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1076 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1077 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1078 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1079
65a7d8c3 1080NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1081 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1082
23510047 1083TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1084
7d9f747b 1085NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1086
7d8eec3a 1087NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1088 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1089
89dec7b6
TF
1090TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1091 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1092
a99de90c
TF
1093TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1094 that they are available at delivery time.
1095
e2803e40
TF
1096TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1097
7199e1ee
TF
1098TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1099 incoming_port log selectors.
1100
e276e04b
TF
1101TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1102 setting expands to an empty string.
1103
ce552449 1104NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1105 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1106
e765a0f1 1107NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1108 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1109
4f054c63 1110NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1111 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1112
7d9f747b
PP
1113NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1114 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1115
7d9f747b
PP
1116NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1117 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1118
b52bc06e 1119NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1120 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1121
447de4b0
NM
1122NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1123
4c69d561 1124NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1125 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1126
d5c39246 1127NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1128 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1129
0b23848a
TK
1130TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1131
8f3414a1 1132NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1133 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1134
fb6f955d
NM
1135NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1136
1137NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1138
7d9f747b
PP
1139NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1140 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1141
7d9f747b
PP
1142NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1143 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1144
7d9f747b
PP
1145NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1146 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1147
7d9f747b
PP
1148NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1149 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1150
7d9f747b
PP
1151NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1152 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1153
7d9f747b
PP
1154NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1155 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1156
7d9f747b
PP
1157NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1158 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1159
7d9f747b 1160NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1161 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1162
7d9f747b 1163NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1164
7d9f747b
PP
1165NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1166 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1167
7d9f747b 1168NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1169
7d9f747b 1170NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1171
7d9f747b 1172NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1173
7d9f747b 1174NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1175
17792b53 1176NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1177 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1178
7d9f747b
PP
1179NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1180 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1181
91576cec 1182NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1183 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1184
7d9f747b
PP
1185NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1186 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1187
7d9f747b 1188NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1189
7d9f747b 1190NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1191
7d9f747b 1192NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1193
7d9f747b 1194NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1195
deafd5b3 1196
47db1125
NM
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1198-----------------
1199
4b3504d0
TK
1200TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1201 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1202 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1203
1204 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1205 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1206 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1207 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1208 build errors in sieve.c.
1209
81ea09ca
NM
1210NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1211 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1212 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1213
f13cddcb
SC
1214SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1215
7d9f747b 1216NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1217
7d9f747b 1218NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1219
7d9f747b 1220NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1221
1222
eb4c0de6
PH
1223Exim version 4.68
1224-----------------
1225
1226PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1227
6a3bceb1
PH
1228PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1229 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1230 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1231 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1232 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1233 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1234 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1235 for iplsearch lookups.
1236
1237 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1238 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1239 previously such lookups could never work.
1240
1241 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1242 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1243 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1244
2e30fa9d
TK
1245TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1246 version.
1247
0806a9c5
MH
1248MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1249 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1250 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1251 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1252 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1253 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1254
ae276964
TK
1255TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1256 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1257
0f2cbd1b
MH
1258MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1259 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1260 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1261 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1262 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1263 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1264
2b85bce7
PH
1265PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1266 local_scan API.
1267
93655c46
PH
1268PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1269
6c512171
PH
1270PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1271 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1272 encrypted.
1273
1274PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1275 by clients under certain conditions.
1276
aa6dc513
PH
1277PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1278 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1279
a96603a0
PH
1280PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1281
8f240103
PH
1282PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1283 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1284
1285PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1286
d677b2f2
PH
1287PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1288
d52120f2
PH
1289PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1290
64f2600a
PH
1291PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1292 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1293
8669f003
PH
1294PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1295
a4dc33a8
PH
1296PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1297 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1298
d6a60c0f
PH
1299PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1300
8f128379
PH
1301PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1302
8932dffe
PH
1303PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1304 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1305 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1306 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1307
ddea74fa 1308PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1309 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1310 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1311
ddea74fa 1312PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1313 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1314
ddea74fa
PH
1315PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1316
ce9f225c
PH
1317PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1318
19897d52
PH
1319PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1320
bc64a74d
PH
1321PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1322 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1323 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1324
eb4c0de6 1325
b4ed4da0
PH
1326Exim version 4.67
1327-----------------
1328
22ad45c9
MH
1329MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1330 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1331 Jan Srzednicki.
1332
b4ed4da0
PH
1333PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1334 issue a MAIL command.
1335
431b7361
PH
1336PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1337
1338 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1339
1340 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1341 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1342 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1343 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1344 item. This has been fixed.
1345
1346PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1347 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1348
83da1223
PH
1349PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1350 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1351
54fc8428
PH
1352PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1353 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1354 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1355
34c5e8dd
SC
1356SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1357
bbe15da8
PH
1358PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1359 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1360 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1361 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1362 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1363
0e8a9471
MH
1364MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1365 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1366 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1367
f0872424
PH
1368PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1369 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1370 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1371 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1372
b01dd148
PH
1373PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1374
6bf342e1
PH
1375PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1376
273f34d0
PH
1377PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1378 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1379 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1380 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1381 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1382
cf8b11a5
PH
1383PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1384
41c7c167
PH
1385PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1386 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1387 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1388 values).
1389
9c57cbc0
PH
1390PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1391
f3f065bb
PH
1392PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1393
047bdd8c
PH
1394PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1395
0ce9abe6
PH
1396PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1397
0e22dfd1
PH
1398PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1399
4c590bd1
PH
1400PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1401 no_callout_flush is set.
1402
09945f1e
PH
1403PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1404 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1405 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1406 fixed.
1407
c51b8e75
PH
1408PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1409
e28326d8
PH
1410PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1411 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1412 other ACL rejections are.
1413
75b1493f
PH
1414PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1415 with slight modification.
1416
7c5214ec
PH
1417PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1418 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1419
4311097e
PH
1420PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1421 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1422 connection.
1423
29f89cad
PH
1424PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1425 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1426
5e687460
SC
1427SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1428
c3611384
PH
1429PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1430 expansion side effects.
1431
5a11a7b4
PH
1432PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1433 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1434 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1435 be the same.
1436
0e20aff9
MH
1437MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1438 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1439 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1440
ca86f471
PH
1441PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1442 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1443 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1444 were accidentally chopped off.
1445
a14e5636
PH
1446PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1447 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1448 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1449 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1450 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1451 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1452 pipelining has not been advertised.
1453
ec95d1a6
PH
1454PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1455
42855d71
PH
1456PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1457 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1458 This has been fixed.
1459
57c2c631
PH
1460PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1461 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1462 reported on Solaris.
1463
58c01c94
PH
1464PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1465 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1466 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1467 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1468 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1469 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1470 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1471
dee5a20a
PH
1472PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1473 cpus.
1474
d2ee6114
PH
1475PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1476
b2d5182b
PH
1477PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1478
79749a79
PH
1479PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1480 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1481 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1482 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1483 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1484 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1485
c456d9bb
PH
1486PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1487 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1488 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1489 host_all_ignored option.
1490
cd9868ec
PH
1491PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1492 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1493 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1494 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1495 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1496 is what is supposed to happen).
1497
ebeaf996
PH
1498PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1499 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1500 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1501 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1502 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1503 uses the Exim user.
1504
2679d413
PH
1505PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1506 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1507 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1508 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1509 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1510 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1511 users.
1512
84024b72
PH
1513PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1514
8005d38e
SC
1515SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1516 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1517 (Jez Hancock).
1518 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1519 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1520
3298c6c6
SC
1521SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1522
a43a27c5
PH
1523PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1524
58eb016e 1525PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1526 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1527 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1528 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1529 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1530 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1531 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1532 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1533 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1534 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1535 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1536
b43a74ea
PH
1537PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1538 advertised in response to EHLO.
1539
b4ed4da0 1540
5dd1517f
PH
1541Exim version 4.66
1542-----------------
1543
1544PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1545 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1546
1547 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1548 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1549
1550 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1551 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1552 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1553
1554 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1555 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1556 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1557 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1558 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1559
1560
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TK
1561Exim version 4.65
1562-----------------
1563
1564TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1565 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1566 versions. (#438)
1567
d6066548
MH
1568MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1569 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1570 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1571
4362ff0d
PH
1572PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1573 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1574 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1575 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1576 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1577 rather than extend the field.
1578
93cfa765 1579
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1580Exim version 4.64
1581-----------------
aa41d2de 1582
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TK
1583TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1584 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1585 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1586 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1587 these files.
1588
1589TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1590 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1591 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1592
1593TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1594 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1595 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1596
1597TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1598 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1599 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1600 in the field name.
1601
2b1c6e3a
PH
1602PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1603 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1604 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1605 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1606 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1607 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1608 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1609 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1610 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1611 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1612 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1613
1f872c80
PH
1614PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1615 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1616
1617PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1618 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1619 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1620 ignores EPIPE as well.
1621
d203e649
PH
1622PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1623 (quoted-printable decoding).
1624
cc2ed8f7 1625PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1626 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1627
ddfcd446
PH
1628PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1629
d45b1de8
PH
1630PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1631
1632PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1633
38a0a95f 1634PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1635 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1636
a2405d83
JJ
1637JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1638 in 4.64-PH/09.
1639
1640JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1641 miscellaneous code fixes
1642
6ea85e9a
PH
1643PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1644 rejections.
1645
26da7e20
PH
1646PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1647 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1648 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1649 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1650 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1651 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1652 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1653 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1654
14aa5a05 1655PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1656 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1657 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1658 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1659 function.
1660 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1661 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1662 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1663 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1664 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1665 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1666 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1667 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1668 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1669
ff75a1f7
PH
1670PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1671 decoding.
1672
e6f6568e
PH
1673PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1674 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1675 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1676 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1677 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1678 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1679 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1680 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1681
d6f6e0dc
PH
1682PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1683 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1684 list.
1685
322050c2
PH
1686PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1687 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1688 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1689 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1690 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1691 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1692 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1693 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1694 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1695 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1696 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1697 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1698 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1699
08955dd3
PH
1700PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1701 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1702 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1703 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1704 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1705 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1706 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1707
1eccaa59
PH
1708PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1709 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1710 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1711 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1712 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1713 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1714 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1715 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1716 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1717 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1718
602e59e5
PH
1719PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1720 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1721 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1722 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1723 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1724
411ef850
PH
1725PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1726 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1727 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1728 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1729 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1730 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1731 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1732
7befa435
PH
1733PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1734 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1735 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1736 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1737 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1738 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1739 been verified.
1740
48da4259 1741PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1742 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1743 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1744 and authorization.)
1745
48da4259
PH
1746PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1747 if any retry times were supplied.
1748
d1d5595c
PH
1749PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1750 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1751 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1752
0ef732d9
PH
1753PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1754
328895cc
PH
1755PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1756
fd700877
PH
1757PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1758 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1759 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1760 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1761 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1762 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1763
8dce1a6f
PH
1764PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1765 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1766
17af4a17
PH
1767PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1768 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1769 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1770
1771PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1772 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1773 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1774 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1775 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1776 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1777 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1778 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1779 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1780
1781 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1782 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1783 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1784 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1785 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1786 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1787 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1788 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1789 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1790
1791 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1792 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1793 hammering the server.
1794
c1114884
PH
1795PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1796 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1797
7a0743eb
PH
1798PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1799
0d85fa3f
PH
1800PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1801 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1802 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1803
1bf43b78
PH
1804PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1805 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1806 one case where this was not true.
1807
520de300
PH
1808PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1809 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1810 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1811 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1812 fails.
1813
48c7f9e2
PH
1814PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1815 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1816 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1817 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1818 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1819 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1820 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1821 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1822 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1823 smtp transport.
1824
99ea1c86
PH
1825PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1826 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1827 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1828 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1829
a2042e78
PH
1830PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1831 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1832
4fbcfc2e
PH
1833PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1834 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1835 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1836
aa41d2de
PH
1837PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1838
af561417
PH
1839PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1840
3cc66b45
PH
1841PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1842
194cc0e4
PH
1843PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1844 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1845 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1846 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1847
a401ddaa
PH
1848PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1849 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1850
4e88a19f
PH
1851PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1852 be meaningful with "accept".
1853
d7d7b289
SC
1854SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1855 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1856
1857SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1858 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1859 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1860
1861SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1862 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1863 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1864 there is data to show.
1865 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1866
1867SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1868 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1869 as well as the number of messages.
1870
1871SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1872 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1873 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1874
1875SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1876 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1877 have a flag are now skipped.
1878
1879SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1880 Added the -emptyok flag.
1881
1882SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1883 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1884
0ea2a468
JJ
1885JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1886 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1887 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1888
1889JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1890 match 4.64-PH/13
1891
1892JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1893 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1894
1895JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1896
1897JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1898 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1899
8a10f5a4
PH
1900PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1901
30e18802
PH
1902PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1903 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1904 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1905 contravention of the specifications.
1906
55728a4f
PH
1907PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1908 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1909 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1910
d7837193
PH
1911PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1912 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1913 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1914
87054a31
PH
1915PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1916
ea2c01d2
MH
1917MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1918 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1919 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1920 some point in the past.
1921
e4fa6968
PH
1922PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1923 transport during callout processing was broken.
1924
56f5d9bd
PH
1925PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1926 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1927
922e1c28
PH
1928PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1929 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1930
21eb6e72
PH
1931PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1932 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1933
a0540757
PH
1934PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1935
944e9e9c 1936
478be7b0
SC
1937Exim version 4.63
1938-----------------
1939
1940SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1941 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1942
1943SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1944 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1945 there is data to show.
1946 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1947
1948SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1949 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1950
2b965a65
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1951TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1952 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1953
45b91596
PH
1954TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1955 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1956
c59f5781
TF
1957TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1958 submissions from trusted users.
1959
90fc3069
TF
1960TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1961 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1962
6083aca0
TF
1963TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1964 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1965 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1966 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1967 there is now a framework to start from.
1968
765b530f
PH
1969PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1970 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1971 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1972
4e167a8c
PH
1973PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1974
4608d683
PH
1975PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1976
b8dc3e4a
PH
1977PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1978
5418e93b
PH
1979PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1980 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1981 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1982
b4a9bda2
PH
1983PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1984 libradius.
1985
45b91596
PH
1986PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1987 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1988 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1989
5547e2c5
PH
1990PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1991 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1992 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1993 its arguments.
1994
dbcef0ea
PH
1995PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1996 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1997 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1998 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1999 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2000
25257489
PH
2001PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2002 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2003
c816d124
PH
2004PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2005
a9ccd69a
PH
2006PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2007 operations in malware.c.
2008
75fa1910
PH
2009PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2010 signatures.
2011
a7d7aa58
PH
2012PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2013 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2014 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2015 all.
2016
42119b09
PH
2017PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2018 statements to "add_header".
2019
41609df5
PH
2020PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2021 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2022
a5bd321b
PH
2023PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2024 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2025 latter.
2026
e85a7ad5 2027PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2028 so that it is now:
2029
e85a7ad5
PH
2030 ${if or { \
2031 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2032 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2033 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2034 }{no}{yes}}
2035
e85a7ad5
PH
2036 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2037 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2038
d8fe1c03
PH
2039PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2040 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2041
16282d2b
PH
2042PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2043 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2044 any possible encoding problems.
2045
35d40a98
PH
2046PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2047 but not after initializing Perl.
2048
034d99ab
PH
2049PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2050 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2051 apparently, which is not desirable.
2052
6ec97b1b
PH
2053PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2054 queries.
2055
e22ca4ac
JJ
2056JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2057 --not options
2058
2059JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2060
33d73e3b
PH
2061PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2062 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2063 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2064 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2065
9ecb03f3
PH
2066PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2067 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2068 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2069
084efe8d
PH
2070PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2071 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2072 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2073 0.12.
2074
366fc9f0
PH
2075PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2076 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2077 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2078 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2079 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2080
c59f5781 2081
c887c79e
TF
2082Exim version 4.62
2083-----------------
2084
2085TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2086 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2087
1cce3af8
PH
2088PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2089 patch).
2090
afb3eaaf
PH
2091PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2092 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2093 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2094 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2095 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2096 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2097 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2098 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2099 451 error is used.
2100
e173618b
PH
2101PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2102
dd16e114
PH
2103PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2104 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2105 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2106
f7fd3850
PH
2107PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2108 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2109 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2110 odd errors.
2111
d87df92c
PH
2112PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2113 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2114
7e9f683d
PH
2115PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2116 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2117 option (which defaults to 0600).
2118
bfad5236
PH
2119PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2120
01c490df
PH
2121PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2122 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2123 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2124 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2125 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2126 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2127 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2128
d6629cdc
PH
2129PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2130
1cce3af8 2131
214e2000
PH
2132Exim version 4.61
2133-----------------
2134
2135PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2136 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2137 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2138 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2139 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2140 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2141 addresses as local.
2142
f9daeae0
PH
2143PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2144 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2145
7e66e54d
PH
2146PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2147
c8ea1597
PH
2148PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2149 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2150 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2151 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2152 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2153 grumble.
2154
911f6fde
PH
2155PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2156 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2157
47ca6d6c
PH
2158PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2159 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2160 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2161 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2162 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2163
ed0e9820
PH
2164PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2165 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2166 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2167 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2168
eff37e47
PH
2169PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2170 be the same on different OS.
2171
1921d2ea
PH
2172PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2173 testing.
2174
b3f69ca8
JJ
2175JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2176 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2177
2178JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2179 in 4.61-PH/06
2180
424a1c63
PH
2181PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2182 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2183 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2184 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2185 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2186 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2187 bounce message.
2188
7a100415
PH
2189PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2190 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2191 when Exim was called.
2192
19b9dc85
PH
2193PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2194 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2195
309bd837
PH
2196PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2197 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2198 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2199 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2200
59e82a2a
PH
2201PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2202 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2203 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2204 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2205 changes:
2206
2207 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2208 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2209 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2210
2211 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2212 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2213 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2214
9edc04ce
PH
2215PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2216 feature).
2217
1349e1e5
PH
2218PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2219 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2220 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2221 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2222 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2223 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2224 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2225 values from the SRV records were lost.
2226
ea49d0e1
PH
2227PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2228 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2229 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2230
064a94c9
PH
2231PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2232 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2233 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2234
727071f8
PH
2235PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2236 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2237 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2238 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2239 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2240 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2241 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2242 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2243 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2244 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2245
f78eb7c6
PH
2246PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2247 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2248 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2249
21c28500
PH
2250PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2251 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2252
2253PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2254 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2255 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2256 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2257 is given.
2258
1688f43b
PH
2259PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2260 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2261 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2262
2263PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2264 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2265 PH/23 above applies.
2266
9675b384
PH
2267PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2268 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2269 (for which there is an explicit test).
2270
6a3f1455
PH
2271PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2272
dac79d3e
PH
2273PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2274 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2275 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2276 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2277 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2278
5977a0b3
PH
2279PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2280 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2281 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2282 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2283
c91535f3
PH
2284PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2285 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2286 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2287
0d46a8c8
PH
2288PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2289
278c6e6c
PH
2290PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2291
2cbb4081
PH
2292PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2293 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2294 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2295
3eef829e
PH
2296PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2297 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2298 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2299 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2300 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2301
1ab95fa6
PH
2302PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2303 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2304 the message gets confusing).
2305
230205fc
PH
2306PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2307 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2308 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2309 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2310
75e0e026
PH
2311PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2312 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2313 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2314 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2315 same order.
2316
2317PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2318 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2319 the different processes.
2320
145396a6
PH
2321PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2322
3cd34f13
PH
2323PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2324
11121d3d
JJ
2325JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2326 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2327
2328JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2329 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2330
2331JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2332 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2333 messages matching specified criteria.
2334
8def5aaf
PH
2335PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2336
929ba01c
PH
2337PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2338 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2339
2632889e
PH
2340PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2341 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2342 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2343 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2344 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2345 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2346 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2347 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2348 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2349 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2350
944a9c55
PH
2351PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2352 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2353 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2354
4a23603b
PH
2355PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2356
4730f942
PH
2357PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2358 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2359 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2360 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2361 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2362 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2363 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2364 the variable.
2365
30dba1e6
PH
2366PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2367 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2368
382afc6b
PH
2369PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2370
a86229cf
PH
2371PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2372
50c99ba6
PH
2373PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2374
d35e429d
PH
2375PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2376 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2377 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2378 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2379 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2380 size of the count of files.
2381
f90d018c
PH
2382PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2383
75def545
PH
2384PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2385 used in LMTP mode:
2386
2387 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2388 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2389 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2390 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2391
2392 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2393 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2394 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2395
2396PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2397 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2398 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2399 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2400 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2401
c46782ef
PH
2402PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2403 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2404
71fafd95
PH
2405PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2406 will now be deprecated.
2407
2c5db4fd
PH
2408PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2409
9cf6b11a
JJ
2410JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2411 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2412 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2413
2414JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2415 with very large, slow to parse queues
2416
2417JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2418
2419JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2420
898d150f
PH
2421PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2422 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2423 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2424 SMTP output lines.
2425
46218253
PH
2426PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2427 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2428 Sieve code now uses this.
2429
e97957bc
PH
2430PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2431 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2432
81e509d7
PH
2433PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2434 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2435
3d240ff7
PH
2436PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2437
b37c4101
PH
2438PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2439 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2440 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2441 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2442 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2443
79378e0f
PH
2444PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2445 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2446 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2447 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2448
e49c7bb4
PH
2449PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2450
d114ec46
PH
2451PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2452
f3d7df6c
PH
2453PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2454 is preferred over IPv4.
2455
715ab376
PH
2456PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2457 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2458 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2459 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2460 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2461 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2462 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2463
6b31b150
PH
2464PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2465 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2466 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2467
2468PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2469
d515a917
PH
2470PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2471 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2472 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2473 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2474 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2475 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2476 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2477 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2478 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2479 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2480 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2481
9b8fadde
PH
2482PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2483 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2484 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2485
214e2000 2486
5de37277
PH
2487Exim version 4.60
2488-----------------
2489
cc38ddbf
PH
2490PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2491
2492 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2493 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2494
2495 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2496 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2497 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2498
72fdd6ae
PH
2499PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2500
2501 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2502 not a single digit.
2503
2504 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2505 string.
2506
2507 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2508 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2509 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2510 silly things.
2511
2512 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2513 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2514
2515 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2516 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2517
cb741023
PH
2518PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2519 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2520 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2521
f174f16e
PH
2522PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2523 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2524
c25242d7
PH
2525PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2526 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2527
2528 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2529
2530 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2531 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2532 this:
2533
2534 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2535
82c19f95
PH
2536PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2537 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2538 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2539 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2540 identical. For example:
2541
2542 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2543
2544 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2545 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2546 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2547
d7ffbc12
PH
2548PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2549 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2550 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2551 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2552
9f526266
PH
2553PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2554 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2555 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2556 message.
2557
87fcc8b9
PH
2558PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2559
2560 o fixes some comments
2561 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2562 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2563 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2564 and documents the missing references header update
2565
2566 and most important:
2567
2568 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2569 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2570 result)
2571
456682f5
PH
2572PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2573 Electronic Mail") by including:
2574
2575 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2576
2577 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2578 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2579 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2580 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2581 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2582
2583 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2584
2585 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2586
2587 The auto-replied keyword:
2588
2589 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2590 message by an automatic process,
2591
2592 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2593
2594 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2595 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2596
2597 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2598 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2599 other messages.
2600
3e46c1aa
PH
2601PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2602 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2603
49826d12
PH
2604PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2605
eba0c039
PH
2606PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2607 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2608 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2609
a0d6ba8a
PH
2610PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2611 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2612 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2613
f0917727
PH
2614PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2615 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2616 and treats the condition as false.
2617
096fee00
PH
2618PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2619
024bd3c2
PH
2620PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2621 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2622 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2623 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2624 not changing the active code.
2625
2626 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2627 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2628
2629 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2630 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2631
df199fec
PH
2632PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2633 (Bugzilla #53).
2634
d27f1df3
PH
2635PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2636 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2637 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2638 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2639 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2640 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2641 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2642 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2643 the text comparison.
2644
96776534
PH
2645PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2646 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2647 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2648 The same fix has been applied.
2649
5de37277 2650
9a799bc0
PH
2651Exim version 4.54
2652-----------------
2653
2654PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2655 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2656 It now does.
2657
99a4b039
PH
2658PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2659 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2660
2661PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2662
4b233853
PH
2663PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2664 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2665 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2666 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2667 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2668
8857ccfd
PH
2669TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2670 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2671 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2672 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2673 or /domain=).
2674
433a2980
PH
2675PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2676 testing suite.
2677
3e46c1aa 2678
9a799bc0 2679
e3a311ba
TK
2680Exim version 4.53
2681-----------------
2682
2683TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2684 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2685
13b685f9
PH
2686PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2687
395ff96d
PH
2688PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2689
5b68f6e4
PH
2690PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2691 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2692 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2693
1ab52c69
PH
2694PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2695 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2696 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2697
b07e6aa3
PH
2698PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2699 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2700 operating systems.
2701
254e032f
PH
2702PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2703 ${stat: expansion item.
2704
3af76a81
PH
2705PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2706 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2707
2548ba04
PH
2708PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2709 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2710 file for comments.
2711
b6c6011d
PH
2712PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2713
cf39cf57
PH
2714PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2715 setting.
2716
f1513293
PH
2717PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2718 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2719
727549a4
PH
2720TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2721
af46795e
PH
2722PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2723 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2724 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2725 the end of the subprocess.
2726
d7b47fd0
PH
2727PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2728 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2729 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2730 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2731 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2732
ee744174
JJ
2733JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2734
b582ab87
PH
2735TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2736
41a13e0a
PH
2737PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2738 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2739
f625cc5a
PH
2740PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2741
2742PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2743
21f7af35
PH
2744PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2745 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2746 HP-UX compiler.
2747
31480e42
PH
2748PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2749
2d280592
PH
2750PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2751 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2752 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2753
7cd1141b
PH
2754PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2755 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2756
2757PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2758 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2759
750af86e
PH
2760PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2761 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2762
2763 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2764 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2765
2766 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2767 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2768 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2769 contributed by a Radius user.
2770
2771PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2772 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2773
4304270b
TK
2774TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2775 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2776
750af86e
PH
2777PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2778 available.
2779
64ffc24f
PH
2780PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2781 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2782 received.
2783
5dd9625b
PH
2784PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2785 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2786 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2787 header lines when this was not necessary.
2788
5591031b
PH
2789PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2790
ba18e66a
PH
2791PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2792 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2793 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2794 exists".
2795
9cec981f
PH
2796PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2797 -bV or -d is used.
2798
aa2b5c79
PH
2799PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2800 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2801 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2802 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2803
48a53b7f
PH
2804PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2805
1c59d63b
PH
2806PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2807
671012da
TK
2808TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2809
1509d3a8
PH
2810PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2811
2812PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2813 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2814 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2815 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2816 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2817 settings.
2818
2819PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2820
2fe1a124
PH
2821PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2822 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2823 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2824 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2825 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2826 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2827 which is clearly wrong.
2828
8800895a
PH
2829PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2830
ccfdb010
PH
2831PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2832 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2833 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2834 subsequently added.
2835
1130bfb0
PH
2836PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2837 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2838
ebcb507f
PH
2839PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2840
c35e155c
PH
2841PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2842 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2843
95d1f782
PH
2844PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2845 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2846
fd6de02e
PH
2847PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2848 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2849
58de37c5
PH
2850PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2851 recipients, not senders.
2852
261cf466
TF
2853TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2854 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2855
3ee512ff
PH
2856PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2857
e08c430f
PH
2858PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2859
bef5a11f
PH
2860PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2861 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2862 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2863 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2864
7546de58
TF
2865TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2866
e5d5a95f
TF
2867TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2868 clock is set back in time.
2869
2e88a017
TF
2870TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2871 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2872
a5f65aa4
TF
2873TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2874 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2875
e7726cbf
PH
2876PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2877 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2878 (see PH/47 above).
2879
a7fdad5b
TF
2880TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2881 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2882 header rewrites.
2883
6af56900
PH
2884PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2885 type ("H").
2886
0925ede6
PH
2887PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2888
66afa403
TF
2889TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2890 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2891 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2892
0154e85a
TF
2893TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2894 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2895 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2896 helo verification defer as a failure.
2897
16f12c76
PH
2898PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2899 actual error message.
2900
bbe902f0 2901
e5a9dba6
PH
2902Exim version 4.52
2903-----------------
2904
2905TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2906
22c3b60b
PH
2907PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2908 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2909 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2910 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2911
06a9b4b5
PH
2912TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2913
c1ac6996
PH
2914PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2915 can still be requested.
2916
9c7a242c
PH
2917PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2918 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2919 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2920 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2921
87ba3f5f
PH
2922TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2923 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2924 circumstances, but probably never did.
2925
2926PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2927 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2928 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2929 in the header line.
2930
29aba418
TF
2931TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2932
fe0dab11
TF
2933TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2934 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2935
11d337a4
TK
2936TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2937
2938TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2939
415c8f3b
PH
2940PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2941 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2942 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2943 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2944 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2945 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2946
958541e9
PH
2947PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2948 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2949 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2950 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2951 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2952 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2953
c206415f
TK
2954TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2955 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2956
2a4be8f9
PH
2957PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2958 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2959
1cba11c5
SC
2960SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2961 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2962
2963SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2964
2965SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2966
2967SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2968
2969SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2970
2971SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2972
2973SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2974
1005d00e
TK
2975TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2976
2977TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2978 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2979 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2980
2981TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2982 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2983 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2984 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2985
9b4768fa
PH
2986PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2987 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2988 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2989
2990PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2991 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2992 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2993 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2994
0d7eb84a
PH
2995PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2996 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2997 to be made).
2998
2999PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3000 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3001 should work with maildirs and everything.
3002
40727bee
TK
3003TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3004 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3005
554d2369
TF
3006TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3007 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3008
1f922db1
PH
3009PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3010 function for BDB 4.3.
3011
ef213c3b
PH
3012PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3013
8ac170f3
PH
3014PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3015 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3016 involved.
3017
b1c749bb
PH
3018PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3019 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3020 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3021 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3022 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3023 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3024
4aac9b49
PH
3025PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3026 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3027 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3028 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3029 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3030 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3031 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3032 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3033
294520c8
TK
3034TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3035 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3036 details.
3037
5bd022fe
PH
3038PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3039 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3040
90e9ce59
PH
3041PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3042 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3043 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3044 test. It is now used for both.
3045
5ea81592
PH
3046PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3047 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3048 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3049 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3050 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3051 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3052
c6c2dc1d
PH
3053PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3054 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3055 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3056 string_vformat().
3057
fffffe4c
PH
3058PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3059 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3060 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3061
9a26b6b2
PH
3062PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3063 experimental DomainKeys support:
3064
3065 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3066 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3067 the control was given.
3068
3069 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3070
4aee0225
PH
3071PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3072
32d668a5
PH
3073PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3074
8187c3f3
PH
3075PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3076 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3077 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3078 db.h files).
3079
ff790e47 3080PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3081 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3082 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3083 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3084 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3085 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3086 course.
ff790e47 3087
5417f6d1
PH
3088PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3089 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3090 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3091 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3092 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3093 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3094
59cf8544
PH
3095PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3096 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3097 do -d+all out of habit.
3098
e7ad8a65
PH
3099PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3100 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3101 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3102
ade42478
PH
3103PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3104 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3105 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3106 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3107 record types that Exim uses.
3108
182ad5cf
PH
3109PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3110 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3111 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3112 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3113 non-existent file that was broken.
3114
b0d9fc80
TK
3115TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3116 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3117
3118TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3119 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3120 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3121
3122TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3123
47c7a64a
PH
3124PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3125 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3126 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3127 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3128 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3129 same time.
3130
a388bce4
SC
3131SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3132 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3133 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3134 at a slight CPU cost.
3135
3136SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3137 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3138
3139SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3140 by Marc Sherman.
3141
0793e4ed
SC
3142SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3143
c58b88df
PH
3144PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3145 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3146
e7ad8a65 3147
7982096b
PH
3148Exim version 4.51
3149-----------------
3150
1a46a8c5
PH
3151TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3152 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3153
2f079f46 3154TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3155
3156TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3157
3158PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3159 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3160
3161PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3162 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3163 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3164 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3165 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3166 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3167 file.
3168
3169PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3170 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3171 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3172 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3173 these two options.
3174
3175PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3176 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3177 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3178 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3179 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3180 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3181 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3182 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3183
3184PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3185 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3186
3187PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3188 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3189 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3190 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3191 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3192 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3193
3194PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3195 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3196 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3197 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3198
3199PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3200 Finch).
3201
3202PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3203 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3204
49c2d5ea
PH
3205PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3206 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3207 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3208 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3209 message.
49c2d5ea 3210
bf759a8b
PH
3211PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3212
83364d30
PH
3213PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3214 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3215
7999bbd7
PH
3216PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3217 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3218 to what was transported.)
3219
7dbf77c9
PH
3220TF/01 Added $received_time.
3221
74e0617f
PH
3222PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3223 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3224 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3225 spamd_address settings.
3226
2f079f46
PH
3227PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3228 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3229 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3230 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3231 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3232
8c841523
PH
3233PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3234
7766a4f0
PH
3235PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3236 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3237 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3238 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3239 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3240
8b417f2c
PH
3241PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3242 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3243
901f42cb
PH
3244PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3245 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3246 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3247 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3248 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3249 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3250 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3251 for failure.
3252
f9b9210e
PH
3253PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3254 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3255 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3256 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3257 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3258 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3259 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3260 "input=".
3261
54cdb463
PH
3262PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3263
cf00dad6
PH
3264PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3265 driver and ACL definitions.
3266
acb1b346
PH
3267PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3268 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3269
c5ddb310
PH
3270PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3271 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3272 understands it better than I do:
3273
3274 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3275 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3276
3277 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3278 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3279 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3280 => three warnings about OTP not working
3281 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3282
3283 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3284 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3285 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3286 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3287 for each call.)
3288 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3289 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3290
3291 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3292 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3293 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3294
31619da6
PH
3295PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3296 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3297 specified.
3298
bebaf0fc
PH
3299PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3300 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3301 "Linux".
3302
475fe28a
PH
3303PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3304 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3305 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3306
3307 warn !verify = sender
3308 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3309
3310 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3311 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3312
7e8bec7a
PH
3313PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3314
3315 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3316 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3317
3318 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3319 nomenclature these days.)
3320
e4a89c47
PH
3321PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3322 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3323
5ca2a9a1
PH
3324PH/30 In these circumstances:
3325 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3326 . First host does not offer TLS;
3327 . First host accepts first address;
3328 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3329 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3330 . Second host accepts second address.
3331 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3332 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3333 address.
7e8bec7a 3334
c688b954
PH
3335PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3336 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3337 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3338 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3339 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3340
fed77020
PH
3341PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3342 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3343
7fe1560f
PH
3344PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3345 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3346
ebb6e6d5
PH
3347PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3348 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3349 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3350
9c4e8f60
PH
3351PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3352 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3353 overlooked.
3354
3355PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3356
d7174846
PH
3357PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3358 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3359 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3360 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3361 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3362 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3363 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3364
3365 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3366 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3367 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3368 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3369 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3370
3371 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3372 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3373 routed further.
3374
cfe75fc3
PH
3375PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3376 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3377 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3378 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3379 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3380 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3381
be22d70e
PH
3382PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3383
0612b098
PH
3384PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3385 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3386 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3387 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3388 printable escape sequences.
3389
2e0c1448
PH
3390PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3391 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3392 body only.
3393
447d236c
PH
3394PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3395 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3396 are as follows:
3397
3398 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3399 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3400 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3401 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3402 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3403
3404 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3405 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3406 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3407
d20976dc
PH
3408PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3409
f656d135
PH
3410PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3411 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3412 play with."
3413
2e2a30b4
PH
3414PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3415 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3416 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3417 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3418 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3419 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3420 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3421 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3422 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3423 the log output.
3424
9176e9f0
PH
3425PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3426 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3427 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3428 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3429 "make".
3430
7982096b 3431
bbe902f0
PH
3432A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3433----------------------------------------
3434
3435Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3436changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3437needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3438in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3439that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3440release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3441from 4.43.
3442
3443I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
34444.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3445those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3446historical information.
3447
3448
f7b63901 3449Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3450-----------------
3451
5fe762f6
PH
3452 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3453
139059f6 3454 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3455 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3456
7086e875
PH
3457 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3458 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3459 place.
3460
35af9f61
PH
3461 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3462 filter fails to execute.
3463
b668c215
PH
3464 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3465 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3466 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3467 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3468 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3469
a494b1e1
PH
3470 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3471
3472 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3473 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3474 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3475 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3476
c5fcb476
PH
3477 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3478 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3479 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3480 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3481 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3482
69358f02
PH
3483 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3484
5be20824
PH
348510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3486
eb2c0248
PH
348711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3488 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3489 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3490 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3491
2a3eea10
PH
349212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3493 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3494 sender verification.
3495
349613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3497 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3498
23c7ff99
PH
349914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3500
4deaf07d
PH
350115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3502 connection timeout.
3503
926e1192
PH
350416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3505 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3506
650edc6f
PH
350717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3508 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3509
2c7db3f5
PH
351018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3511 information about exactly what failed.
3512
3d235903
PH
351319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3514
7c7ad977
PH
351520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3516 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3517 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3518
981756db
PH
351921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3520 It is now set to "smtps".
3521
d4eb88df
PH
352222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3523 ignore_target_hosts.
3524
352523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3526 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3527 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3528 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3529 "[x.x.x.x]".
3530
7d468ab8
PH
353124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3532 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3533 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3534
353525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3536 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3537 wake it up if nothing else does.
3538
62c0818f
PH
353926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3540 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3541 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3542 end up negative.
3543
26034054
PH
354427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3545 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3546
af66f652
PH
354728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3548
90af77f4
PH
354929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3550 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3551 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3552 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3553 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3554 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3555 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3556 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3557
d8ef3577
PH
355830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3559 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3560 than one IP address.
3561
5cb8cbc6
PH
356231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3563 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3564 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3565 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3566
14702f5b
PH
356732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3568 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3569 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3570 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3571 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3572 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3573
063b1e99
PH
357433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3575 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3576 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3577 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3578
652e1b65
PH
357934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3580 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3581 respected.
3582
6f0c9a4f
PH
358335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3584 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3585 $sender_host_address.
3586
33397d19
PH
358736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3588 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3589 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3590 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3591 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3592 very small.
3593
7bb56e1f
PH
359437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3595
3596 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3597 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3598
ea3bc19b
PH
3599 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3600 just the host names, not the priorities.
3601
3602 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3603 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3604 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3605
ea3bc19b 3606 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3607 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3608
0bcb2a0e
PH
360938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3610 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3611 domain.
3612
2ac0e484
PH
361339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3614
4e1fde53
PH
361540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3616 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3617
de365ded
PH
361841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3619 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3620 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3621
f05da2e8
PH
362242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3623
d6453af2
PH
362443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3625
f7b63901
PH
362644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3627
362845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3629 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3630 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3631 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3632 because the tests only now provoked it.
3633
a444213a
PH
363446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3635 (this can affect the format of dates).
3636
0ec020ea
PH
363747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3638 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3639 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3640 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3641
b1206957
PH
364248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3643
364449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3645 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3646 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3647 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3648
26dd5a95
PH
364950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3650 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3651 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3652
343b2385
PH
365351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3654 autoreply.
3655
1c5466b9
PH
365652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3657 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3658 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3659 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3660 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3661 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3662 is going on).
3663
55ee9ee3
PH
366453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3665 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3666 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3667 the line.
3668
d38f8232
PH
366954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3670 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3671 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3672
3673 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3674 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3675 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3676 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3677 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3678 so I produce this patch..."
3679
3295e65b
PH
3680 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3681 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3682 is not defined.
3683
7102e136
PH
368455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3685 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3686 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3687 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3688 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3689
3ca0ba97
PH
369056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3691
c2bcbe20
PH
369257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3693 long debug lines gets shown.
3694
18ce445d
PH
369558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3696 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3697
1f5b4c3d
PH
369859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3699
3700 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3701 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3702 of $primary_hostname.
3703
b975ba52
PH
370460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3705 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3706 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3707 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3708 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3709 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3710 by change 4.50/55 above.
3711
3712 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3713 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3714 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3715 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3716 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3717 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3718 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3719
372061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3721 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3722 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3723 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3724
17ffcae7
PH
372562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3726 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3727
d95f9fdb
PH
372863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3729 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3730 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3731 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3732 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3733
86b8287f
PH
373464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3735 This has been fixed.
3736
60dc5e56
PH
373765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3738 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3739 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3740 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3741 the caching.)
3742
533244af
PH
374366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3744
a5a28604
PH
374567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3746 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3747 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3748 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3749
7e634d24
PH
375068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3751 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3752
3e11c26b
PH
375369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3754 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3755 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3756
6729cf78
PH
375770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3758 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3759 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3760 message there.
3761
00f00ca5
PH
376271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3763 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3764 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3765
c9bdd01c
PH
376672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3767 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3768 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3769 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3770
d43194df
PH
377173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3772 during host lookups.
3773
fe5b5d0b
PH
377474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3775 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3776
3777 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3778
76a2d7ba
PH
377975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3780 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3781 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3782 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3783 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3784 background.
3785
378676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3787 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3788
04f7d5b9
PH
378977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3790 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3791 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3792
bc60667e
PH
379378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3794
bb6e88ff
PH
379579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3796 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3797 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3798 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3799 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3800 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3801 process earlier.
3802
1e70f85b
PH
380380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3804 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3805 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3806 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3807 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3808
380981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3810 tables).
3811
4e01f9d6
PH
381282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3813
1ee1cef2
PH
381483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3815 "vacation" handling.
3816
6e2b4ccc
PH
381784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3818 OS variants using glibc.
3819
8e669ac1
PH
382085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3821
495ae4b0 3822
bbe902f0
PH
3823----------------------------------------------------
3824See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3825----------------------------------------------------
3826
3827
3828Exim version 4.44
3829-----------------
3830
3831 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3832 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3833 transport
3834
3835 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3836 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3837 place.
3838
3839 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3840 filter fails to execute.
3841
3842 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3843 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3844 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3845 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3846 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3847
3848 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3849 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3850 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3851 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3852
3853 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3854 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3855 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3856 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3857 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3858
3859 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3860
3861 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3862 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3863 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3864 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3865
3866 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3867 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3868 sender verification.
3869
387010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3871 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3872
387311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3874 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3875
387612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3877 ignore_target_hosts.
3878
387913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3880 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3881 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3882 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3883 "[x.x.x.x]".
3884
388514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3886 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3887 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3888
388915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3890 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3891 wake it up if nothing else does.
3892
389316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3894 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3895 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3896 end up negative.
3897
389817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3899 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3900
ea3a6f44 390118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3902
390319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3904 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3905 empty pattern.
3906
390720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3908 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3909 one IP address.
3910
ea3a6f44
NM
391121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3912 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3913 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3914 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3915 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3916 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3917
ea3a6f44
NM
391822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3919 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3920 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3921
392223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3923 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3924 $sender_host_address.
3925
392624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3927
ea3a6f44
NM
392825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3929 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3930 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3931
393226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3933 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3934
ea3a6f44
NM
393527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3936 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3937
ea3a6f44
NM
393828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3939 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3940 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3941 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3942
394329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3944 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3945 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3946
ea3a6f44
NM
394730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3948 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3949 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3950 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3951
ea3a6f44
NM
395231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3953 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3954 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3955
ea3a6f44
NM
395631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3957 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3958
ea3a6f44
NM
395932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3960 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3961 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3962 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3963 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3964 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3965 is going on).
bbe902f0 3966
ea3a6f44
NM
396733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3968 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3969 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3970 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3971 CAN-2005-0021
3972
ea3a6f44
NM
397334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3974 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3975 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3976 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3977 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3978 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3979 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3980
3981 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3982 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3983 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3984 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3985 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3986 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3987 CAN-2005-0021
3988
ea3a6f44
NM
398935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3990 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3991 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3992 CAN-2005-0022
3993
ea3a6f44
NM
399436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3995 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3996 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3997 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3998 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3999
ea3a6f44
NM
400037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4001 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4002 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4003 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4004 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4005
ea3a6f44
NM
400638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4007 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4008 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4009 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4010 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4011
4012
495ae4b0
PH
4013Exim version 4.43
4014-----------------
4015
4016 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4017 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4018 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4019 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4020 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4021 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4022 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4023
4024 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4025 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4026 the delivery.
4027
4028 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4029
4030 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4031
4032 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4033 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4034 to local_scan().
4035
4036 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4037 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4038 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4039 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4040 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4041
4042 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4043 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4044
4045 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4046
4047 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4048
404910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4050 header_sender only.
4051
405211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4053 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4054
405512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4056 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4057 affecting debugging statements).
4058
405913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4060
406114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4062 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4063 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4064 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4065 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4066 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4067 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4068 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4069 after the received time, and all would be well.
4070
407115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4072 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4073 condition in an expansion string.
4074
407516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4076
407717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4078 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4079 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4080 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4081 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4082 job under whatever limits there are.
4083
408418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4085
408619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4087 space).
4088
408920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4090 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4091 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4092 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4093 return path is set.
4094
409521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4096 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4097 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4098 binary data in such strings.
4099
410022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4101
410223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4103 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4104 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4105 failure, which is pointless.
4106
410724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4108
410925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4110
411126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4112 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4113 Sender: header lines.
4114
411527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4116 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4117 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4118
411928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4120 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4121 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4122 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4123 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4124 happens.
4125
412629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4127 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4128 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4129 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4130 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4131
413230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4133 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4134 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4135 1024.
4136
413731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4138 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4139
414032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4141 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4142
414333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4144
414532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4146
414733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4148
414934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4150 syntax error.
4151
415235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4153
415436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4155
415637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4157 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4158 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4159 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4160
416138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4162 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4163
4164
4165Exim version 4.42
4166-----------------
4167
4168 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4169 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4170 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4171 it was not quoted.
4172 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4173 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4174 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4175 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4176 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4177 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4178
4179 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4180 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4181 verification failure".
4182
4183 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4184 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4185 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4186 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4187
4188 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4189 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4190 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4191 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4192 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4193 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4194 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4195 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4196 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4197 treated as a timeout.
4198
4199 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4200 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4201 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4202 not set for Exim filters).
4203
4204 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4205 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4206 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4207
4208 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4209
4210 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4211 try to make them clearer.
4212
4213 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4214 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4215
4216 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4217
4218 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4219
422010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4221 only the Cygwin environment.
4222
422311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4224 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4225 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4226 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4227 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4228
422912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4230 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4231 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4232 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4233 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4234 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4235 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4236
423713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4238 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4239
424014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4241
4242 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4243 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4244 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4245
4246 To: susanne@some.where
4247
4248 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4249 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4250 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4251 of addresses in From: header lines).
4252
4253 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4254 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4255 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4256
4257 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4258 treated as non-personal.
4259
4260 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4261 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4262
426315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4264
426516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4266
426717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4268 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4269 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4270
427118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4272 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4273
427419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4275 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4276 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4277 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4278 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4279 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4280
428120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4282 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4283 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4284 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4285 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4286 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4287 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4288 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4289
4290 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4291
429221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4293 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4294
429522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4296 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4297 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4298
429923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4300 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4301
430224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4303 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4304 rather than long int.
4305
430625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4307
430826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4309
4310
4311Exim version 4.41
4312-----------------
4313
4314 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4315 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4316 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4317 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4318 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4319 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4320
4321
4322Exim version 4.40
4323-----------------
4324
4325 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4326 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4327
4328 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4329 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4330 socklen_t is defined.
4331
4332 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4333 always exist.
4334
4335 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4336 configured.
4337
4338 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4339 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4340 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4341 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4342 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4343
4344 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4345 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4346 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4347 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4348
4349 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4350 of flapping under certain conditions.
4351
4352 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4353 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4354 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4355
4356 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4357
435810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4359
436011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4361 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4362 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4363 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4364
436512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4366 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4367 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4368 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4369 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4370 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4371 preserved with the message after it was received.
4372
437313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4374 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4375 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4376 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4377 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4378 test suite worked just fine.
4379
438014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4381 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4382 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4383
438415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4385 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4386 string.
4387
438816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4389 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4390 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4391 does not fully solve it.
4392
439317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4394 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4395 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4396 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4397 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4398
439918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4400 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4401 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4402
440319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4404 string, for example:
4405
4406 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4407
4408 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4409 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4410 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4411 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4412 the routers could not see them.
4413
441420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4415 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4416
441721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4418 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4419 output).
4420
442122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4422 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4423 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4424 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4425 that needed quoting.
4426
442723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4428 was not being matched caselessly.
4429
443024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4431 backslashes.
4432
443325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4434 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4435 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4436 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4437 when use_sender is false.
4438
443926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4440
444127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4442
444328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4444
444529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4446 the configuration file.
4447
444830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4449 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4450
445131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4452
445332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4454 bytes in the message body.
4455
445633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4457 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4458 delivery.
4459
446034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4461
446235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4463
446436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4465 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4466 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4467 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4468 another IP address.
4469
4470
4471Exim version 4.34
4472-----------------
4473
4474 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4475 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4476
4477 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4478 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4479 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4480 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4481 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4482
4483 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4484 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4485
4486 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4487 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4488 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4489
4490 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4491 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4492 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4493
4494 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4495 for routers.
4496
4497 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4498 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4499 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4500 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4501 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4502 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4503 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4504
4505
4506Exim version 4.33
4507-----------------
4508
4509 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4510 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4511 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4512 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4513 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4514 default (and expected) setting.
4515
4516 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4517 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4518 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4519 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4520
4521 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4522 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4523
4524 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4525 in domain lists.
4526
4527 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4528 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4529 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4530 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4531 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4532 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4533
4534 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4535 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4536 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4537
4538 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4539 part (NOT match_host).
4540
4541 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4542
4543 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4544 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4545 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4546 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4547 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4548 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4549 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4550 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4551 the same named file.
4552
455310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4554 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4555 when Exim is built.
4556
455711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4558 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4559 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4560 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4561 a host name.
4562
456312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4564 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4565 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4566
456713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4568
456914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4570
457115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4572
457316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4574 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4575
457617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4577 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4578 before starting the TLS session.
4579
458018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4581
458219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4583 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4584
458520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4586 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4587 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4588 colon in the middle).
4589
4590
4591Exim version 4.32
4592-----------------
4593
4594 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4595 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4596 multiple configurations are in use.
4597
4598 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4599 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4600 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4601 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4602 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4603 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4604
4605 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4606 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4607
4608 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4609 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4610 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4611
4612 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4613 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4614 occurs.
4615
4616 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4617 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4618
4619 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4620
4621 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4622 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4623
4624 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4625
4626 -prval:sval
4627
4628 is equivalent to
4629
4630 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4631
4632 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4633 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4634 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4635 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4636 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4637
463810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4639 Exim's behaviour:
4640
4641 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4642 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4643 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4644 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4645 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4646 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4647
4648 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4649 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4650 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4651 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4652 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4653 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4654 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4655 string.
4656
4657 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4658 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4659 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4660 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4661 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4662
466311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4664
466512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4666 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4667 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4668
466913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4670
467114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4672 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4673 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4674 information.
4675
467615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4677 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4678
467916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4680 Three changes have been made:
4681
4682 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4683 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4684 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4685 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4686 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4687
4688 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4689 been restored.
4690
4691 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4692 the modified behaviour.
4693
4694
4695Exim version 4.31
4696-----------------
4697
4698 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4699 Larry Rosenman.
4700
4701 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4702 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4703
4704 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4705 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4706 try to track down a specific problem.
4707
4708 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4709 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4710 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4711
4712 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4713 warning.
4714
4715 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4716 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4717 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4718 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4719 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4720 some earlier ones do not.
4721
4722 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4723
4724 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4725 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4726 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4727 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4728 address literals are enabled, of course).
4729
4730 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4731
473210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4733 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4734 by a command such as
4735
4736 exim -f "" ...
4737
4738 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4739
474011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4741
474212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4743 remained set. It is now erased.
4744
474513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4746 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4747
474814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4749 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4750 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4751 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4752 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4753 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4754 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4755 appropriate error code.
4756
475715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4758 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4759 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4760 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4761 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4762 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4763
476416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4765 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4766 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4767
476817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4769 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4770 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4771 terminate the header.
4772
477318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4774 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4775 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4776
477719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4778 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4779 (4.30/29). In particular:
4780
4781 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4782 imposed.
4783
4784 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4785 to write a maildirsize file.
4786
4787 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4788 the transport, the new value overrides.
4789
4790 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4791 count.
4792
479320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4794 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4795 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4796 space or a tab.
4797
479821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4799 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4800 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4801 the fallback hosts.
4802
480322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4804 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4805 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4806
480723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4808 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4809 using a union.
4810
481124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4812 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4813 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4814
481525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4816
481726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4818
481927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4820
482128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4822 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4823 become corrupted.
4824
482529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4826 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4827 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4828 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4829 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4830 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4831 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4832 too great.
4833
483430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4835 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4836 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4837 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4838 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4839 incorrectly.
4840
484131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4842 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4843 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4844 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4845 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4846 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4847 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4848 cached value only when the same options are set.
4849
485032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4851
485233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4853 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4854 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4855 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4856 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4857
485834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4859 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4860 it is clearly obsolete.
4861
486235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4863 transport.
4864
486536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4866 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4867 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4868 times.
4869
487037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4871 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4872 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4873 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4874 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4875
487638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4877 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4878 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4879 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4880
488139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4882
4883 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4884
4885 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4886 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4887 2^31.
4888
488940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4890 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4891 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4892 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4893 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4894 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4895 $localpart_data.
4896
489741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4898 with the -f command-line option.
4899
490042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4901 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4902 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4903 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4904 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4905 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4906
490743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4908 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4909 line.
4910
491144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4912 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4913 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4914 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4915 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4916 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4917 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4918 buffer is too small.
4919
492045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4921 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4922
492346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4924 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4925 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4926 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4927 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4928 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4929 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4930 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4931 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4932
493347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4934 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4935 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4936
493748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4938 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4939 ACL").
4940
494149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4942 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4943 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4944 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4945 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4946
494750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4948 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4949 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4950 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4951 is set.
4952
495351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4954
495552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4956
495753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4958 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4959
496054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4961 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4962 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4963
496455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4965 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4966 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4967 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4968 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4969
497056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4971 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4972 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4973 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4974 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4975 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4976 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4977
497857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4979 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4980 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4981 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4982 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4983 the test of how many are available.
4984
498558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4986 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4987 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4988 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4989 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4990 new message is started.
4991
499259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4993 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4994
499560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4996 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4997
499861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4999 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5000 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5001 is no long logged.
5002
500362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5004 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5005 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5006 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5007 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5008 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5009 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5010
501163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5012 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5013 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5014 interpreted as octal.
5015
501664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5017 setting.
5018
501965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5020 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5021 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5022 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5023 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5024 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5025
502666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5027 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5028 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5029 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5030
5031 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5032 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5033 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5034 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5035
5036 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5037 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5038 is a bug fix.
5039
5040 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5041 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5042
504367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5044
504568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5046 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5047 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5048 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5049
505069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5051 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5052 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5053 supplied", which is not helpful.
5054
505570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5056 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5057 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5058
505971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5060 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5061 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5062 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5063 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5064 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5065 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5066 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5067
506872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5069 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5070 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5071 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5072 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5073
507473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5075 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5076 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5077 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5078 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5079 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5080
508174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5082 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5083 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5084
508575. Added write_rejectlog option.
5086
508776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5088 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5089 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5090 variables.
5091
509277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5093
509478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5095 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5096 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5097 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5098 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5099 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5100 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5101 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5102
510379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5104 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5105 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5106 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5107 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5108
510980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5110 Haardt.
5111
511281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5113 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5114 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5115 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5116 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5117 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5118 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5119 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5120 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5121
5122
5123Exim version 4.30
5124-----------------
5125
5126 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5127 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5128 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5129
5130 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5131 fixed.
5132
5133 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5134 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5135 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5136
5137 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5138 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5139 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5140 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5141 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5142 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5143
5144 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5145 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5146 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5147 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5148 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5149 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5150 the Exim test suite.
5151
5152 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5153 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5154 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5155 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5156
5157 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5158 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5159 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5160 specify it in this variable.
5161
5162 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5163 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5164 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5165 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5166
5167 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5168 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5169 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5170 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5171
5172 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5173 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5174 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5175 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5176 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5177
5178 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5179
518010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5181 they are logged.
5182
518311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5184 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5185 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5186 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5187 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5188
518912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5190 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5191
519213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5193 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5194 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5195 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5196 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5197
519814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5199 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5200
520115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5202 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5203 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5204
520516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5206 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5207
520817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5209 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5210
521118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5212 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5213 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5214
521519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5216 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5217
521820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5219 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5220 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5221 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5222
522321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5224
522522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5226 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5227 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5228 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5229
523023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5231
523224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5233 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5234
523525. Added .include_if_exists.
5236
523726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5238 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5239 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5240 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5241 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5242 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5243
524427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5245
524628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5247 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5248 this.
5249
525029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5251
525230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5253 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5254
5255 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5256 550 Sender verify failed
5257
5258 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5259 the final line of the response.
5260
526131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5262 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5263 all other user lookups.
5264
526532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5266 delivery time.
5267
526833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5269 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5270 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5271 result into an int without checking.
5272
527334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5274 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5275 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5276
527735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5278 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5279 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5280 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5281
528236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5283 correctly.
5284
528537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5286 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5287
528838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5289 to the empty sender.
5290
529139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5292 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5293 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5294 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5295 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5296 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5297 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5298 panic log.
5299
530040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5301 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5302 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5303 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5304 used.
5305
530641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5307 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5308
530942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5310 timestamps.
5311
531243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5313 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5314
531544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5316
531745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5318 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5319 logs.
5320
532146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5322 as soon as it is encountered.
5323
532447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5325
532648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5327 rewritten to "<>".
5328
532949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5330 recognizes a tab character.
5331
533250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5333 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5334 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5335 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5336
533751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5338
533952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5340 crash.
5341
534253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5343
534454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5345
534655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5347 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5348 2822.
5349
535056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5351 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5352 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5353 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5354 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5355
535657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5357 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5358
535958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5360 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5361 list (.included file names were always shown).
5362
536359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5364 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5365 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5366 root at that time.
5367
536860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5369 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5370
537161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5372
537362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5374
537563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5376
537764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5378 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5379 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5380 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5381 failures to open the logs.
5382
538365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5384 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5385 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5386 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5387 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5388 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5389 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5390
5391
5392Exim version 4.24
5393-----------------
5394
5395 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5396 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5397 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5398 change 4.23/1.
5399
5400 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5401 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5402 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5403
5404 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5405 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5406 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5407
5408 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5409 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5410 causing some misleading effects.
5411
5412 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5413 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5414 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5415
5416 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5417 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5418 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5419 queue-runner function directly.
5420
5421
5422Exim version 4.23
5423-----------------
5424
5425 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5426 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5427
5428 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5429 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5430 was always written to the default place.
5431
5432 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5433 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5434 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5435
5436 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5437
5438 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5439
5440 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5441 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5442 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5443
5444 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5445 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5446 must start.
5447
5448 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5449 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5450 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5451
5452 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5453 command line option is disabled.
5454
5455 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5456 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5457
5458 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5459
5460 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5461
5462 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5463 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5464
546510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5466
546711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5468 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5469 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5470 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5471 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5472 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5473
547412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5475 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5476 timeout.
5477
547813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5479 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5480
548114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5482 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5483
548415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5485 received was valid base64.
5486
548716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5488 name of the variable that was being set.
5489
549017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5491
549218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5493 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5494 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5495 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5496 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5497 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5498
549919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5500
550120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5502 nor realm was specified.
5503
550421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5505 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5506 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5507 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5508
550922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5510 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5511 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5512
551323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5514 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5515 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5516
551724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5518 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5519 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5520 some systems use these upper case variants.
5521
552225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5523 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5524 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5525 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5526
552726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5528
552927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5530 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5531
553228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5533 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5534 expansion variable.
5535
553629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5537
553830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5539 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5540 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5541 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5542
554331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5544 using it.
5545
554632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5547 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5548 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5549
555033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5551 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5552
555334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5554 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5555 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5556 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5557
555835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5559 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5560 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5561
556236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5563
556437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5565 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5566 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5567 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5568 aborted.
5569
557038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5571 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5572 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5573
557439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5575
557640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5577 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5578
557941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5580 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5581
558242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5583 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5584 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5585 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5586 when emails are that large.
5587
5588
5589
5590Exim version 4.22
5591-----------------
5592
5593 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5594 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5595
5596 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5597 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5598 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5599
5600 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5601 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5602 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5603
5604 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5605 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5606 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5607 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5608 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5609
5610 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5611 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5612 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5613 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5614 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5615 ever.
5616
5617 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5618 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5619 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5620 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5621 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5622 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5623 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5624 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5625 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5626 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5627 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5628 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5629 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5630 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5631
5632 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5633 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5634 parameterised it.
5635
5636 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5637 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5638 error should be diagnosed.
5639
5640 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5641 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5642 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5643 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5644 appeared instead of "NULL".
5645
564610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5647 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5648 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5649 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5650 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5651 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5652 proceeds).
5653
5654 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5655 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5656 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5657
5658
5659Exim version 4.21
5660-----------------
5661
5662 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5663 or receiver verification errors.
5664
5665 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5666 name.
5667
5668 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5669 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5670 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5671 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5672
5673 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5674 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5675 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5676 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5677 shouldn't happen again.
5678
5679 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5680 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5681 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5682
5683 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5684 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5685
5686 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5687
5688 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5689 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5690
5691 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5692 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5693 RFC.
5694
569510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5696 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5697 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5698
569911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5700 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5701 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5702 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5703
570412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5705 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5706 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5707 to define what should happen).
5708
570913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5710 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5711 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5712
571314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5714
571515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5716
571716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5718 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5719
572017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5721 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5722 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5723 structure in all cases.
5724
5725 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5726 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5727 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5728 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5729
573018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5731 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5732 domain name.
5733
573419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5735 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5736
573720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5738 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5739
574021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5741 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5742 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5743
574422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5745 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5746 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5747
574823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5749 the book and for uniformity.
5750
575124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5752
575325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5754 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5755 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5756 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5757 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5758 non-existent command as the problem.
5759
576026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5761 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5762 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5763
576427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5765
576628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5767 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5768 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5769
577029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5771 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5772 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5773 timestamps using strftime().
5774
577530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5776 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5777
577832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5779 transport-time rewrites.
5780
578133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5782 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5783 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5784 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5785
578634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5787 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5788
578935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5790 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5791 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5792 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5793 comma and a space.
5794
579536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5796 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5797 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5798 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5799 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5800 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5801 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5802
580337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5804 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5805 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5806 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5807 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5808
580938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5810 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5811 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5812 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5813 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5814 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5815 remaining text gets split now.
5816
581739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5818 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5819 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5820 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5821
582240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5823 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5824 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5825 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5826 $return_path.
5827
582841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5829 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5830 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5831 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5832 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5833 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5834 passed through if needed.
5835
583642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5837 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5838 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5839 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5840 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5841 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5842
584343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5844 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5845 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5846 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5847 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5848
584944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5850 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5851 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5852 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5853 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5854
585545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5856 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5857 noticed.
5858
585946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5860 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5861 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5862 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5863 mayhem of various kinds.
5864
586547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5866 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5867 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5868 the right test for positive values.
5869
587048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5871 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5872 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5873 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5874 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5875 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5876 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5877 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5878 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5879 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5880 envelope.
5881
588249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5883 module.
5884
588550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5886 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5887 forbidding it.
5888
588951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5890 the existing equality matching.
5891
589252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5893 dealing with inode numbers.
5894
589553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5896 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5897 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5898
589954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5900 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5901 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5902 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5903 local_scan().
5904
590555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5906 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5907 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5908 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5909 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5910 relay addresses has also been removed.
5911
591256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5913
591457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5915 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5916 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5917
591858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5919 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5920 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5921 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5922 processing applies to CR:
5923
5924 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5925 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5926
5927 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5928 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5929 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5930 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5931
593259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5933 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5934 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5935
593660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5937 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5938 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5939 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5940 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5941 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5942 arisen.
5943
594461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5945 program routers.
5946
594762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5948 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5949 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5950 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5951 adds:
5952
5953 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5954
5955 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5956
5957 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5958
595963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5960 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5961 not considered personal.
5962
596364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5964
596565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5966
596766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5968
596967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5970 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5971 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5972 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5973 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5974 header lines, and spool format errors.
5975
597668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5977 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5978 for more flexibility.
5979
598069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5981 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5982 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5983
598470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5985 Sabourenkov.
5986
598771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5988 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5989 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5990 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5991 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5992 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5993 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5994 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5995 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5996
599772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5998 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5999 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6000 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6001 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6002 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6003 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6004
600573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6006 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6007 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6008
600974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6010 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6011 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6012 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6013 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6014 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6015 instead of killing the process with assert().
6016
601775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6018 than Unicode encoding.
6019
602076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6021 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6022 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6023 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6024
602577. Added process_log_path.
6026
602778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6028 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6029
603079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6031 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6032
603380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6034 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6035 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6036
603781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6038 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6039 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6040 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6041 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6042 were applied:
6043
6044 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6045 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6046 as invalid.
6047
604882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6049 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6050 they will be used during message reception.
6051
6052
6053Exim version 4.20
6054-----------------
6055
6056The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6057
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